A day in the life of a Manipuri girl in Delhi

Twenty-year-old biker stuntwoman Pooja Rathod talks about riding on a wall and risking her neck for her independence

Extracts from the autobiography of Shakeela, South India’s celebrity soft-porn star who wouldn’t go completely nude

A civic leadership incubator programme in Bangalore attempts to teach future political leaders skills of governance. Priyanka Pulla attends a session to find out what it takes to educate a politician

Mumbai’s Parsis find themselves divided over a crematorium for those who’d rather not opt for the traditional Towers of Silence

A radical zero-tax proposal that was first mooted in interior Maharashtra is now a national point of debate

The ageing Maratha stalwart has everyone guessing which way he will go

Nitish Kumar’s efforts to cobble together a third front will likely go nowhere