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Steaming Ahead with Piyush Goyal

Aresh Shirali

The Railway Minister wants to be the moderniser of the world’s largest transport system. He shares his ideas with Aresh Shirali

Alain Passard: In His Elements

Nandini Nair

For Alain Passard, it is all about earth and water, air and fire. The iconic French chef talks about his culinary journey in a conversation with Nandini Nair

The Paradoxical Artist

Rohit Chawla

Azadeh Etebarian juxtaposes universally recognised Western characters with Eastern elements

The Arms Procurement Syndrome

Bharat Karnad

Is the Rafale aircraft worth the financial and political cost?

Playing With Faith

V Shoba

With the Congress cashing in on the Lingayats’ demand for a separate religious identity, Karnataka’s caste politics comes full circle on the eve of a nervous Assembly election

An affiliation for a degree earlier denied to Public Health Foundation of India by a pioneering medical institute leaves many questions unanswered. An Open investigation. The story was further updated on March 6, 2018.

Nehru vs Patel: The Towering Two

Swapan Dasgupta

Nehru and Patel didn’t fight. They worked as a team from Independence to Patel’s death in 1950, with Nehru as the leader.However, these two towering personalities were never similar. Their approaches were divergent. In time, they would probably have parted ways. That parting didn’t happen