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Summer Relief

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

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.

The Heart Money

A form of venture funding, which uses the profit motive to create social change, is slowly making its presence felt in India.

Business Briefing 08/05

The Ambassador Is Unwell; Across the River Charles

Letter to the Editor

Kobad Ghandy, one of the senior-most leaders of the CPI (Maoist), remembers his wife and comrade Anuradha Ghandy, the only woman in the Central Committee of the CPI (Maoists), who died in April 2008 of cerebral malaria.

India This Week

Restoring Lost Order in the Courts; How Deep is Your Prejudice?

The Men Who Feed and Fight India’s Maoists

The main accused charged for selling arms and ammunition to Maoists may have been working under protection of senior officers.

Jai Angrezi Devi Maiyya Ki

Can the enshrinement of English as a goddess help Dalits overcome their hardships? Good question.

Oh My Gadkari!

The BJP president has finally arrived, say his cheerleaders. But his arrival, be it by means of his actions or statements, has left many of his party members aghast.

Niira Radia’s Nightmare

For India’s most successful public image manager to suffer an image crisis is an irony that requires us to think beyond the obvious.

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