Features

Change of Guard

Anil Budur Lulla

The Congress wins a simple majority and the JDS rivals the BJP for second place, bringing an end to the saffron party’s vigilantism and its love of gods and godmen

The Trouble with Tribunals

Prashant Reddy

And why India’s National Green Tribunal in particular cannot do justice to its stated objective

Thirsty State Pvt Ltd

Shahina KK

Kerala has 44 rivers and 300 cm of annual rainfall but is on its way to acute water scarcity. A government move to turn water over to the private sector promises to complicate the problem

Apply Lessons of 2002 to 1984

Ranjit Singh Gill

The efforts Civil Society has made to hold Modi accountable must reach back in time to Rajiv Gandhi

The Place to Fix Dog Cancer

Lhendup G Bhutia

Inside India’s only cancer treatment centre for animals

India’s Jumpy Jingoists

Amit Baruah

The perils of getting carried away with high-pitched rhetoric against China

The Child Soldiers of Manipur

Chinki Sinha

Underage ‘insurgents’: tales of coercion and courage

Orphans Before Birth

Aanchal Bansal

In a clumsy attempt to regulate India’s booming surrogacy market, the Government has put at risk the future of a large number of unborn babies in assisted reproduction clinics