Features

Let’s Do as Cavemen Do

Shruti Ravindran

John Durant promises to restore you to the pink of health, caveman-style

The Inconvenient Chief Minister

Mihir Srivastava

Both the BJP and Congress want to see Kejriwal fail, but he has a trump card they dare not ignore

The BJP’s Tea Party

Haima Deshpande

With the aid of Modi’s story of his days as a tea vendor, the state party unit has been wooing the chaiwallahs of South Mumbai in earnest

Out to Save Holy Cows

Omkar Khandekar

After police turned up with VHP activists to arrest local butchers for slaughtering cows, a Muslim group in a Gujarat village launched a cow protection campaign

The War on Microbes

Kalpish Ratna

It is time to call a truce—and get to know the microscopic animals inside the zoo that’s the human body

The Great Betrayal of Bihar’s Landless

Dhirendra K Jha

It may yet return to haunt the country, this failure of Vinoba Bhave’s Bhoodan land reforms

So, Do You Need Modi?

Manu Joseph

The arrival of Arvind Kejriwal eliminates the need for the urban educated middle-class to negotiate a compromise with its own values

Modi and Muslims

Rahul Pandita

With his eye on 2014, the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate is reaching out to Muslims like never before

The YouTube Guru of Small Things

Omkar Khandekar

Meet Wilbur Sargunaraj, the man who showed the world how to use the Eastern toilet

Between Periamma and a Home in Italy

Anuradha Nagaraj

Two orphaned boys found a home in Italy when their children’s home in Bangalore put them up for adoption. Soon after, the boys’ maternal aunt and her husband lodged a case, protesting they had not been consulted