Features

Struggle for the Soil

V Shoba

The Adivasis of northern Telangana raise a rallying cry for land and livelihood rights

The Pitch Update

Ullekh NP and Amita Shah

WhatsApp is expected to replace Facebook as the online battlefield in 2019

The Surfer’s Guide to Advertising

Aresh Shirali

An ode to Old Spice for its current relevance

Paul Salopek: ‘Walking turns the planet new again’

Nandini Nair

Paul Salopek is retracing on foot the route our ancestors took out of Africa. Nandini Nair meets up with the adventurist of slow journalism

Separation in Srinagar

Amita Shah

Withdrawal from the alliance could give BJP control of the J&K story for 2019

Couch Protest in Delhi

Siddharth Singh

Chief Minister Kejriwal retreats from a losing battle

Sultans and Rajas

Manu S Pillai

The Hindu-Muslim rivalries for power in the Deccan were not examples of communal acrimony

Bitter Sugar

Madhavankutty Pillai

A crisis of oversupply has resulted in Rs 23,000 crore arrears owed to sugarcane farmers, a powerful political constituency that could make its discontent felt in next year’s General Election

Freedom of Speech

Siddharth Singh

The RSS is not known to seek validation by outsiders, but the furore over Pranab Mukherjee’s visit to its headquarters reveals a failure to appreciate its acceptability today