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Saddle Surrender

Aastha Atray Banan

Loyal horses and their dashing masters, a mystical forest and cliffs with magical views. Matheran, for all its flaws, leaves you smitten

Firefly Season

Shruti Ravindran

The surest way to recharge your batteries is to go someplace they won’t work

Making Mutual Music

Shailendra Tyagi

For the first time ever, India has okayed foreign direct investment from Pakistan

The CPM Has Split in All but Name

Dhirendra K Jha

Prakash Karat is openly aligned with the party’s Kerala faction while the Bengal unit is headed its own way

The national outrage over Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s handling of satire is plain naiveté. Didi knows better than to ignore such timeless instruments of destruction, particularly when she is sure to get away with her counter-offensive

Planchette: A Dying Curiosity

Sumana Roy

An investigation of the disappearance of visiting ghosts

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?