Living

Our Recurring Nightmare

Kalpish Ratna

The MERS-CoV virus, closely related to the coronaviruses found in bats, has moved from the Middle East to other parts of the world. The WHO’s Director General calls it her greatest concern

The Half Man

Chinki Sinha

Born with a female body, he underwent a mastectomy as part of his sex change. Now he struggles to gather the money for the surgery to complete the process

Home Not Alone

Anuradha Nagaraj

Easy to lead and never lonely: that’s life inside a retirement colony

Letters to My Unwitting Spouses

Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi

Remember me?

Sheer Laciness

Aastha Atray Banan

Emergent India’s market for premium lingerie is buoyant, no doubt, but here is how it could boom

The Fault, Dear Brutus, Lies in the Genes

Aanchal Bansal

Genetic testing for health risks holds plenty of promise in India, so long as enough people take to it

Meet the Freegans

Raksha Kumar

Some of them make abandoned buildings their home. A few scavenge for food. Most of them talk eloquently about freedom. What they have in common is an ideal: of living moneyless lives

In Search of the Indian Hipster

Gunjeet Sra

What is it?

Grand ideas for a greener world

Jay Mazoomdaar

Environmentalism is often an expendable cause to a majority that fears economic oppression by a minority with delusions of saving the earth. But we need not take sides. From corporations striving to harness massive wind power along the Atlantic Coast, to the Herculean trash collectors of the Pacific; from a cross-country initiative to save the vibrant Mekong river basin, to modern China embarking on another, greener Great Wall, five exciting and ambitious projects show how all of us have an incentive to shape the future rather than fight it