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The Invisible Empress of Surrealistan

V Shoba

How Jayalalithaa still rules Tamil Nadu

THE TERROR FIELDS OF BENGAL

Ullekh NP

The investigation into a bomb blast in the town of Burdwan in West Bengal last month put the spotlight on a wider network of terror modules stretching beyond the border to Bangladesh. A report from the new dateline of terror

TEENS, SEX AND TECHNOLOGY

Aekta Kapoor

Social media apps make romance easier for India’s high-schoolers, posing a culture shock to parents

WHEN THE DON DREW BLOOD

S Hussain Zaidi

The best chronicler of the Mumbai Underworld, tells the story of how Salem plotted the murder of Gulshan Kumar

THE SILENT ELDER

Kumar Anshuman

Mahendra Prasad is now in his 34th year as a member of Parliament. He has not spoken in the House even once

GLASNOST AT THE ALTAR

Lhendup G Bhutia

The scientific temperament of Pope Francis is being felt across the reform-oriented Catholic church in India

AXIS OF POWER 2014

PR Ramesh and Ullekh NP

The three men who rule India

THE LAST FOSSILS

PR Ramesh

How the Left lost the fight against inequality to the Right

LUTYENS SYNDROME

Chinki Sinha

It’s one of the best addresses in Delhi—and one of the poshest and the classiest as well in its imperial elegance. Some occupants find it too good to vacate. We find out why