Anjali Puri

Wit and restraint capture the venality of life in a Mumbai slum

Bridging the gulf between babuspeak and the popular tongue

Whether Bhopal’s nawabi fare, Indore’s ghee-saturated vegetarianism, or spartan tribal cuisine, a food trek through the heartland is gustatory bliss

India woos Buddhists at global congress, China stiffens up

Desperate US prisons look for lethal drugs from India. Should we market death?

Is Rajat Gupta all bad? Friends and ex-colleagues are divided on the former McKinsey boss.

A US-based doctor fights it out in India, wins Rs 1.34 crore for his wife’s death

Bail denial is itself a form of punishment. ‘Tangible’ justice? Or presumption of guilt?

A tale of Delhi’s itinerant labourers, told with restraint, potent irony, gentle humour and understated empathy

A Facebook group to bring Kashmiri Muslims, Pandits together catches on

The author of Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity on her reporting experiences and her kind of journalism

Shouldn't there be a thread that binds the "disaster wards" at JJ Hospital and the candlelight marchers who want to Act? Why are some dead policemen glorified and others virtually ignored? Visiting Mumbai after 26/11, Senior Editor Anjali Puri finds

'The Chinese are sensitive to what Americans do in the region, and therefore it is important that India shows it is not part of a hyphenated relationship with America and China, that America and India are not getting together to contain China'

Nothing's going to happen on the PM's trip to China, world-weary types on the circuit told her. But what an experience it turned out to be. Our senior editor's Beijing Diary (with a little inspiration from Bridget Jones's).

So asked the Pakistani immigration officer at the Wagah border. "Laskhar-e-Toiba?" we suggested. " But what about your Indian groups, you know, your BJP and your Shiv Sena?" he asked.