His Olympic legacy secure, Sushil has staked and sacrificed his all for a spot at Rio
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An NSG seat is vital to India’s interest. For all his elite foreign company, can Modi help thwart the China-led naysayers?
New Assam chief minister, Sarbananda Sonowal, on the steps he plans to take to prevent illegal migration from Bangladesh
Jayati Saha’s snapshots of a landscape ravaged by creeping climate change
All the chatter and goss from around the world.
An NSG seat is vital to India’s interest. For all his elite foreign company, can Modi help thwart the China-led naysayers?
Business in bitesizes
Poverty drives the influx that a porous border permits
New Assam chief minister, Sarbananda Sonowal, on the steps he plans to take to prevent illegal migration from Bangladesh
Assam is counting its migrants. How real is the process, how humane?
OTHER STORIES
Flipkart, the online shopping pioneer in India, is facing a crisis that will define its future
Justice for Akhlaq lies trampled as a new report whips Dadri up in beefy, righteous anger
The excessively touchy response to Udta Punjab’s tale of a land bleached dry by drugs stems from the widely-alleged Akali complicity
The Rajya Sabha election is in the news—for the wrong reasons
A pyrotechnical burst of creativity—with grit, grunge and realism—is lighting up the cinemas
Meeting Muhammad Ali and visiting hometown offers a rare glimpse into the legend who fought his biggest battles outside the ring.
The founder of the Jawahar Bagh camp is disowned by the sect he swore by
So who is really to blame for the conflagration in the Mathura park? The dead, sadly, tell no tales.
Khadse the Leva Patil strongman has put the BJP in a fix. Even his exit, after all, was made ceremonious.
Fissures grow amid rumours of a transfer of power following defeat in Kerala and Assam
An album by a rock-n-roll great that opens with the ektara
Don’t think too much of the plot, just watch the stars and take in the ’70s production design and music
Swedish footballer Jonas Olsson, 33, was in India last week as part of the Football for Health initiative.
On how newspaapers are showing that journalism is the first draft of history, a book on medical malpractices and Achala Moulik's latest
Advertising reflects its times and that it is not in the business of activism. Parameswaran covers a gamut of anecdotes to illustrate his point.
Gimlet-eyed essays on the Constitution ask crucial questions
NSD's Summer Theatre Festival, an art exhibition called Fictive in Calcutta and the seventh edition of Bandish in Mumbai.
While the universe isn’t inherently imbued with meaning, it is in this self-conscious act of paying attention that meaning arises.
The latest in the list of Pune's brave, yummy experiments
A regular column on the essential buzz
Pahalgam has always seemed to me the archetype of a one-horse town—a Hollywood studio of fake shop fronts transported to Himalayan heights.
For putting together the most amazing record of wins in tennis
Domestic violence is a fact of life in India but it’s the violence in public spaces that is showing a sharp spike.
The states of the nation: news, headlines, gossip, rumours, things we learnt
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