Features

In Search of a Cure for Taxophobia

Aresh Shirali

The Four Canons of Taxation outlined in Adam Smith’s 1776-published classic, The Wealth of Nations, still make for a superb set of first principles

Pathology of the Common Man

PR Ramesh

What went wrong with Arvind Kejriwal

Kejriwal, Amended

Aanchal Bansal

The new message: AAP means business

‘Kejriwal is no match for me’

Kumar Anshuman

Says BJP’s Chief Ministerial candidate Kiran Bedi, whose victory depends on how well she can get through to the city’s poor and its minorities

THE MYTH OF THE INDIAN AVIATOR

Lhendup G Bhutia

Did an Indian create a flying machine eight years before the Wright brothers created theirs, as a new Hindi film claims?

The Fall of Mani Saar

Ullekh NP

He was considered the ultimate political survivor. Now, Kerala’s 82-year-old finance minister and the country’s longest-serving MLA stands disgraced

India Is Elsewhere

Ullekh NP

Obama’s State of the Union address on 20 January reinforces his protectionist image. It would scare potential investors away from projects such as the Make in India initiative

Father, Son and the Double Helix

Snigdha Poonam

Suspicious couples and the booming cottage industry of peace-of-mind tests

The Great Big Indian Library

Rajni George

Rohan Murty launched his ambitious new venture, The Murty Classical Library of India, a philanthropic initiative in collaboration with Harvard University Press

“They would have died of laughter”

Open

Says Laurent Léger, a Charlie Hebdo journalist who survived the attack on the magazine, of his colleagues who were killed to Open contributor SAMANTHA DE BENDERN who finds in today’s France a threat to national symbols