Features

Boom to Bust Acquisitions

TR Vivek

India Inc forked out close to $40 billion over the last three years buying large companies overseas. But its grand global coming out party has left it with a bad recession hangover

Red Zone

Jaideep Mazumdar

As the Maoists assert control in this adivasi region, the West Bengal government faces a dilemma: to storm Lalgarh or not

An Illiterate Civilisation?

Hartosh Singh Bal

Rarely do academic quarrels enter popular discourse. But the latest battle has thrown up a gripping controversy. Could the people of Indus Valley read and write?

Questions for the Average Woman

Shubhangi Swarup

Panchkunwar Kairvat tells us more about her life and views

Questions for the Average Man

Shubhangi Swarup

Here’s Anil Kairvat’s take on movies, extraterrestrial life and condoms

In Search of the Average Indian

Shubhangi Swarup

We set off for what the Survey of India pinpoints as the centre of India, and found him. And her. Wondrously, they happen to be married

Clouds on the Horizon

Anil Budur Lulla

The Indian infotech industry is under intense pricing pressure globally. It may even have to rethink its very business model

I Tweet, So I Am

Kamla Bhatt

Keep it short. That is Twitter’s message for you. Yet, in just three years, it has already got millions talking

Reverse Swing

KA Shaji

In yet another U-turn, Jayalalithaa has warped the electoral pitch in Tamil Nadu by declaring support for the Sri Lankan Tamil dream of an independent Eelam