Features

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

BE WORRIED, VERY WORRIED

PR Ramesh

A section of the political class may not accept it but mounting radical resentment within the Indian Muslim community is a reality

Dynamic, Chaotic, Fragmented and Still Evolving — And Hard to Fight

Open

For the masses to be mobilised, the violence must be seen as justified. That means choosing the ‘lowest common denominator’

An Epic Obsession

Open

Bibek Debroy has completed a ten-volume translation of the Mahabharata in English. Inside the mind of an economist with a difference whose daytime job nowadays is the restructuring of Indian Railways and duties as a permanent member of the recently formed NITI Aayog