Features

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

To Catch a Tiger

Anil Budur Lulla

The tale of a maneater that has provoked outrage and revived a debate on man-animal conflict in Karnataka

Two Men And a Car

Mihir Srivastava

A road trip across Germany, Belgium and France

Whose Word Is It Anyway?

Lhendup G Bhutia

ISKCON versus ISCON, Tata Sons versus Oktatabyebye, Gap versus Green The Gap… as trademarks are shielded by the law with ever more zeal, are you and I left with no right to use these words and symbols?