Features

The Rebel

Rahul Pandita

She was born into privilege and could easily have chosen the easy life. But Anuradha Ghandy chose guns over roses to fight for the dispossessed.

Savour the Spread

Avantika Bhuyan

Drool alert: plush standalone eateries in the metros are making the once-humble buffet much hipper than it ever was.

Purring Tiger, Raging Dragon

Jaideep Mazumdar

Will history repeat itself? If India has learnt little from the Himalayan Blunder of 1962, it easily could—to our horror. China’s designs on the country are not benign.

The Business of YSR’s Legacy

TR Vivek

Politics has been really cosy with business in Andhra Pradesh, and that’s the story of the succession drama under way after YSR’s demise.

The Loneliness of Buddhadeb

Jaideep Mazumdar

Can Bengal’s poet-playwright Chief Minister pull out of his current depression in time for the looming Assembly elections?

Sugar Shudders

Haima Deshpande

A national sugar crisis. An Assembly election in Maharashtra. For better or worse, they’re closely entwined.

The ABC of OBC Counts

Shivam Vij

Counting SC and ST numbers helps implement programmes for them better.

How about Leaving the CBI Alone?

Jatin Gandhi

Home Minister Chidambaram’s red card on arbitrary transfers of police officers.

India This Week

arindam

Pranab’s overdrive on austerity; Bollywood composer Vishal Dadlani’s take on Shivaji; and Anil Ambani’s spat with the media

The Government Is Richer than It Thinks

Ninad D. Sheth

Disinvestment has not turned out badly at all for the government. Will we see any more of the 159 profitable central PSUs getting listed any time soon?