Features

Chasing the Snow

Rishad Saam Mehta

Temperatures were still in their 30s in Bombay when I got a call from Himachal—there was the smell of snow in the air. So he packed his bags and loaded them into his car for a 2,000 km ride

Doomsday Scenario

Shailendra Tyagi

What makes Iran important for global crude oil markets is its geo-strategic location, not its volume of exports

Back to the Dynasty in UP

Jatin Gandhi

The Congress launched its bid for power in the state last year. But at Phulpur, instead of taking that campaign ahead, it has regressed to its old ways

A desperate Bengal ousted the Left, seeking ‘poribarton’. Six months on, Mamata Banerjee is as vocal as she was while lavishing poll promises, yet ‘change’ looks elusive as ever. So, what’s holding back poribarton?

History of Exposure

Kalpish Ratna

The National AIDS Control Organisation has recently claimed that syphilis is close to eradication in India. While that itself is contestable, the real shocker is what the US condoned in the name of syphilis research

India in the Time of Gandhi

Dhirendra K Jha

Historian Ramachandra Guha has stirred up a controversy with his suggestion of a late 1940s collusion between the Left and Muslim communalists in Hyderabad, but the facts don’t justify his claim

An SUV Style Guide

Madhavankutty Pillai

What it takes to design an SUV: tens of thousands of sketches, 1,800 conversations noted on yellow Post-its, feedback from eight-year-olds, plus a trip to Kenya