The National Election of Bengal

‘Malice Towards One and All’

Virendra Kapoor

Khushwant Singh once wrote that Indira Gandhi could not become a clerk in the Government she had most fortuitously come to head

Columns

China’s Ticking Age Bomb

Minhaz Merchant

Mao’s legacy of the one-child policy could stall Xi’s ambition

Feature

Coping with the Worst Wave

Madhavankutty Pillai

The government behaves exactly as people do—it acts by convenience

Feature

Bernard Madoff (1938-2021): The Big Con

Lhendup G Bhutia

He ran the world’s largest ponzi scheme for decades through a combination of trust and exclusivity

Columns

Lockdown Ethics

Madhavankutty Pillai

The unfairness of consumers being denied non-essential goods from ecommerce companies in Maharashtra

Columns

Divided Rebels

Jayanta Ghosal

Getting increasingly restless over the likely outcome of state Assembly elections on May 2nd

Cover Stories

The Name of the Storm

S Prasannarajan

Along the unquiet Hooghly

Cover Stories

What’s At Stake?

MJ Akbar

Any number in three figures for the party will be a massive advance

Columns

Exile and the Kingdom

Rachel Dwyer

How a penniless European prince became the longest serving royal consort

Columns

Redeeming Babasaheb

Makarand R Paranjape

The demand for our times is a nation-positive Ambedkarism and a Dharma-positive Dalitism

Essay

When Boris Comes to Bharat

Sunanda K Datta-Ray

Still in search of a post-imperial purpose