Features

Once a Comrade

KA Shaji

What does it take to start a revolution, then turn your back on it? What does it mean to believe, then to disbelieve? Former Naxalites on why they left the red path.

Business Briefing 27/02

arindam

Railway Budget as Her Manifesto; All Bets are Off, Almost

India This Week

arindam

New Faces in the Prime Minister’s Office; Not Counting Chickens; Munnar, a Paradise Lost

Whispers of a Witch-hunt

Dhirendra K. Jha

With searchlights out for ‘bourgeois tendencies’ within the party, the CPM drives one of its own leaders to his death.

Sangh’s e-Sevaks

Anil B. Lulla

They are young go-getting infotech professionals virtually chained to their desktop computers. But the RSS has given them a cause beyond their careers.

The BJP Ultimatum

Jatin Gandhi

The principal opposition party’s Indore conclave signalled an RSS-induced resolve to put their house in order and broaden the party’s vote base.

Jhunjhunwala’s Real Bull Run

Manju Sara Rajan

It took 17 years for him to become a father and it beat anything that all his thousands of crores could buy.

A Matter of Time

Jaideep Mazumdar

Clocks in India’s Northeast may be in sync with IST, but they’re out of sync with everything else.

A Veteran’s Debut

Akshay Sawai

In Sri Lanka’s parliamentary polls, Sanath Jayasuriya is the star candidate of President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s party while his former captain Arjuna Ranatunga is batting for General Fonseka.

Rajinder Singh is a retired school teacher who migrated to the UK in 1967 and ironically started supporting a party that demanded the forcible repatriation of all non-Europeans. Now, he is about to go down in history as the first non-White mascot of the British National Party.