World

Curry Recipes

Rahul Jayaram

In India for a Nat Geo assignment, photographer Steve McCurry rebuts criticism that he is a one-image wonder

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?

Guns and Poses

David Lepeska

The US exerts strict controls on war photography. Correspondents go embedded with military units. And the Pentagon plays photo editor. Call it war choreography

The Freak City

Rahul Bhatia

Dubai is astonishing. But sometimes, when you are standing there, you expect a man’s voice to suddenly shout ‘pack up’, and everything to disappear

Brown vs Cameron

Sajeda Momin

As Britons bay for an early election, Britain will witness that irrepressible phenomenon of a presidential style clash of personalities

Cheers for Fears

Rahul Pandita

There are troubling signs in triumphalist Sri Lanka that the Tamil issue is not any closer to resolution

Tiananmen is long past. Right now, it’s time to wake up and smell the gunpowder. As the Asian Century unfolds, India must get its act together to prevent its powerful northern neighbour from usurping the country’s future