India

Jayalalithaa and the art of running the government from jail

Shahina KK

Jayalalithaa would be able to run the Government even from the central jail as she has proved her skills best in the art of backseat driving when a similar situation came up in 2000

Modi makes a salesman’s Pitch: Make in India

Kumar Anshuman

The strength of Modi is his dexterity in connecting personally with both his customers and his people

End of a Bad Marriage

Kumar Anshuman and Haima Deshpande

The uneasy alliance of BJP and Shiv Sena comes to an inglorious finale. There is nothing much to cheer about in the Congress-NCP camp either

Prime Minister Narendra Modi reaches America at a time when the relationship between Washington and Delhi is at a low ebb. Beyond the spectacle starring a man who loves performance lies a harder challenge: Can the enchanter redeem an alliance gone astray?

ROMANCING THE DRAGON

Ullekh NP

Modi played the indulgent host to perfection as he tried to bond with the visiting Chinese president Xi Jinping. Can the mutually suspicious Asian powers overcome the trust deficit?

IT’S NOT ABOUT MODI

Ullekh NP

But letting the likes of Yogi Adityanath go berserk can ruin the BJP’s dreams of reviving a hollow organisation and sustaining the magic of Modi on the stump

We Are All Chinese in Some Ways

Gunjeet Sra

How much China we take in our everyday life

AMONG THE CASTAWAYS

Chinki Sinha

In the valley after the deluge, the struggle of the living, the abandoned and the orphaned, is all about survival and coping with the loss. We listened to the sighs, sorrows and anger of a people still submerged in the memories of what one Kashmiri calls the ‘blood flood’

What happens when eggs go missing from Midday Meals?

Open Team

Schoolchildren in Jharkhand are being deprived of 20 million eggs every week. How? Well, owing to the interests of some private contractors

The Blood Sport of Malabar

Ullekh NP

As the murder politics of CPM and RSS in northern Kerala continues to seek martyrs in the most gruesome ways, ULLEKH NP in Kannur traces the origins of the violence to a martial tradition of fearlessness and honour