Features

His Inner Demons

Rahul Pandita

For 40 long hours, a house in a small village 25 km from Uttar Pradesh’s capital Lucknow became a battlezone. Inside a single room, a man fought two fierce battles—one with the police and another with himself.

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

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

India This Week

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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.