Features

The $10 Billion Dogfight

Ninad D. Sheth

The world’s top guns are scrambling to win the Indian Air Force’s tender for 126 combat aircraft. Who’ll grab the flying colours?

Those Swine in the West

Hartosh Singh Bal

Anything they breed has had its own global emergency. Could that be why we’ve been spared a goat flu scare?

The Do Gooders

David Lepeska

Working for a cause, making a difference, fighting for change is suddenly cool again. Thanks in large part to the new occupant of the White House

Lost in Translation

Sudeep Chakravarti

Peace in Nepal, or merely the absence of war, continues at the pleasure of the Maoists. For how long will this carry on?

High on Issues

Jaideep Mazumdar

Jaswant Singh is seeking votes in Darjeeling on the promise of his support for the Gorkhaland cause

Uneasy in a Turban

Rahul Pandita

Qamar Rabbani Chechi is a Lok Sabha candidate from Dausa, Rajasthan, though he is a Kashmiri. How come? Constitutional flexibility and a caste wrangle

Highland Clans Get Low

Jatin Gandhi

Family honour and boarding school rivalry take over campaigning

Milch Maketh the Maths

Shivam Vij

From the cool cubicles of the corporate world to buffalo distribution, Annu Tandon has taken quite an arc to enter the dusty fields of electoral politics in Uttar Pradesh