Features

The Worst Session Ever

Jatin Gandhi

Indian Parliament, once the pride of the country’s founding fathers, has been reduced to a sorry spectacle. And how

India This Week

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A Chinese Takeaway in Madhya Pradesh; Hooda’s Dalit Sympathy Overdrive; Who’ll Come to Beseiged Manipur’s Aid? Shooting the Messenger

Warren Buffett’s Fall From Grace

Sandipan Deb

His golden rule is ‘Never lose money’. He also said it takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. Has he finally ruined his own?

The Persistence of Caste

Hartosh Singh Bal

From Buddha to Ambedkar, some of our most outstanding minds have tried to fight caste. Why doesn’t it go away, and why are we so afraid to take note of it?

At 40º C if you can’t handle the heat, it’s time to get out of the plains. But where to? We squinted at the globe, stared at the map and called the experts to come up with a summer travel menu of places that’ll re-sap your spirits. Read on for where to smell the wildflowers, listen to the stomp of wildebeest and how to jump off an aircraft so you can hurtle earthwards at 200 kmph.

Not Just a Poet

Krishna Dutta

As Asia’s first Nobel laureate enters his 150th year, it is important to remember that Rabindranath Tagore was far, far more than only a poet. He was a painter, an educationist, a philosopher, a truly global visionary and a political activist of rare moral courage.