Features

‘India Botched Up Operation Purulia’

Seema Mustafa

Peter Bleach breaks his long silence on the arms drop story. The official account has it otherwise.

Exorcising the Ghost of Geronimo

Shougat Dasgupta

More than the sobering effect an ill-advised codename might have had on giddy Americans celebrating the Osama killing, it was a reminder of the country’s own historical injustices

Marketing Brand Rahul

Jatin Gandhi

Not so long ago, he was a mascot of the youth. Now he wants to be seen as the voice of the aam aadmi. Great branding it may be, but success is harder fought

A Woman in Bangladesh

Wei Fen Lee

I only saw men wherever I went, and every young man was a hopeless romantic

A Cut above Modern Medicine

Atiya Hussain

A coin, a blade, and in the balance, life. How dais can teach modern medicine a thing or two

My Experiments with Facebook Activism

Himanshu Kumar

Forced by the authorities to abandon his social work in Dantewada, he tried his hand at online activism. The story of his disappointment

The Biligiri Rangaswamy Temple Wildlife Sanctuary in Karnataka has been notified as a tiger reserve. While this tag will fetch extra conservation funds for the sanctuary, it threatens to displace Soliga tribals from their ancestral habitat. New generations of Soligas may not be content with their forefathers’ way of life, but this forest will lose its soul without them. And India will lose one of its best opportunities to try out a model of coexistence between wildlife and eco-sensitive people

Or Try This for Corruption

Jay Mazoomdaar

While the great Indian middle class obsesses with cricket and corruption, an epic three-way battle is unfolding in forests across the country. It is time to take notice, and a stand. Because, more than anything else, the outcome of this tussle will decide India’s future