India

PRAISE THE LOST SHEEP

Shahina KK

It is not easy to be a former priest or nun in Kerala

Pathology of the Common Man

PR Ramesh

What went wrong with Arvind Kejriwal

Kejriwal, Amended

Aanchal Bansal

The new message: AAP means business

‘Kejriwal is no match for me’

Kumar Anshuman

Says BJP’s Chief Ministerial candidate Kiran Bedi, whose victory depends on how well she can get through to the city’s poor and its minorities

THE MYTH OF THE INDIAN AVIATOR

Lhendup G Bhutia

Did an Indian create a flying machine eight years before the Wright brothers created theirs, as a new Hindi film claims?

The Fall of Mani Saar

Ullekh NP

He was considered the ultimate political survivor. Now, Kerala’s 82-year-old finance minister and the country’s longest-serving MLA stands disgraced

India Is Elsewhere

Ullekh NP

Obama’s State of the Union address on 20 January reinforces his protectionist image. It would scare potential investors away from projects such as the Make in India initiative

The Great Big Indian Library

Rajni George

Rohan Murty launched his ambitious new venture, The Murty Classical Library of India, a philanthropic initiative in collaboration with Harvard University Press

BE WORRIED, VERY WORRIED

PR Ramesh

A section of the political class may not accept it but mounting radical resentment within the Indian Muslim community is a reality

Bibek Debroy has completed a ten-volume translation of the Mahabharata in English. Inside the mind of an economist with a difference whose daytime job nowadays is the restructuring of Indian Railways and duties as a permanent member of the recently formed NITI Aayog