Features

Glass Act

Kabeer Sharma

Chunky black frames are back on the most distinguished of noses. It’s about non-conformism more than nerdism, and more than ever before.

The New Black Gold

Haima Deshpande

Suddenly there is a huge demand for earthworms, and people who are producing them are getting rich.

Tangy Twin Cuisine

Avantika Bhuyan

Gourmets around the country are slowly waking up to the culinary charms of Karnataka’s two most prominent cuisines—Bunt and Coorgi.

The Inheritors

Ninad D. Sheth

Meet these heiresses of India Inc., who are pouring their youthful energy into the family-owned businesses they have inherited.

Internet Rehab

Pallavi Polanki

Call yourself a Net junkie? Proud of your online network? Be afraid, be very afraid. Web addiction is recognised as a clinical disorder. And you need to detox before you log on to life again.

Salve Beats a Hasty Retreat

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Harish Salve takes cover as Open turns on the heat over his disingenuous note to the Supreme Court on a highway expansion plan through Kanha-Pench.

A Land Mine Waiting to Explode

TR Vivek

This could be independent India’s biggest scam, worth an alleged Rs 300,000 crore. From the small to the big, famous to the infamous, all are guilty of illegal mining in Orissa.

Surrendering the Last Frontier

Jay Mazoomdaar

The Kanha-Pench landscape is one of India’s best four tiger habitats. But despite objections from the National Board for Wildlife, National Tiger Conservation Authority, Wildlife Institute of India and Supreme Court’s Central Empowered Committee, a highway might just deny the big cat its best chance of survival.

We the People

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60 years ago, we adopted the Constitution and became a Republic. Presenting excerpts from some Constituent Assembly debates that laid the foundation of the nation we are today.