Features

The uranium itch and other maladies in Seemandhra

Madhavankutty Pillai

The author travels through the strongholds of the YSR Congress chief where violence is a casual state of being. Will Jagan Mohan Reddy have his revenge?

The lost reformer of Pataliputra

PR Ramesh

Nitish Kumar rebuilt the state on the ruins of Lalu raj and allowed his hatred for Narendra Modi to cloud his political judgement. A cautionary tale of self-destruction.

The intimate daughter

Chinki Sinha

Priyanka on the stump exudes the charisma of her grandmother. A portrait

The surrender

Ullekh NP

Missing leader. Muddled message. And a Congress that has conceded defeat without even the semblance of a fight

Myth of the safe scribe

Garga Chatterjee

Is the threatened journalist a Pakistani curse alone?

Rum’s Rebirth: Don’t Swill, Just Taste

Manu Remakant

Don’t Swill, Just Taste The story of how the drink survived the fury of the seas and the cruelty of men

The Wonders and Woes of Foreign Funds

Shailendra Tyagi

Foreign loans could prove hard to pay back if the rupee crashes

A sense of betrayal, a whiff of hope

Madhavankutty Pillai

From Sonia Gandhi’s 13-minute stump speech to K Chandrashekar Rao’s nose which is more admirable than his words. Madhavankutty Pillai travels through a divided land and realises that the future of Telangana is hostage to populism and opportunism