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The Budget Ratio to Wrestle With

Global observers may knit their brows over this brazen shrug at conventional economic wisdom, but India’s Fiscal Responsibility Act is not carved in stone

THE SERIAL RAPISTS OF SHINOR

Recently the Vadodara police arrested seven men for raping a newly married woman. They soon realised something startling—these regular householders had systematically targeted and raped eight women over one year

“AAP has become a party with a supreme leader”

Prashant Bhushan, an activist lawyer and one of the AAP’s founders, talks about differences within the party, structural flaws, and how the party has deviated from the principles on which it was founded

Revolution: A Love Story

Kerala’s most wanted Maoist couple are using fiction and journalism as weapons of mass delusion

Sinking Elephant

With its shrinking Dalit base and the possibility of losing national-party status, BSP is in mortal crisis

Something is rotten in the Indian Navy

Antiquated war ships. Delayed purchases. Power of middlemen. Political meddling. The Indian Navy is in troubled waters. An Open investigation

Nothing Is Sacred

Mohan Bhagwat’s criticism of Mother Teresa and the debate that followed bring out the twisted logic of Indian liberals

THE LAST ENCOUNTER

They were Mumbai policemen with a licence to kill. Now they want to be politicians

Here Comes the Gentleman Comic

Is AIB’s ribaldry representative of all stand-up acts in India? The next wave of humour may belong to clean comedy

Possibilities of Power

What AAP can do—and cannot. Two writers on the rhetoric and reality in Kejriwal’s Delhi

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