Features

A Lynching in Dadri

Ullekh NP

The killing of a man over rumours of beef eating in a western UP village brings out the worst instincts of electoral politics and casts a shadow on the modernisation programme of the Prime Minister

Piyush Pandey: Fortune Seller

Lhendup G Bhutia

The ad genius who has sold Modi and more

Body Shaming: Figuratively Speaking

Shreya Sethuraman

The battle against body shaming

Jihad Comes Close to Home

Tufail Ahmad

The news from Bangladesh should alert India to the threat from ISIS. It is real and immediate

Behold the Digital Deliverer

V Shoba in San Jose

Modi dazzles the smartest in Silicon Valley

Cast(e)aways

Kumar Anshuman in Patna

What happens when the leading alliances in Bihar are biased towards fielding Yadav candidates

The Futile Seat

Harsh V Pant

Modi should not waste his time on the UN

Rajan’s Symphony No 0.5 in Alpha Major

Aresh Shirali

The sforzando of Raghuram Rajan’s music is his half a percentage point rate cut, a dramatic easing of credit that could be just the stimulus India’s economy needs

Trapped by Triple Talaq

Madhavankutty Pillai

A survey reveals that a huge majority of Muslim women in India want to see the end of the unilateral oral divorce and other such injustices of the religion’s personal laws