Features

A Matter of Time

Jaideep Mazumdar

Clocks in India’s Northeast may be in sync with IST, but they’re out of sync with everything else.

A Veteran’s Debut

Akshay Sawai

In Sri Lanka’s parliamentary polls, Sanath Jayasuriya is the star candidate of President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s party while his former captain Arjuna Ranatunga is batting for General Fonseka.

Rajinder Singh is a retired school teacher who migrated to the UK in 1967 and ironically started supporting a party that demanded the forcible repatriation of all non-Europeans. Now, he is about to go down in history as the first non-White mascot of the British National Party.

At Last, a Credible Deterrent

Ninad D. Sheth

With the successful test launch of Agni-V, India will acquire its first credible nuclear deterrent.

Business Briefing 20/02

arindam

Venture into the Dark Continent; Plastic Nickel?

India This Week

arindam

BJP’s Politics Takes on Deeper Saffron Hue; Highway to Trouble; The Farce Called Rehabilitation; Spare Shibli College the Politics

In Praise of Polygamy

Dipen Sheth

Unlike with choosing life partners, it’s best your money has many mates. Consorting with just that one asset class is pure idiocy.

A Fine Balance

Uma Shashikant

Typical investor behaviour is at the two extremes of either doing nothing or trying too much. And it’s hard to avoid these extremes unless you know what constitutes just enough. A primer