Features

The New IITian

Siddhartha Gupta

How a changing India is re-engineering the DNA of its fabled nerd: a little too fast for some and much too slowly for others

‘Chhota Shakeel Calling’

Akshay Sawai

The IPL spot-fixing scam has again brought the disparate worlds of gangsters and reporters together

Time to Regulate Multi-level Marketers

Shailendra Tyagi

Amway India Chief Bill Pinckney’s arrest is an occasion to consider imposing rules on sales pyramids

Remote Mindset

Sandeep Bhushan

The Congress continues to spin the news in favour of the Gandhis, but why do TV networks let it?

The Loneliness of Prithviraj Chavan

Haima Deshpande

Is Maharashtra’s Chief Minister just too squeaky clean for his own good?

In Search of the Indian Hipster

Gunjeet Sra

What is it?

Remember Sachar?

Dhirendra K Jha

The sorry tale of how the Congress has failed Muslims on a key promise yet again

A Quick Study of Withdrawal Symptoms

Shailendra Tyagi

It is alarming that the mere prospect of the US Fed scaling its stimulus back can cause stockmarket convulsions

Grand ideas for a greener world

Jay Mazoomdaar

Environmentalism is often an expendable cause to a majority that fears economic oppression by a minority with delusions of saving the earth. But we need not take sides. From corporations striving to harness massive wind power along the Atlantic Coast, to the Herculean trash collectors of the Pacific; from a cross-country initiative to save the vibrant Mekong river basin, to modern China embarking on another, greener Great Wall, five exciting and ambitious projects show how all of us have an incentive to shape the future rather than fight it