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Just Another India Story

Rahul Pandita

A deadly epidemic of encephalitis has broken out in eastern Uttar Pradesh. And the government remains clueless about its gravity

No Fashion for the Plus Size

Aastha Atray Banan

Large women looking to be trendy deserve better than the oversized tents on offer in India

My Experiments with the Emu

Anoothi Vishal

This bird from Down Under has started making a special appearance on Indian restaurant menus

With the RBI Looking Away

Alam Srinivas

Even a 1 per cent mismatch in receipts implies that there are opportunities to generate $2.5 billion a year in black money

New Take on Retirement Benefits

Dhirendra K Jha

A record number of serving and retired bureaucrats in Uttar Pradesh and Punjab prepare to contest upcoming Assembly elections in the two states next year

Two Million Bogus Students

Haima Deshpande

Influential owners of government-aided schools have profited in their name

Blind in Dantewada

Rahul Pandita

The standout feature of the State’s battle against Maoism is botched-up police action

Ostracised for Demanding Information

Shobha SV

The courageous struggle of three women to expose corruption in a remote Meghalaya village, even as long-protected tribal traditions begin to be held to account by the Right to Information

The American Autumn

Shougat Dasgupta

The wave of protests in American cities has been variously panned as leaderless, rudderless, purposeless... but perhaps America is rediscovering the messy nature of democracy