Features

Magnificent Gogoi and His Flying Car

Avantika Bhuyan

Kanak Gogoi is a serial inventor who won a national award for a pedal-free cycle. But the real jaw-droppers are his airborne vehicles.

The Creative Indian

Open

Twelve stories of Indian creativity, and Open's top 50 creative Indians

Desi Cuisine Becomes Gentleman

Avantika Bhuyan

A handful of master chefs are transforming spicy, greasy curries into gourmet pre-plated masterpieces by using exotic ingredients and innovative cooking techniques.

Unearthing a Gory History

Jaideep Mazumdar

In 1857, the Raj erased a town of 5,000 people, in a bloody massacre, to punish them for killing six British officers.

Operation Cleave Ho

Dhirendra K. Jha

With a nod from the Congress, an RJD leader rebels against Lalu Prasad. This is an event that reveals a somewhat unsettling aspect of the grand old party’s gameplan to win Bihar.

The Farce of Talks

Rahul Pandita

What has New Delhi achieved in 60 rounds of talks with the Naga insurgent group NSCN-IM?

All That I Didn’t Know about the Andamans

Shubhangi Swarup

Hostile tribes, human safaris, earthquakes by the month, seaplanes, micro volcanoes, jobless elephants and really stupid tourists

Graph gazers say you should be pleased. India is nearing double digit economic growth once again. It’s boom time. But if that only makes you wonder which planet they are from, you are entirely justified. Here is why you are not as well off as the GDP graph suggests.

Revolutionary Road

Pallavi Polanki

A fact-finding team from the Human Rights Lawyers Network visited Jharkhand, a state where Operation Green Hunt is underway. This is not a story about what they found, but an inside view of such a mission.

Cuisines by the Sidewalks

Jaideep Mazumdar

When you have around 145,000 street vendors serving over 230 varieties of dishes—tasty, hygienic and dirt cheap—to nearly 10 million customers daily, it is a phenomenon by itself.