Features

Maldives: Leap of Freedom

Omkar Khandekar

As democracy returns to the Maldives, fresh hope has arisen in a country that had lapsed into dictatorship. Omkar Khandekar reports from the victor’s exile camp in Colombo

Swimsuits: Bees After Mermaids

Sonali Acharjee

Invoking nature and culture, two designers present swimsuits with a life beyond water

Justice Dipak Misra: Courting Controversy

Siddharth Singh

The travails of Justice Misra are those of a soldier in an age that wants heroes

Memojis: Sign Language 2.0

Lhendup G Bhutia

Emojis, animojis and now memojis are changing the way we communicate online

The Possibilities of Grassroots Banking

PR Ramesh

Post revolution

Beware the Alarmists in the Marketplace

Siddharth Singh

Hard times

The Legacy War at Teen Murti

Ullekh NP and Amita Shah

Nehru’s fans and foes come face to face over who would uphold his ideals on an unlikely turf: his official residence as prime minister

City Slickers

Rahul Pandita

To say that Urban Naxals are a myth is a myth itself. But that should not become a licence for the state to suppress activism either

Mahua: Flower Power

Lhendup G Bhutia

Mahua, a humble tipple of the adivasis, finds its space under the liquor marketing sun

The Virus That Killed 18 Million Indians

Madhavankutty Pillai

Exactly a 100 years ago, a ship returning with World War I soldiers unleashed the Spanish Flu in India. The worst pandemic in human history is strangely unremembered