Features

The Last Moments of Paana

Arindam Mukherjee

The dramatic story of Paan Singh Tomar’s death, as reconstructed from the accounts of two eyewitnesses. On one side, a former police officer who led the encounter that killed him. And on the other, the dacoit’s nephew and former gang member who survived that 12-hour gunfight in October 1981

The Inheritance after a Loss

Shahina KK

The curious case of the grandparents who want a surrogate child from a semen sample of their dead son

The Moralist

Madhavankutty Pillai

Michael Sandel, whose Harvard course ‘Justice’ has a cult following, talks about philosophy and the building of good societies

Chinese Whispers as Strategic Tools

Shailendra Tyagi

China’s record on keeping its inflation under control has been quite remarkable of late. What could possibly explain this?

Voters, Analysts, Leaders

Anil Bhatia

The behaviour of all three can be explained in some way by the insights of Behavioural Economics

She Is Not a Moron, She is Young

Alyque Padamsee

Getting under the skin of the real Indian out there

Why Even the Best Exit Polls in India Are Useless

Hartosh Singh Bal

Conclusions about caste and community vote patterns in Indian elections are all based on erroneous data. At best we can only make qualitative assessments, but if political ‘scientists’ were to admit this, what would they do?

Can’t the Congress Think Straight?

Dhirendra K Jha

For all its talk of a lack of regional structure in UP, the party is destroying the one that exists in neighbouring Uttarakhand

Now That the Easy Part Is Over for Akhilesh

Mihir Srivastava

Winning UP may be far easier than governing it, as the new CM will have to depend on his father to shield him from internal threats to his authority

From Media Hero to Terror Suspect

VK Shashikumar

Journalist Mohammad Ahmad Kazmi is in the dock for his alleged role in the terror attack on the vehicle of an Israeli diplomat in Delhi on 13 February. But he is no shady ‘freelancer’ working in obscurity, as the police are making it out to be