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
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
...and why he still can’t make it work for him in national politics
India’s long-neglected health fruit is enjoying its moment in the sun
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.
The Maharashtra home minister’s latest bright idea is to punish oversexed policemen by posting them to this Maoist bastion
China’s earlier-than-expected test flight of the fifth-generation J-20 stealth fighter has caught the world defence establishment napping. Bravado aside
If the Bharatiya Janata Party is keen to regain power at the Centre, its latest party conclave showed that it wouldn’t like it to happen anytime soon
Why has the agriculture sector growth not eased surging food inflation
It is a reckless script gone so horribly wrong that a happy ending is unbelievable, if not impossible. A desperate mother seeking shelter far from her forest home in the fields to save her two cubs from murderous males; villagers living the terror of running into big cats amid standing crop they cannot afford to abandon; forest ground staff trying hard to avert conflict that could end all hope for the tiger family. This could well be a tragedy of circumstance but for the villains of the piece