Features

How Not To End Up Divorced

Shovon Chowdhury

Adultery used to be the leading threat to marital peace, but then someone complicated everything by inventing the World Cup. Here’s a survival guide for those at risk.

The Big Bucks

TR Vivek

World Cup fever has gripped well-off, upper-end Indian audiences. Alas, Indian advertisers are looking away. They are busy chasing the TRPs of India-Sri Lanka cricket.

Maid in India

Manju Sara Rajan

Surviving the new Indian maid

Operation Mind Your Language

Pallavi Polanki

English grammar books in hand, young Afghans are in India to prepare their next generation for the linguistic challenge that comes with fighting a global war on terror.

The Herbal Fuel Druid

TR Vivek

The semi-literate ‘inventor’ of herbal petrol has a secure place in the modern Indian pantheon of conmen. After 15 year, he’s back with new tricks.

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The Rage Against Burkha

Sajeda Momin

In Europe’s furore over this garment worn by Muslim women, there is no clarity on why it should be banned, let alone how it gels with liberal values.

The Raj-Uddhav Snuggle Fest

Haima Deshpande

Efforts to re-unite Mumbai’s Thackeray cousins are beginning to fructify, thanks partly to a people’s campaign aimed at making them see political logic.

The Scare of a Red October

Rahul Pandita

They are on the prowl along J&K’s dividing line. Hardcore Lashkar militants lie in wait for a chance to sneak in and wreak havoc in Delhi during the Commonwealth Games this autumn.