P Chidambaram

News of a Killing

Prayaag Akbar

This eyewitness account is a first step towards filling the information gap of the 1987 Hashimpura massacre

The Economic History of Liberation

TCA Srinivasa Raghavan

Revisiting India’s path-breaking budgets on the 25th anniversary of reforms

Congress: From Here to Where?

PR Ramesh and Ullekh NP

Devoid of ideas and dismissive of its own legacy, the Congress, its social base fast eroding, faces its biggest leadership crisis

Lalit Modi: The cost of a fugitive

PR Ramesh and Ullekh NP

How a disgraced cricket czar in exile, an indiscreet foreign minister and a royally aloof chief minister have created the first big moral embarrassment for the Narendra Modi Government. The inside story

TRANSITION TRAUMA

PR Ramesh and Ullekh NP

Why a section of the Congress thinks Rahul Gandhi’s absence is good for the party even as Sonia Gandhi prepares for a transfer of power

THE PROBLEM WITH BIG BANG THEORY

Dhiraj Nayyar

A Budget of high standard—and one for our times

Out of Sight

Anshuman Kumar

They were the big guns of the UPA Government, and the most sought after in Delhi once. Where are they now?

The inheritance of ruins

PR Ramesh

After ten years of the UPA regime’s fiscal recklessness and figure fudging, Arun Jaitley has his task cut out for him: take the economy to the next level of growth