Capital Reasons

Winter in St. Petersburg

A visit to Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s House

The Backstory of our Anxieties

We are still living in the changes authored by the years 1979 and 1989

Doping Ban: Russian Sporting Prowess and Public Health

The ban on Russia in international events will be a dampener for aspiring young athletes

Behind the Upsurge in Stalin’s Popularity

Dispatch from St Petersburg

Reimagining the India Map

Caviar Capitalism

Since the Soviet Union collapsed, caviar has gone from being easily available to being less so; China has become its largest producer in the world; and luxury has gone from being all about global chic to local grunge

Being Real

Was India a wily swing state during the Cold War?

How Tsarist Russia’s intellectuals embraced Indian culture

Yoga, Sanskrit and Dharmic belief systems found their way to pre-communist Russia and were adopted by some of the foremost members of the country’s intelligentsia

In Russia’s Far East Lies India’s New El Dorado

As Narendra Modi visits the Russian city of Vladivostok for the Eastern Economic Forum on September 4-6, Ajay Kamalakaran looks at the growing opportunities for India in one of the world’s most strategically important but sparsely populated areas