India

Attack of the Clones

CP Surendran

Your correspondent catches Varun Gandhi in an awkward moment to get a hang of what’s really going on in the young politician’s head

The Ganga’s Last Trickle

Ninad D. Sheth

The Holy River is in its terminal phase as public apathy and gross ecological violations squeeze its future. This is not alarmism. It may die sooner than you think

‘Advani has lost the moral stature to lead the BJP’

Haima Deshpande

MG Vaidya on what ails Advani, Modi and the BJP at large. Also, his set of remedies

Adopting the Muddle Path

Shivam Vij

The party’s conclave was intended to sort out some of its problems. Instead it seems to have compounded them

Wails Within Wails

Dhirendra K. Jha

Though fighting oppression in West Bengal, Maoists are busy oppressing their own cadres in Jharkhand. Dissent is not an option in their ideology

Once upon a Place

Rahul Pandita

The police orders are to ‘flush out’ Maoists, and since actual militiamen are hard to locate the State forces end up treating every villager as a closet Maoist. It all adds up to further alienation

The $10 Billion Dogfight

Ninad D. Sheth

The world’s top guns are scrambling to win the Indian Air Force’s tender for 126 combat aircraft. Who’ll grab the flying colours?

High on Issues

Jaideep Mazumdar

Jaswant Singh is seeking votes in Darjeeling on the promise of his support for the Gorkhaland cause

Uneasy in a Turban

Rahul Pandita

Qamar Rabbani Chechi is a Lok Sabha candidate from Dausa, Rajasthan, though he is a Kashmiri. How come? Constitutional flexibility and a caste wrangle