India

Punjab Learns to Cope

Hartosh Singh Bal

Rowdy scenes recently witnessed in the northwestern state are pointers to trends that actually offer hope for the future

It Takes a Village

Jaideep Mazumdar

The horrors that this little settlement in West Bengal have lived through are explanation enough for the CPM’s rout

Rebel without a Pause

Jaideep Mazumdar

Mamata Banerjee may have always been mercurial and autocratic, but there are signs that she is aware of the responsibility brought upon her by electoral victory

“I Want to Enter Politics, but Saheb Tells Me to Wait”

Haima Deshpande

One of the most newsworthy political bahus, Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray’s daughter-in-law, Smita Thackeray, gets candid

Gone with the Tide

Jaideep Mazumdar

Cyclone Aila brought the Sundarbans devastation enough. The state government’s neglect has only worsened the people’s woes

Life Affirmative

Jatin Gandhi

Zaffarwal went to Pakistan several times. He says that Khalistan terrorists were puppets in the hands of the ISI

For Solace and Refuge

Jatin Gandhi

As her comrades at the Golden Temple complex dropped dead one by one, she was soon holding a rifle herself

Partial Healing

Hartosh Singh Bal

Kuki awaits news that might finally grant him his freedom—in part thanks to the daughter of a man he allegedly killed

They are Hardworking and Hateworthy

Avinash Subramaniam

The thing about hate—it’s about love, actually. It’s an emotion of denial. A defence mechanism. Hating a thing has much to do with coveting something about it.

Its Cosmopolitanism is a Veneer

Hartosh Singh Bal

Dreams have a habit of dissolving under scrutiny. Which other city can boast of Bal Thackeray as its patron saint? Mumbai always succumbs to chauvinism, unfailingly. It’s its defining feature