India

The Affluent Society

Text and Photographs: ULLEKH NP

How emigrants from Madhapar in Gujarat have made it one of Asia’s richest towns

Modi and the Marketplace

PR Ramesh

The Prime Minister has heralded a less-hypocritical approach by the state to business and wealth creation

Flight to Capital

Siddharth Singh

Being rich in India in the age of Thomas Piketty

A Conspiracy of Yadavs

Kumar Anshuman

After blatantly favouring one caste in government appointments, the judiciary comes calling at Akhilesh Yadav’s doorstep

Punjab: On the Boil

Siddharth Singh

A stolen holy book. Erupting streets and offending posters. An inept government and angry farmers. Is Punjab inching toward the brink? Open follows the fault lines of a volatile state

Into Africa

Harsh V Pant

The summit is worth the investment but India will have to ensure that it remains relevant to the needs of a rapidly changing continent

What’s the Writers’ Problem: Modi or Intolerance?

Siddharth Singh

Behind the moral howl

Lalu Prasad Yadav: A Caricature in Search of a Cartoon

Shiv Visvanathan

Lalu Prasad Yadav’s political journey of farce is almost over

Sam Pitroda: The Original Whiz

Ullekh NP

Sam Pitroda relives his journey from the remoteness of dispossession to the world of digital possibilities

Going Radical in Kerala

Ullekh NP

Muslims in India’s most literate state are politically empowered and financially prosperous, yet easy targets for jihadi head hunters, including the ISIS