Special Report

A Trick Too Obvious?

The hush-hush way in which the Central Government is going about its proposal to conduct General Elections and Assembly Elections......

The Colour Revolution

It is said that Sadar Bazaar in the walled city of Delhi is a barometer of every festival in India. And it’s no exception .....

Special Story

A Private Matter

The big news in the Defence Sector last month was the cancellatin of a billion dollars’ worth of contract for the Multi-Role Tanker-Transport aircraft.....

Women in Mau Mau Uprising

The Mau Mau revolt is shrouded in mystery. A group of Kenyan men and women seemed to have run away to the mountains and managed ......

The Sultan Strikes Back

If the modern saga of friend-turned-foe is ever written, the neo-Sultan of Ankara and his self-exiled friend from Pennsylvania will......

Sleepless in Tehran

The 230th birthday of the capital Tehran is being celebrated in a festival, dubbed Tehran 230, in the oldest districts of .....

Sports

Neither Glitter, Nor Gold!

You don’t win Silver, you lose the Gold. This is a very popular maxim used among Olympians. Yet, India’s near hysterical response .....

Typos

For Who, This Lion's share..?

Picture this… You are Hiren Bhai or his wife Hira, and you live 20 kilometres away from the outskirts of the protected forests ....

Rear Window

DC's Kremlin Bogeyman

Over the weekend there was a lot more talk about Donald Trump and his operatives loving Russia, and about how Vladimir Putin wants Trump....

Column

They Don't. But Why Not?

People often ask me, "We heard you provide unsecured loans to the unbanked micro-entrepreneurs. But don’t they run....

History Mail

Luz Long to Jesse Owens

To win four gold medals at a single Olympic Games is astonishing enough; however, to do so as a black person in 1936.....

Book Review

The Dispensable Nation

I chose to read this book for two reasons: first, the curiosity of the title by an author of Iranian descent; and secondly because the author....

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

If I spoke to one hundred scientists about the topic of scientific wrongness, I suspect I’d get one hundred slightly .....

The Greatest Minds & Ideas of All Time

Among the modern historians—with the exceptions of Holocaust deniers and other loonies—no historian has been as derided by his peers .....

The Rise and Fall of Nations

Hit by a global financial crisis in 2008, the world continues to reel under its impact even today. Credit crunch, decline in manufacturing.....

Rage of The River

Three years ago, in June 2013, when a multi-day cloudburst took place in the Kedarnath region of Uttarakhand, causing massive floods .....

Movie Review

The Dawn in Delhi

I have always felt whenever theatre in Delhi is discussed, one hears views of people who either have no knowledge about Delhi ....