This is how Mahinda Rajapaksa, president of the island nation, orchestrated the military and political operations that brought down the LTTE. Find out how he did what previous presidents could not
The party’s heir apparent has seen his youthful experiments in electoral democracy succeed and is now ready to shake the party up
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A complexity theory perspective on the world’s current financial mess
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A farmer in Kerala opens a haven for young couples where they can spend time alone, away from judgmental neighbours and family
India’s fashionable young are beginning to show their outrage. But there is something comic about it
Parag Khanna has always been on the go. Open’s David Lepeska recently corralled him for a wide-ranging discussion. Excerpts
The Satyam acquisition epsiode is probably the kind of script Anand Mahindra would have written during his days as a filmmaking student at Harvard.