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The NCP’s Waning Relevance

Sharad Pawar’s inability to part ways with the party from which he split 13 years ago has diminished both his regional and national prospects

Eye, Me, Myself

What selfies say about people

The Lineswomen of Maharashtra

The state’s electricity utility has hired women for a job some consider too perilous for them

Cancer is as Natural as Ageing

Why carcinogens are not as scary as made out to be. A review of a book on the dreaded disease by George Johnson, followed by an interview with him

Modi, Media and Money

The interplay of these three ‘M’s is doing Indian democracy a gross disfavour

Why Stock Brokers Have Gone Broke

Retail investors have vanished at least partly because stock brokers have lost their trust

Karnataka’s Bridal Brouhaha

A scheme for Muslim women gives the opposition pre-poll ammunition against the Congress in an electorally crucial state

Why?

What makes neighbours murder and brutalise each other? The portrait of two warring groups in Muzaffarnagar, UP, illuminates the ancient question

Gold Fables

From dead kings who come riding at night to snakes that guard hidden treasure, all the myths come tumbling out in the village of Daundiya Kheda as the ASI looks for 1,000 tonnes of gold

An Airline of the South Called Air Costa

Regional airlines have all been failures in India, but Air Costa hopes to beat the pattern

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