Festoons On The Hudson
Japan and China may be where the most value lies, but it’s the US visit that marked the real psychological high. Modi was feted by goggle-eyed NRIs and industrialists drinking up hope. The Obama parleys stuck to a flawless script too.
The Fight Club Conundrum
Did Obama ask Modi to join the anti-ISIS fight? The casus belli, though just, might not move India.
Chessboard Without A Queen Bee
The Jayalalitha conviction has thrown open the closed universe of Tamil politics
Who Is Going To Be Clean?
We are still not ready to accept that cleanliness and sanitation are caste-based.
It’s Open Season On Sabarmati
‘Swachh Bharat’ is an extension of ‘Nirmal Gujarat’, but its cities are no stranger to filth
‘I Do All That I Do So Agnostics Will Start Believing In God’
The controversial godman gave us all of 10 minutes to chat him up at Sirsa.
‘The Whole Genesis Of The NCP Was For Public Office’
The former Maharashtra CM on the break-up of the alliance and the prospects of his party in the forthcoming election
When Gandhi Nearly Slipped
She was his ‘pearl’; he her ‘law-giver’. Gandhi’s relationship with Saraladebi Chowdhurani in 1919-1920 charged his politics, threatened his marriage and alarmed his disciples.
“The Green Shoots Are Visible”
Chief of the PM’s economic advisory council under the UPA answers charges of bequeathing an economy in the doldrums to the NDA
Label It With Common Sense
On why we should relook, review and reflect on why grandma says what she says.
Those Cascading Gaurs
Bursting with information general, specialised and arcane, packed with photos and sketches—a true wildlife handbook
Antara Haldar
The first non-European lecturer of law at the University of Cambridge on why she’s keen to probe the Gujarat development model
Delhi Diary
Am I the only one who is a bit nauseated by the constant demand from the American side: “What can you do for us?”
Dronacharya
How can 85-year-old doddering idiots, who can neither lift nor string a Gandiva, head the Archery Federation for 30 and even 50 years.