Features

“If Something Slips off, Call Me”

Aastha Atray Banan

Impressions of a fly on the wall at the Lakme Fashion Week in Mumbai

Return to Libya

AJ Thomas

About a fortnight ago, the country celebrated the first anniversary of its revolution. An Indian professor, now back at his university there after a gap of ten months, is pleased to see his students who had turned into armed revolutionaries get back to their books again. His report

India’s Own Mormons

Aastha Atray Banan

American presidential candidate Mitt Romney might have suddenly made this religious sect famous, but its members have been around in India since 1851

Microfinance: Signs of Revival

Shailendra Tyagi

Microlending was banned in Andhra on charges of exploitation. Can RBI regulation set things right in the sector?

The Third Front Daydream

Dhirendra K Jha

The Samajwadi Party’s emphatic win has revived an idea repeatedly proven untenable

Television as Political Theatre

Mihir Srivastava

...and the splendid isolation of talking heads doing election analysis in TV studios

Child’s Play Reinvented

Anuradha Nagaraj

Tired of the same old toys, Bangalore’s Toy Lab is changing the game with interesting innovations

Naked Show of Strength

Vijai Maheshwari

India turns the heat on topless Ukrainian feminists

Arabian Nightmare

Anil Budur Lulla

The trauma of three young Indian men who have been in jail in Saudi Arabia for the past seven years. Unless they pay Rs 5.6 crore, they could stay locked up all their lives. All they did, say their families, was rent a flat that happened to be the site of a scam run by its previous occupants

You Might Be Dangerous

Kalpish Ratna

Shoot on sight, and don’t think twice. That seems to be the credo of the Italians on board the Enrica Lexie, unchanged since the European intrusion into our waters in 1498