Features

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

Great Indian Money Illusion

TR Vivek

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.

Dude, there’s a bit of F1 in my car

Madhavankutty Pillai

It is expensive and time-consuming, but road cars are borrowing from Formula 1 technology to make your commute zippier. And then there is the reverse transfer of technology—road cars are ahead of race cars in many areas and F1 has to catch up.

Six Feet Under

Avantika Bhuyan

Esther Browne took up her father’s profession, and became India’s only female undertaker. Here’s how she goes about her job.

Non Argumentative Indians

Jatin Gandhi

If you expect youngsters in Parliament to rejuvenate Indian democracy, prepare for disappointment. Their record so far offers no inspiration.

Modi’s Troubles at Home

Haima Deshpande

If the Gujarat CM has watched the arrest of his deputy home minister with a sense of personal injury and alarm, it’s not without reason.

Where on Earth is Osama?

Ninad D. Sheth

The world’s Most Wanted Man was not only sighted last in Pakistan, according to the WikiLeaks diaries, that country’s role in the turbulent region has been getting more and more alarming.