Features

The Story of Their Experiments with Gandhi

Rahul Pandita

How a team of strategists has been hard at work dipping into the past and playing the media to project Anna Hazare as the new Mahatma

The Rare Earth Scare

Shailendra Tyagi

Crunch time: China, which controls 97 per cent of rare earth supplies, has restricted their exports

The Reddys and Their Sushma Thaayi

Anil Budur Lulla

The Bellary brothers once compared themselves to the Vijayanagar kings of yore. But even their ‘mother’ has deserted them now that their reign is over

The Changing Colour of Red

Sakshi Lee

A clutch of apparently disconnected events is pointing at deep churn at the top in China

China Plumbs Indian Depths

Anil Budur Lulla

India’s northern neighbour has won a seabed exploration bid in the Indian Ocean. Is this part of a grand design to encircle us?

Rahul’s New Role

Jatin Gandhi

The 41-year-old Gandhi as Congress Working President? The murmurs have begun again

The Beginning of the End?

Hartosh Singh Bal

At every step, senior Congress leaders have been outmanoeuvred by Anna’s aides

The Israeli Summer

Aimee Ginsburg

After the bullets and blood of the Arab Spring, The Israeli Summer seems almost fluffy, but the protestors are dead serious. So what is this all about?

The Mysterious World of Global Investors

Alam Srinivas

How they control Indian firms with minority stakes

Radio Gaga

Rahul Bhatia

It was a sad day for music fans when WorldSpace closed its India operations in 2009. Thankfully, it wasn’t just another job for some of its employees—they are set to revive the service