Features

Big Brother Is Gawking

Huma Imtiaz

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

Jatin Gandhi

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

Shailendra Tyagi

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

Pallavi Polanki

A quiet, protectionist tweak of India’s visa rules is forcing hordes of foreign expats to up and leave the country

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

Rahul Pandita

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

Why Money Loves Modi

Haima Deshpande

...and why he still can’t make it work for him in national politics

Amla in the Times of Blueberry Cheesecake

Pramila N. Phatarphekar

India’s long-neglected health fruit is enjoying its moment in the sun

The Autumn of the Patriarch

Anil Budur Lulla

The Radia revelations have turned a family soap opera, playing out under 87-year-old Karunanidhi’s DMK banner, even more interesting, giving the Tamil party’s succession drama a sudden new twist.