Features

If This Isn’t ‘Rarest of Rare’, What Is?

Jatin Gandhi

A father and his two children watched each other burn to death

Starbucks’ Indian Beach-head

Adam Matthews

What does Starbucks’ entry mean for the roughly half-a-million Indian farmers who grow coffee and 600,000 others involved in roasting, trading and other corollary industries?

Worse than a Daughter’s Death

Patrick French

A different view of the Aarushi murder case

The Bai-Laws of Mumbai

Olivier Lafont

Or the tyranny of maids through the eyes and experience of a Frenchman settled in the city

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