Thinking Out Of The Witness Box
Mahmood Farooqui’s rape conviction for forced oral sex opens a hectic debate about the ‘lacunae’ in the amended criminal law
Dams For A River Of Languages
Below the Cauvery’s currents run linguistic and ethnic faultlines. The water claim is just the tip.
Godfather Returns To Haunt Bihar
Shahabuddin swaggers out of jail, targets Nitish, is coddled by Laloo. And fear stalks Siwan again.
Waiting For Shiva
Rahul Gandhi’s long-awaited elevation as party chief may not happen before the UP polls
The Eternal Return of King Nobody
Whose Onam is it anyway? Maveli is the enigmatic nub around which history, myth and politics clash.
A Loud Call Rings Out
Mumbai’s Prithvi Theatre, battling a funds crunch, scrimps on its famous festival
‘We Have Never Attempted Such An Exercise In 60 Years’
Economic affairs secretary Shaktikanta Das on the plans and challenges of making an inventory of surplus landholdings with over 200 central public sector enterprises
The She In The Goblet
In a country where ‘wine’ shops sold everything but wine until a decade ago, much has changed since, with women rising to the industry’s top
Reform Thyself, Learned Judges
In a democracy, judges being disciplined by the executive is not an option because it defies the basic principle of separation of powers
This Land Is Your Land
Ten lakh acres—that’s 4,000 sq km, the size of Trinidad and Tobago—are lying idle with central PSUs. How can India benefit?
Time To Call In The Runners
The Lodha Committee has rung the bell for long-term cricket administrators. They’re now looking at proxies to retain control.
Preeti Shenoy
The bestselling author is the only Indian woman writer to be on the Forbes list of most influential people in India. Her new book, <em>It’s All In the Planets</em>, is just out.
Upstarts With Grand Visions
All the start-up entrepreneurs featured in the book have amazing stories to tell—of struggle, of peer pressure and of intrigue.
High Kicks, Pom Poms And Excellent Business
A compilation of the events that led to the 2013 IPL batting-fixing scandal and its consequences
Speak, Yesterday’s People
Alexievich’s visceral first-person accounts from the last days of the USSR are saturated with anger, longing and hope
Himal Diary
A magazine that challenged nationalist establishments could not hope to access the mass market.
Lion
Could easily have transgressed into poverty porn territory, with a side of White Saviour Complex tossed in...
Justice, Please
The open letter written by Justice Markandey Katju, to the judges of the Supreme Court demanding justice in the Ikhlaque case