Features

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

The Red Hibiscus Revolution

AJ Thomas

My students in Libya were carefree, fun-loving, style-conscious and seemingly lazy. Then the revolution happened, and they took to guns and capturing towns