Features

Target of the State

Patrick French

On a chance meeting with Afzal Guru in Tihar

The Question of Reasonable Doubt

Mihir Srivastava

The guilt of Afzal Guru was not as evident as the State would have you think. And his dubious execution may not be the last such case

Kashmir Too Owes ‘India’ an Answer

Rahul Pandita

Even if Afzal Guru were not hanged, Kashmir’s integration with India would have remained patchy at best

From Hinduism to Hindutva at the Kumbh

Dhirendra K Jha

Like 1989, the VHP has used the occasion to rouse communal sentiment, which the BJP hopes will work to its advantage in Uttar Pradesh

Importing Coal to India’s New Castle

Shailendra Tyagi

Coal need not be thrown open to the private sector for the country to exploit its vast potential

When a Son Goes Missing

Anuradha Nagaraj

The story of a man’s search for his son who went missing in Manchester

For Anjan Sundaram, mathematics was a spiritual pursuit. But then he was consumed by the desire to collide with reality. And, he went to Congo as a journalist. There, amid the rubble of a country torn by civil war and in the company of its wretched children, he experienced life at its most exuberant