Features

The Savings Shift

Alam Srinivas

Strapped for money, most Indians have sought a risk-return midpoint. It’s quite a mindset shift from the pre-2008 days

Situation Vacant

Devangshu Datta

There’s a job going at Apple Inc. Not the one its maverick co-founder just relinquished in favour of new CEO Tim Cook, the other one that involved second-guessing the consumer. Anyone?

After Nitish, the Flood

Dhirendra K Jha

In a scandal typical of Bihar, money was sanctioned to repair over a thousand kilometres of zamindari embankments that did not exist. Nobody knows where the funds went

The Post-Anna Political Arena

Jatin Gandhi

The Lokpal issue, as Rahul Gandhi appears to fear, has left the Congress at risk of losing its young urban voters. But whether the BJP will gain them is not clear

He is married with a daughter, likes to race his car, has 100 watches, 400 sunglasses, and almost the entire legislative assembly of Maharashtra seeks his ‘advice’. Bhayyu Maharaj, a stranger to Anna but the one who crucially mediated with him at the Government’s behest, is an unusual guru