India

What’s the Idea, Omar?

Rahul Pandita

The lack of wisdom in the proposed J&K Police Bill

How We Did the Undoable

The story of a seemingly impossible feat: a small team of media professionals defy scepticism and conventional wisdom alike to launch Gaon Connection, a weekly newspaper for rural India. And now politicians as well as corporate honchos eyeing India’s booming rural market are showing interest in it

Spot the Killer

Mihir Srivastava

How leopards are hunted as ‘maneaters’ with appalling ease in Uttarakhand

Spare Us Your Shame, Mr. Cameron

Amit Baruah

British Prime Minister David Cameron’s visit to Amritsar was a poor scrawl in the visitors book of a country that has dealt surprisingly well with its colonial past.

Who Goes There? Friend or Foe?

Haima Deshpande

Sharad Pawar’s praise of Narendra Modi and his Gujarat model signals the return of his prime ministerial ambition. But it is Modi who needs to watch out

To Seize a Mosque, Invent a University

Hartosh Singh Bal

As elections in MP approach, the Sangh Parivar is invoking Goddess Saraswati to lay claim to the Kamal Maula Masjid in Dhar

17 Years of Solitude

Shahina KK

The psychological abyss that the Suryanelli rape victim and her family have been living in because she dared name PJ Kurien

Top 10 Emotive Issues

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Narendra Modi leads Rahul Gandhi by 7 percentage points among male voters and lags him by 5 percentage points among female voters on emotive issues.

Top 10 Governance Issues

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Narendra Modi leads Rahul Gandhi by 20 percentage points among male voters and by 3 percentage points among female voters on issues of governance.

Where Their Support Comes From

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What Narendra Modi and Rahul Gandhi score in an Open/C-Voter survey among voters based on gender, age, social grouping, zone or region, income groups and education groups