Features

More Hospitals, but Many More Patients

arindam

The End of Mandal Politics

Dhirendra K. Jha

It ruled the cow belt for two decades but is now headed for oblivion. An analysis of a social revolution that went wrong

Bloodied Bengal and Its Bhadralok

Jaideep Mazumdar

Why violence maintains its currency as a political tool in West Bengal

Fit after 60

Pramila N. Phatarphekar

Ageing is no longer what it used to be. India’s elderly have started defying the body clock in ways you never thought possible

Half Life

Rahul Pandita

After two decades of bloody conflict in Kashmir, thousands of women are not sure whether they should call themselves married or widowed

Sunday, Busy Sunday

Sajeda Momin

Belfast has shaken off its strife-torn image and wears the look of a boomtown these days

Married to the Stud

Manju Sara Rajan

What do you do when your husband is a bodybuilder?

Siblings may mate but neighbours must not. That’s the bizarre science guiding the Government’s current relocation drive. If habitat loss, conflict and poaching don’t finish off the tiger, crippled genes will

Joanna Gives Them Hope

TR Vivek

Fair play has acquired a whole new meaning in this post-apartheid tip of Africa, thanks to justice and sports

Where are They Now?

Siddhartha Vaidyanathan

Every year one teenager tops the IIT-JEE, probably the toughest entrance exam in the world. Overnight he becomes some kind of a celebrity. There have been only about fifty such toppers in the history of IIT. We went in search of some of them to find out how their lives turned out