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Stream of New Consciousness: India Joins Online Revolution in Entertainment
02 Sep 2017 - 09 Sep 2017Vol09
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The inside Story of How I Lost the Race for the UN Secretary-General's Job in 2006: Shashi Tharoor
15 Oct 2016 - 22 Oct 2016Vol08
Issue43
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COMEBACK AMMA
Cover Story
J Jayalalithaa, acquitted by the court, returns to reclaim the crown. How her freedom changes it all in the South
Stories in this issue
J Jayalalithaa: The Phoenix
On Monday morning, when a former DMK MP texted a customary greeting to a party leader, he wasn’t expecting a reply. ‘Anna, how can it be a good morning?’ came the querulous retort, a little after 11.…
Is David Cameron the last Prime Minister of the United Kingdom?
At 10 PM on 7 May, Ed Miliband, leader of the Labour Party, was at his constituency home in Doncaster, drafting a victory speech. Voting in Britain’s long awaited, deeply divisive, general election…
Nepal Earthquake: Help one another or die
No man is an island,
Entire of itself.
—John Donne (1572-1631)
Even if only a few Nepalese grumbled about Indian journalists during one of South Asia’s worst natural disasters, one complaint is one…
The discreet charm of KV Kamath
A Mumbai-based banker describes ICICI Bank Chairman Kundapur Vaman Kamath, who has been named the first president of the New Development Bank set up by BRICS countries, as ‘Switzerland’ for his…
Dravidian-Hindutva axis in Tamil Nadu: The slow death of the Periyar atheist
Political outfits have a standard line for incidents of intimidation and violence: ‘These acts are condemnable.’ But when such events make their own socio-political position untenable, they add the…
Game of Thrones
If anyone in India decided to do a Game Of Thrones in a modern context, the BCCI would be the stage to set the characters. Friends here turn enemies within a blink, unexpected people suddenly become…
Hersh Controversy Over Osama bin Laden’s Killing
The world’s most wanted man, responsible for one of the worst terror attacks in world history, was caught and killed four years ago in a night raid in Abbottabad, Pakistan, by a group of US Navy…
Good Intentions Are Not Enough
Whatever the intent of the Government, some of the changes the Union Cabinet has approved for India’s Child Labour Act could prove counter- productive. While it has approved a ban on employment of…
Arvind Kejriwal
Arvind Kejriwal is a leader full of surprises, and, in recent times, not always pleasant. For a man who is said to have begun his political career by courting the Indian media, it is ironic that his…
Where the Sword Is Mightier
Bangladesh may have been established as a secular country, but over the last few decades, an exceptionally virulent strain of religious fundamentalism has come to the fore. The country’s politics is…