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The Era of the Carbon-lite Plane
Shailendra Tyagi
Budget carriers like IndiGo and Virgin America are moving towards smaller planes that are easier to fill with both people and gas.
Quit India Movement
A quiet, protectionist tweak of India’s visa rules is forcing hordes of foreign expats to up and leave the country
Not One to Wage War
On 24 December, Dr Binayak Sen was sentenced to a life term on charges of waging war against the State, sedition, and for colluding with Maoists. I saw a very different man on my last visit to his house
Unsaid Words
A woman remembers her best friend, a man dubbed a Maoist and killed by the Republic of India. He happened to be her journalist husband
Amla in the Times of Blueberry Cheesecake
India’s long-neglected health fruit is enjoying its moment in the sun
The Autumn of the Patriarch
The Radia revelations have turned a family soap opera, playing out under 87-year-old Karunanidhi’s DMK banner, even more interesting, giving the Tamil party’s succession drama a sudden new twist.
Off with Them to Gadchiroli
The Maharashtra home minister’s latest bright idea is to punish oversexed policemen by posting them to this Maoist bastion
The Invisible Bird
China’s earlier-than-expected test flight of the fifth-generation J-20 stealth fighter has caught the world defence establishment napping. Bravado aside
Half Measures in Guwahati
If the Bharatiya Janata Party is keen to regain power at the Centre, its latest party conclave showed that it wouldn’t like it to happen anytime soon
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