The circus you missed, in nine easy snapshots

The odd use of a strange ruse to stir up communal trouble

Houses for former mill workers on mill land is a popular election issue. Why do politicians keep raising it even though the workers themselves have moved on?

The BJP president’s support for Narendra Modi shows that the race for the party’s PM-probable is still far from closed

The multiple exploits of Nagvenkar, the journalist who exposed Goa’s paid news racket, pulled off a prank by planting a fake Nazi story in several well-read dailies, and has held up a mirror to the media in other ways

The strange case of a senior Army officer who nearly got away charging the country for his lingerie purchases

A dispassionate history of sex and the powerful mythologies that have surrounded it down the ages

Muslim women of Mumbai’s Bohra community are secretly joining hands to slough off an age-old tradition of female genital mutilation