The rumour that Ratan Tata’s half brother Noel might head Tata Starbucks’ cafe venture has a truly compelling appeal
And a government that thinks it can discipline it by cracking a whip
The odd use of a strange ruse to stir up communal trouble
Houses for former mill workers on mill land is a popular election issue. Why do politicians keep raising it even though the workers themselves have moved on?
The BJP president’s support for Narendra Modi shows that the race for the party’s PM-probable is still far from closed
The multiple exploits of Nagvenkar, the journalist who exposed Goa’s paid news racket, pulled off a prank by planting a fake Nazi story in several well-read dailies, and has held up a mirror to the media in other ways
The strange case of a senior Army officer who nearly got away charging the country for his lingerie purchases
Muslim women of Mumbai’s Bohra community are secretly joining hands to slough off an age-old tradition of female genital mutilation
Vodafone has scored a legal victory over India’s tax authorities, but what’s worth asking is this: why do ‘capital gains’ bear a lighter tax burden than your salary?
Cynical Congressmen and supine litfest organisers script a dangerous farce