Features

Sorry, Kashmir Is Happy

Manu Joseph

Why is it obscene to accept that a historically wounded people are ready to move on?

The Twain Do Not Meat

Lhendup G Bhutia

Tandoori versus asado. To visiting Argentinean polo players, taken out for lunch by Open, it’s a no-contest

Vilasrao’s Dead End

Haima Deshpande

Former chief minister of Maharashtra Vilasrao Deshmukh now has a Supreme Court censure and CAG report to live down. But will this finally spell the end of his political run?

Editor-in-Chief of Bihar

Dhirendra K Jha

How an image-fixated chief minister has bent the state’s media to his will

Politburo Puzzle

Shahina KK

Why VS Achuthanandan was left out of the CPM’s apex body

The Red Abduction Factory

Mihir Srivastava

Abductions have become the standard operating procedure of Naxal-Maoist insurgents, even as the Government flounders to formulate its own

Keep Your Eyes on the Road…

Aresh Shirali

A government panel is keen on yanking people off their mobikes and out of their cars, and stuffing them instead into buses and metro tubes

Confusion at the Pump

Shailendra Tyagi

Oil companies have asked the Government to re-regulate petrol prices so that it picks up half the tab for its populism

Bardhan Makes a Reluctant Exit

Dhirendra K Jha

The CPI veteran known for his penchant for power has stepped down, but not before a surprise bid to change the party constitution

The Mind of a Self-Immolator

Lhendup G Bhutia

On 22 March, Jamphel Yeshi, a 27-year-old Tibetan, burnt himself to death in protest against Chinese oppression in Tibet. He had decided on it 10 days ago. What happened in between?