Features

The Oust Mayawati Campaign

Dhirendra K Jha

…has passed its point of no-return with the recent battle cry sounded at a BSP rebel conclave

Seed Capital

Lhendup G Bhutia

Meet India’s sperm donors

The Outcastes of a Liberated Zone

Supriya Sharma

In Abhujmaad, the choice Maoists offer is stark: confinement or exile

The Day ‘Caman-do’ Took Away a Little Girl

Sudeep Chakravarti

In Manipur, the police and Assam Rifles took an 11-year-old into custody to pressure her parents, suspected separatists, to surrender

When Shareholders Revolt

Shailendra Tyagi

Top managers of banks are finding their pay packets questioned by those for whom they are supposed to be working

Have a Heart

Aanchal Bansal

Too few people in India donate their organs. But there is hope yet

Sits, Shoots and Leaves

Lhendup G Bhutia

This photographer started taking black-and-white portraits of commuters on local Mumbai trains 18 months ago. An exhibition and a book later, he still can’t stop

When a Lie Scrapes the Sky

Suhit Kelkar

Niranjan Hiranandani was leased land to build affordable housing. Instead, he made flats for the rich. Now the Bombay High Court has ordered him to keep his original word

A Coup Made in India?

Mihir Srivastava

Despite reports of a sordid role played by India’s High Commissioner in the Maldives coup of 7 February, the Ministry of External Affairs retains ‘full confidence’ in its chargé d’affaires in Male