Features

Dam Worries

Hartosh Singh Bal

Water is a resource Gujarat would have been flooded with had the Narmada project gone by plan. Instead, the state remains parched and farmers watch helplessly as reserves flow out to sea. It’s a story of alarming apathy

Deserts of the Heart

Open

A sole-searing and soul-baring trek through the unforgiving Masoala desert in Madagascar helps quell some of the restlessness that wracks our hearts

Attack of the Clones

CP Surendran

Your correspondent catches Varun Gandhi in an awkward moment to get a hang of what’s really going on in the young politician’s head

The Tweets of a Revolutionary Week

Rahul Bhatia

How the foot soldiers of a social networking website took the place of reporters on the streets of Tehran, and why this transformation in conflict reporting should annoy despots everywhere

To Button or Not…

Kabeer Sharma

Don’t sweat the short stuff. Follow these dress rules, and you’ll survive

Netting a Match

Pallavi Polanki

An intimate look at the lives of two working girls from Chennai who put themselves through the modern rituals of finding a groom on a matrimonial site

The Harder They Fall

Clement Augustine

Investment bankers have long been used to the divine stature they acquired during the boom years. Getting used to life as failure prone mortals is not easy

The Ganga’s Last Trickle

Ninad D. Sheth

The Holy River is in its terminal phase as public apathy and gross ecological violations squeeze its future. This is not alarmism. It may die sooner than you think