Features

BABY, COME AND SAVE US

Sunaina Kumar

The fear of extinction and the great reproductive panic of the Parsi community

Breaking New Ground

Harsh V. Pant

Modi seems to be re-defining the terms on which India is likely to engage with the world in the coming years

The Sena that no longer is

Haima Deshpande

Uddhav Thackeray’s party is back with the BJP, but as a significantly weakened force

Power and Persuasion on the Frontier

Ullekh NP

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Northeast push is spurred by political and military reasons

THE LAST ROAR

PR Ramesh

Is it the end of the Abdullah dynasty?

Not Just a Cock-and-Bull Story

Sunaina Kumar

The world’s most virile bull, still a virgin at six, is more expensive than a Ferrari. In a remote village in Haryana, we find the loneliness of Yuvraj more expressive than the reproductive business he runs

Going Viral in Kerala

Shahina KK

Over 150,000 ducks have been culled around Kerala’s serene backwaters, but given the environmental degradation of the region, it was a tragedy waiting to happen. The state has a fever—always

It’s Clean Business

Aanchal Bansal

The Swachch Bharat Mission has spawned innovative sanitation start-ups

AN INDIAN ORIGINAL

S Prasannarajan

Aatish Taseer’s new novel is a modern classic on being Indian

Another Day in Paradise

V Shoba

We travel through Andhra Pradesh’s Guntur district where 29 idyllic villages are set to make way for Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu’s promised capital city of Singapore-in-Andhra