Assam

Catching a Tiger by Its Tail

Vivek Menon

The future of the once fearsome predator lies in the hands of a few brave men

Santali: Talking Time

Nandini Nair

Two tribal villages in Bengal revive the Santali language

Migrant Workers in Kerala: The Stigma

Shahina KK

Migrant workers in Kerala face difficult times in the wake of the arrest of one of them in a sensational murder case

Achyut Lahkar: The Mobile Revolutionary

Jyotirmoy Talukdar

Achyut Lahkar who died recently will be remembered for creating plays that smelt of Assam and which brought the magic of cinema onto the stage

A Crisis Called Rahul

PR Ramesh

The Congress faces its biggest existential question

Assam 2012: The Story of a Riot

Rahul Bhattacharya

When the blood dried in the leafy remoteness of the Northeast, the truth remained as elusive as the perpetrators. An investigation of the ethnic eruption in Assam 2012

Reading the Future in the Ashes of Thursday

S Prasannarajan

A comrade who defies both biology and ideology in Kerala. The triumph of Kancheepuram kitsch in Tamil Nadu. The compelling subaltern-sandesh socialist in Bengal. A Modi wave on the Brahmaputra. And a Family that couldn't provide the sheltering shadow for a withered party...The summer thriller of 2016