UK

Battle for the Headscarf

Basharat Peer

One woman’s defiance of Turkey’s secularist dress code

Modi Makes a Decisive Move in the UK

Harsh V Pant

Modi has made the relationship more forward looking

Separate Is Never Equal

Sophie Morris

Gender segregation on British campuses highlights how efforts to placate vocal minority groups put individual freedoms at threat

My Granddad’s Car

arindam

Two friends from immigrant families in the UK explore their cultural heritage through expeditions to bring their grandfathers’ cars to their adoptive country

Heads of States as Arms Peddlers

Mihir Srivastava

The UK’s churlish reaction to India’s order of Rafale jets shows how prime ministers and presidents are increasingly behaving like salesmen rather than statesmen

Ecstasy and Agony

Boria Majumdar

The author visits pubs at Oxford to catch the euphoria and the heartbreak of the English football-crazy fan.

Medicine’s not Enough to Save a Doctor’s Life

Sajeda Momin

A group in the UK is helping ethnic minority doctors fight against the prejudices and inequities they face.

Rajinder Singh is a retired school teacher who migrated to the UK in 1967 and ironically started supporting a party that demanded the forcible repatriation of all non-Europeans. Now, he is about to go down in history as the first non-White mascot of the British National Party.

How the Waste Was Shunned

Sajeda Momin

An ambitious project by artist Michael Landy in the UK invites artists to dump their ‘failures’ in a giant waste bin.

Till Taxes Do Us Part

Sajeda Momin

Tax incentives for marriage are witnessing a big political wrangle in the UK, with the Conservatives convinced that bad fiscal policies for married couples are to blame for Britain’s ‘broken society’.