World

Meet Mrs Malik

Rahul Pandita

For all her mushiness, how did Pakistan-born Mushaal Mullick fall in love with Kashmiri militant-turned-separatist leader Yasin Malik? The inside story.

Convenient Untruths

Open

There are gaping holes in the armour of Al Gore’s Nobel Prize-winning global warming advocacy.

It was presented as fact. The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, led by India’s very own RK Pachauri, even announced a consensus on it. The world was heating up and humans were to blame. A pack of lies, it turns out.

Till Taxes Do Us Part

Sajeda Momin

Tax incentives for marriage are witnessing a big political wrangle in the UK, with the Conservatives convinced that bad fiscal policies for married couples are to blame for Britain’s ‘broken society’.

Temples of Modern China

Ninad D. Sheth

These marvels from China show just how far ahead China has pulled of India.

The New Gold Rush

Adam Molner

Gold coin peddlers in the US are selling the metal as one of three ways to stave off doom, God and guns being the other two. Rational investors, thankfully, remain calm.

Looking Back at the Next Decade

Team Open

An audacious future history of the next ten years. Suspend your disbelief and enjoy!

…and Still Counting

Jay Mazoomdaar

Who remembers climate change? Reporting from the second UN Population Summit from Mumbai.

Pakistan circa 2020

Ninad D. Sheth

The great four-way split happened five years ago, in 2015, but the impact is still being felt, what with the latest Pashtoonistan crisis.

The Decade in Review

Shovon Chowdhury

President Sarah Palin, Google dollars and the birth of the new state of Talibstan. Tsk tsk, and that’s the good news compared to China’s response to India’s ‘obduracy’ on Tibet and Aishwarya Rai.