Features

Lady and a Pimp

Chinki Sinha

The story of Sonu Punjaban

Awaiting Disaster

Ranbir Sidhu

The gloom of a country that faces yet another election without much hope for respite from its crisis

The Conspiracy of Gunshots

Mihir Srivastava

Avtar Singh’s death may mean that some of Kashmir’s gory secrets go unexposed

Red Rediscovery

Dhirendra K Jha

The party may yet revive a project it had given up just recently—the Third Front

The Homecoming

Anil Budur Lulla

The DMK patriarch welcomes Spectrum Raja back to the fold

Dimple’s Dubious Electoral Marvel

Dhirendra K Jha

Her Kannauj bypoll victory is historic. That is shamefully so

The Vagina Wears Diamonds

Sonali Kokra

Mints, deodorants, diamonds, bleach—words we never thought would be preceded by the word ‘vagina’. How the vagina is going glam and why

Mumbai-based activist Arun Ferreira kept a prison diary during his incarceration in Nagpur Central Jail. We reproduce here a shortened version of his experiences and some of the sketches he drew in prison

Economic Reforms: There’s Hope Yet

Shailendra Tyagi

With Indian reforms so badly stuck, whining about the rest of the world is an abdication of responsibility.

The Space Idli Mission

Sohini Chattopadhyay

K Radhakrishna, the man who cooks up the things Indian astronauts will eat in outer space, also has made-to-order space rasgullas, curries, fruits and vegetables on his menu