Features

Hate Wave: Look Who Wants a Riot

PR Ramesh and Ullekh NP

Provocative clerics, frenzied mobs and the widening fault lines of communal India

Amit Jogi: The Man Who Knows Too Much

Kumar Anshuman

Amit Jogi, accused, among other things, of fixing an election, once again finds himself at the centre of political turmoil in Chhattisgarh

Arvind Kejriwal: Getting Even With the Odd Chief Minister

Aanchal Bansal

A righteous Kejriwal makes the governance of Delhi all about one man’s whims and paranoia

The Great Unveiling That Isn’t

Aresh Shirali

As the boss of OPEC, a cartel that has given the world many an ‘oil shock’ in the past, Saudi Aramco is no ordinary company. Can such an entity be privatised even fractionally?

MoCapitalism 2016

Siddharth Singh

The political virtues of going gradual

When Push Comes to Shove

Aresh Shirali

Instead of governments going libertarian with ‘nudge’ policies, businesses appear to be turning more and more coercive. Taxi-hailing services are a fine example

Train to the Future

Kumar Anshuman

In Sasaram, Bihar, hundreds of students band together to nurture their dream of cracking government entrance examinations—on a railway platform

Clothes in Motion

Aekta Kapoor

As the defining lifestyle trend of this decade, athleisure has changed the way we dress, appear, move and feel

Nagaland: Where She Is Not Scared

Sneha Bhura

What is it that makes Nagaland the safest place in India for women? We travel to the northeastern state and find that reality doesn’t always tally with statistics

Plain Truth

Manu Remakant

Complex plots, religious questions, political drama, fairy tales and shifting versions of reality, vodka’s story more than makes up for its lack of colour