Features
Coastal Defences are Still at Sea
Ninad D. Sheth
Shockingly, wide gaps remain in India’s seaside security. The country cannot afford such vulnerability to an amphibious assault.
Still Sitting Ducks
How long do we go on congratulating ourselves for our resilience? Can we ever hit back at terror? Our intelligence and response systems are still in disarray, our shores remain extremely porous. India needs to get its act together very quickly
Anything but a Box
You can’t go racing in these cars but they sure can attract a crowd. Their maker had stopped displaying them at traffic safety weeks, as they were causing traffic jams
Hirsute Pursuit
Man’s relationship with his facial hair has been fickle all through history. We work out the current fashionability quotient of this bit of human foliage.
Mud on the Menus
Farm-side dining comes centrestage in America, making star chefs plant eateries in the fields, next to the ingredients
Random Notes on Pimps
Red Light streets are yesterday. Mobile phones. Residential colonies. The suburbs. Housewives. Students. The pimps show us glimpses of the changing profile of the sex industry
‘You Guys Are So Expressive’
The Finnish superbrand’s design specialist Juliana Fereira shrugs off comparisons with the iPhone and holds forth on creating a global language of iconography and the importance of widgets. What’s that? Read on
Balti Food© Birmingham
Restaurateurs across the UK are up in arms against the Birmingham City Council’s move to patent Balti curry
‘No Compromise on Leading Rebellions’
CPM General Secretary Prakash Karat on the difficulties his party faces in the 2011 West Bengal Assembly election, the threat from Maoists and his error in allowing the UPA government to negotiate a safeguards agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency in November 2007.
Karma Chameleons
Believe it or not, Raj Thackeray’s MNS is wooing Muslims in Maharashtra even as it attacks Hindi speaking leaders like Abu Azmi. The party spies votes in yet another divide—and Bal Thackeray’s Shiv Sena seems ready to follow suit
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