Features

India-Africa: Reaching Out to the Sun

Sneha Bhura

A village in Rajasthan trains poor African women to harness solar energy

Into Africa

Harsh V Pant

The summit is worth the investment but India will have to ensure that it remains relevant to the needs of a rapidly changing continent

Parsis: Come Baby Come

Lhendup G Bhutia

The Parsi community, alarmed by dwindling numbers, has reason to celebrate as a repopulation programme shows results

What’s the Writers’ Problem: Modi or Intolerance?

Siddharth Singh

Behind the moral howl

Lalu Prasad Yadav: A Caricature in Search of a Cartoon

Shiv Visvanathan

Lalu Prasad Yadav’s political journey of farce is almost over

Sam Pitroda: The Original Whiz

Ullekh NP

Sam Pitroda relives his journey from the remoteness of dispossession to the world of digital possibilities

The Antibiotic Nation

Lhendup G Bhutia

How India became the antibiotics capital of the world and laid the wonder cure to waste

Going Radical in Kerala

Ullekh NP

Muslims in India’s most literate state are politically empowered and financially prosperous, yet easy targets for jihadi head hunters, including the ISIS

The Liberation Struggle of Bihar

PR Ramesh

The BJP stands to gain from a revolt brewing among Dalits, lower Backwards and a section of upper OBCs against the political clout of Yadavs and Kurmis