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India's Top Professional Colleges

Cream On Top

Not much has changed in the Top 20 in the ninth edition of our rankings this year, but go down to the second-tier colleges, and you encounter a sizeable churn.

Jul 07, 2014

| Arindam Mukherjee
Rankings rump

To Flower And Flourish

Educational institutions have to create their own excellence ecosystems

Jul 07, 2014

| A.K. Balaji Prasad
The Outsiders

The Worms Shall Now Converge

IITs have the edge, but global realities and demanding students force others to improve

Jul 07, 2014

| Arindam Mukherjee
The IITs

The Incubatorium

A paean to India’s seedbed for first-rate engineers—and do-everythings

Jul 07, 2014

| Sumant Sinha
Professionals in Parliament

Doctors In The House

Young professionals have got a look-in, but Parliament still runs on old feet

Jul 07, 2014

| Pragya Singh
Careers in Politics

Power The Points

More professsionals in politics is the need of the hour. Professional practices too.

Jul 07, 2014

| Meera Sanyal
The NaMo PROs

Million Man Marks

How the NaMo election campaign harnessed its legion of volunteers

Jul 07, 2014

| Prarthna Gahilote
Interview

‘As A Bank, We Can Give More Than Just Credit’

Non-performing assets and defaulters are not an issue for Bandhan

Jul 07, 2014

| Lola Nayar
Beyond Borders

No Reverse Osmosis

Competition is driving Indian students to study abroad, and some countries are benefiting

Jul 07, 2014

| Francis Maindl
Medicine & Healthcare

In Dubious Health

Despite the rampant infection, there’s hope for recovery

Jul 07, 2014

| Uttam Sengupta
Medicine

More Than Any Other Living

A ‘noble’ profession is a heavy cross to bear. Many doctors take it as a credo.

Jul 07, 2014

| Ratna Rao Shekar
Rural Healthcare

Healing Heartlands

The SVYM and its idealist doctors go against the grain—to the villages

Jul 07, 2014

| Ashna Bajaj
The Girls Are Here

She Can Do It

The girl child, at least in Bengal, is finally able to spread her wings

Jul 07, 2014

| Dola Mitra
Lawyers

Outside The Frame

Three lawyers list the most important cases they are currently working on

Jul 07, 2014

| Pragya Singh
Fashion and Social Media

Fashion Is A Profile Pic

FB, Twitter et al have made fashion accessible, but robbed it of exclusivity

Jul 07, 2014

| Sujata Assoumull Sippy
FYUP

A Messy Course

The new government has its way. Ends DU’s much-opposed FYUP.

Jul 07, 2014

| Anuradha Raman

opinion

No Hindirance

BJP owes its win to the Hindi heartland, hence the Hindi accent

Jul 07, 2014

| Saba Naqvi
politics: NDA GOVT

Sorry, No Change

A month on, it’s been more missteps than future-nomics by Modi govt

Jul 07, 2014

| Uttam Sengupta
opinion

Chaining 1,200 Years

Our PM’s recalculation of how long Indians have been ‘slaves’

Jul 07, 2014

| Hasan Suroor

fashion: swimwear

Baring Her Straps

Boutique swimwear catches the eyebeam of Indian women

Jul 07, 2014

| Ashna Bajaj Francis Maindl

Academies

Kicking Class

A look at the academies that nurture talent for the best football clubs

Jul 07, 2014

| Michael Yokhin
- Long Pass To the Subcontinent

extracts

Looking For A Third Eye

Mamata was magic; like moths to a flame, the media was drawn to a future CM; for the masses she nearly was Devi, slayer of evil. For everyone in Bengal, Mamata portended ‘poriborton’.

Jul 07, 2014

| Dola Mitra

Last Page

Andaman Diary

The day after the Capo de tutti capi was sworn in as prime minister, I found myself sleeping with the fishes

Jul 07, 2014

| Indrajit Hazra

Glitterati

The page 3 people, the chatterati and those in the news for being in the news

Letters

Published feedback from our readers: rants, raves, bouquets, brickbats

10 Questions

Pawan Shrivastav

The director on Naya Pata, a crowd-funded film on migration.

Jul 07, 2014

| Prachi Pinglay-Plumber
Chennai Restaurant

Pilgrimage To Triplicane

The ‘Crown of South India’ is a sprawling two-storey maze of eating and cooking spaces, wafting the fragrance of masalas and drumsticks

Jul 07, 2014

| Anvar Alikhan
The Secret Diary of Sex Counsellor

Dr Mahinder Watsa, 90

Sex at 90! Ae Bhagwan! Hare Ram! Why doesn’t he visit our holy places, read chapters from the Gita and attend ‘satyanarayan pujas’

Jul 07, 2014

| V. Gangadhar
Happenings

Seven Days

The states of the nation: news, headlines, gossip, rumours, things we learnt

Jul 07, 2014

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movie review

Oggarane (Kannada)

In spite of its inconsistencies, will become part of a small group of films that are challenging the predictability of commercial Kannada cinema.

Jul 07, 2014

| Sundar Sarukkai