Features

The more things change…

Jatin Gandhi

Party president Nitin Gadkari has set up a new team to revive the BJP, but if the party needed a break from the past, this is certainly not it.

How the Blade Killed the Aftershave

Akshay Sawai

Or how the lotion stopped being the ‘mark of a man’ and the many reasons why it is only remembered as a daddy’s product now.

“We can’t disable our hidden brain”

Pramila N. Phatarphekar

Author Shankar Vedantam on the mental prejudice-graph which kicks in as early as age three, how it influences stock markets and why it turns some into suicide bombers.

Matua Millions for Mamata

Jaideep Mazumdar

A 12.5 million-strong sect in Bengal has ditched the Left and might vote en bloc for Didi because their guru wants them to.

The Case for Strategic Silence

Ninad D. Sheth

It is a matter of concern that our Defence Minister reacts to most problems saying it’s a “matter of concern”. High time he stopped being just concerned and did something.

One of India’s most powerful politicians is killed by his brother. Son goes on drug orgy, friend dies. Killer brother dies in jail. Now son gets married on reality TV. Here is a family that is stranger than fiction.

India This Week

arindam

Now, Prepare for a War over Food; Govt Sits on Rs 10 crore Fund; A Supremely Strange Petition in the SC; Seven Deaths and Our Civic Agencies Still Don’t Care

Business Briefing 13/03

arindam

Cheer in the Job Market, After Two Years; Now China Too Budgets for the Aam Aadmi

India Will Never Be the Same Again

Dhirendra K. Jha

Don’t underestimate its impact. The Women’s Reservation Bill could prove as significant as the Mandal reservations in altering India’s political landscape.

In the Name of God

Kabeer Sharma

The fascinating story of the swami who started as a hotel doorman and made crores as a pimp disguised as a Sai Baba devotee with a temple, ashram and sex worker network of his own.