Features

A Spy in Pakistan

Pallavi Polanki

After 27 years in Pakistan prisons, Gopal Dass got a hero’s welcome when he returned last week to his village in Punjab. He was on a spying mission for India when he was arrested near Sialkot in 1984. Hard as they come, Gopal Dass tells his story.

The Men Who Dare Alagiri

PC Vinoj Kumar

Two officials show how it is possible to fight corruption within the system even if the Union minister for chemicals and fertilisers takes umbrage

Against the Odds

Aresh Shirali

It is overall uncertainty—an unmeasureable—that tends to bedevil risk advisors the most

That Day in 1986

Rahul Pandita

How cricket died for me that day 25 years ago

Referendum via Cricket

Avirook Sen

The gentleman’s game in Kashmir is not quite the gentleman’s game anywhere else in the world. Not when India and Pakistan play

It’s All Personal

Anil Budur Lulla

Few principles may be at stake when Jayalalithaa takes on the DMK in Tamil Nadu, but it is still a war out there

The CBI’s Odd Chargesheet

Dhirendra K. Jha

Why leave out Chidambaram’s initial advice to the PM in favour of a spectrum auction and his ministry’s shift in stance five months later?

Rise of the Middleweights

Adam Matthews

A new McKinsey & Co report finds that future growth for India will likely come from middleweight cities like Hyderabad and Surat, among 11 others.

New Shots on the Block

Shubhangi Swarup

Drinks that liven up parties nowadays have names hard to get your tongue around. Try slurring over absinthe and Jäger bombs, for a start

The Enchanted Bylanes

Avantika Bhuyan

It is not Enid Blyton’s English woods, it is an Indian wholesale market for toys. A glimpse of how Chinese efficiency works wonders with Indian enterprise