Features

Bypassing Consensus

Jay Mazoomdaar

The consensus is for an alternative alignment and restricted use of an existing road. No one agrees with the NHAI’s plan for underpasses.

India This Week

arindam

Is Congress putting its House in Order?; HC Judge Demoted; Trouble for BBC Anchor; Scare of the Bad Old Days; Don’t Let the Kids Chicken Out

23 Years of Lost Opportunities

Jaideep Mazumdar

Jyoti Basu had everything needed to make West Bengal one of India’s premier states. It is an enduring tragedy that he refused to do it.

India’s Superpower Delusions

Ninad D. Sheth

Some dreams can be dangerous. Especially ones that are not drawn from any sort of reality. Like India’s fixation with being a grand player on the world stage.

Tax incentives for marriage are witnessing a big political wrangle in the UK, with the Conservatives convinced that bad fiscal policies for married couples are to blame for Britain’s ‘broken society’.

Draw Yourself out over Drunch

Kabeer Sharma

It’s not lunch, it’s not brunch—it’s drunch. When you’re free and feel like stretching your drinks over good conversation and food for hours on end.

Crumbling Yadav Bastion

Dhirendra K. Jha

Amar Singh’s troubles are only a sign that a caste group long used to power is now finding itself short of options.

Temples of Modern China

Ninad D. Sheth

These marvels from China show just how far ahead China has pulled of India.

The New Gold Rush

Adam Molner

Gold coin peddlers in the US are selling the metal as one of three ways to stave off doom, God and guns being the other two. Rational investors, thankfully, remain calm.