India

From Media Hero to Terror Suspect

VK Shashikumar

Journalist Mohammad Ahmad Kazmi is in the dock for his alleged role in the terror attack on the vehicle of an Israeli diplomat in Delhi on 13 February. But he is no shady ‘freelancer’ working in obscurity, as the police are making it out to be

India’s Own Mormons

Aastha Atray Banan

American presidential candidate Mitt Romney might have suddenly made this religious sect famous, but its members have been around in India since 1851

Microfinance: Signs of Revival

Shailendra Tyagi

Microlending was banned in Andhra on charges of exploitation. Can RBI regulation set things right in the sector?

The Third Front Daydream

Dhirendra K Jha

The Samajwadi Party’s emphatic win has revived an idea repeatedly proven untenable

Television as Political Theatre

Mihir Srivastava

...and the splendid isolation of talking heads doing election analysis in TV studios

Arabian Nightmare

Anil Budur Lulla

The trauma of three young Indian men who have been in jail in Saudi Arabia for the past seven years. Unless they pay Rs 5.6 crore, they could stay locked up all their lives. All they did, say their families, was rent a flat that happened to be the site of a scam run by its previous occupants