World

Af-Pak: The Gathering Storm

Ninad D. Sheth

America’s Afghanistan surge is doomed from the start with a time-ticker hovering over it. But a solution may lie in carving out a Pashtoon nation

Just Another Life?

Manju Sara Rajan

Vikram S. Buddhi has spent 30 months in jail for a crime he didn’t commit. And the famed US justice system thinks it’s alright.

Keep Your Counsel, Prime Minister

Ninad D. Sheth

Manmohan Singh’s maiden visit to the Obama White House need not make news to be a success

Balti Food© Birmingham

Sajeda Momin

Restaurateurs across the UK are up in arms against the Birmingham City Council’s move to patent Balti curry

Why is China Afraid of Him?

Shivam Vij

The 14th Dalai Lama is ageing, and a succession tussle could set off another crisis in Indo-Chinese relations. The signs are already evident.

Masquerade Party

Venkata Vemuri

Here’s why Nick Griffin’s appearance on the BBC’s Question Time show sparked outrage in the UK

Eye of the Storm

Venkata Vemuri

The Prime Minister of the UK is one-eyed, and the other eye is deteriorating. But neither he nor the Opposition thinks it reason enough for him to step down.

Dumb Down Dotcom

Shone S. Babu

The Internet was welcomed as an information superhighway, but has it ended up jamming our brains instead?

Gaming the System

David Lepeska

Q2L, a new school in the US, is changing the rules of the learning game.

An Indian maths scholar in the US is convicted on the absurd charge of threatening George W Bush. He faces over three decades in prison. His scientist father was once unjustly jailed by India for being a US spy. The story of a family’s battle for justice.