Features

Noel Tata as Café Revolutionary

Aresh Shirali

The rumour that Ratan Tata’s half brother Noel might head Tata Starbucks’ cafe venture has a truly compelling appeal

The World Wild Web

Madhavankutty Pillai

And a government that thinks it can discipline it by cracking a whip

Sri Ram Sene Hoists Pakistan Flag

Anil Budur Lulla

The odd use of a strange ruse to stir up communal trouble

Hypocrisy Over Housing

Haima Deshpande

Houses for former mill workers on mill land is a popular election issue. Why do politicians keep raising it even though the workers themselves have moved on?

Gadkari is Not in the Race for the PM’s post, Just for the Record

Jatin Gandhi

The BJP president’s support for Narendra Modi shows that the race for the party’s PM-probable is still far from closed

The Sting Operator Who Gave Up Anonymity

Aimee Ginsburg

The multiple exploits of Nagvenkar, the journalist who exposed Goa’s paid news racket, pulled off a prank by planting a fake Nazi story in several well-read dailies, and has held up a mirror to the media in other ways

General Deception

Mihir Srivastava

The strange case of a senior Army officer who nearly got away charging the country for his lingerie purchases

Stealth Revolution

Shubhangi Swarup

Muslim women of Mumbai’s Bohra community are secretly joining hands to slough off an age-old tradition of female genital mutilation

Cayman 1, Taxman 0

Aresh Shirali

Vodafone has scored a legal victory over India’s tax authorities, but what’s worth asking is this: why do ‘capital gains’ bear a lighter tax burden than your salary?