Features

The Future of Meat

Vijai Maheshwari

Coming soon: genetically engineered meat in a supermarket near you

Condom Madam

Priyanka Borpujari

How one sex worker reformed a brothel in Sangli by counting condoms collected in a bucket

That Film of Memory

Rahul Pandita

...and what I learnt of life, reporting from Bastar and other Maoist areas

He is accused of having abducted and killed lawyer Jaleel Andrabi in Srinagar in 1996. He has also been named for the murder of at least a dozen other men. He fled the country, and was back in the news after his wife reported him for domestic violence in California in February this year. A court has ordered the Ministry of External Affairs to ensure his extradition, but no action is being taken. Speaking to Open, the Major says if his extradition is actually initiated, he will never be allowed to return alive, he knows too much and he will not keep quiet

The Will of the Trust

Anil Budur Lulla

Sathya Sai Baba wrote in his own hand that Satyajit, his caregiver, be included in the Central Trust. But the trust members are unwilling to

The Munde Muddle

Haima Deshpande

Why the OBC leader wants to leave the BJP, but can’t

How to Bewitch a Cannes Jury

Aresh Shirali

While it could get a few Indians frothy at the wrong end, it’s pretty obvious why the jury at Cannes loves Gillette’s campaign.

‘We are lucky not to have seen a dirty bomb’

Madhavankutty Pillai

Peace Nobel laureate ElBaradei on the dangers and inequities of the nuclear world. And why he admires Manmohan Singh so much.

Left Unity Makes Sense

Dhirendra K. Jha

The CPM and CPI need to leave doctrines aside and face practical realities

The Murky World of Crime Reporting

Haima Deshpande

Mumbai’s police-underworld-media nexus is as venal as it is formidable. On his chosen turf, J Dey’s reputation of integrity would have been enough to make him a marked man