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If This Isn’t ‘Rarest of Rare’, What Is?
Jatin Gandhi
A father and his two children watched each other burn to death
Starbucks’ Indian Beach-head
What does Starbucks’ entry mean for the roughly half-a-million Indian farmers who grow coffee and 600,000 others involved in roasting, trading and other corollary industries?
The Bai-Laws of Mumbai
Or the tyranny of maids through the eyes and experience of a Frenchman settled in the city
Big Brother Is Gawking
Pakistani actress Veena Malik leaves her country’s clergy struck and the Twitterati cheering with a bristling defence of her appearance on Indian reality TV show Bigg Boss
Cloud over Kargil
Even after more than a decade of the Kargil War, uneasy questions remain unanswered. Why was the Pakistan army allowed in the first place to intrude into areas under the command of the Indian Army?
The Era of the Carbon-lite Plane
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
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