A ‘surrogate corporate war’ plays out behind the Radia tapes expose', claims Ratan Tata
Hardnews Bureau Delhi
FEBRUARY 2011
Cover Story and Featured Stories
Churchill excoriated ‘Indians’ as a people with little merit, as the world’s ‘beastliest’ people, next only to Germans. ‘Famine or no famine’, Indians ‘bred like rabbits’ and did not deserve any emergency food shipments to relieve their hunger
Sukumar Muralidharan Delhi
That justice would elude even ‘beautiful people’ like Jessica was the first time that many of us confronted the ugly face of political corruption, bribery, miscarriage of justice
Sonali Ghosh Sen Kolkata
With a series of ghastly rapes and crimes stalking UP, it’s not all cake and ice-cream for the birthday girl
Pradeep Kapoor Lucknow
Many masks must be removed to discover the sinister face of those behind this conspiracy engineered by terrorist groups with intimate links with the RSS
Hardnews Bureau Delhi
The lure of high profits has institutionalised a system in which consumers remain forever at the mercy of insurance companies
Sadiq Naqvi Delhi
There is no consensus on what actually the soul of Pakistan is. What, indeed, is the soul of Pakistan?
Arshi Saleem Hashmi Islamabad
With his great body of work with Satyajit Ray, in Bengali cinema and theatre, it’s time to celebrate the genius of Soumitra Chatterjee
Partha Mukherjee and Priyanka Mukherjee Kolkata
Said a sticker pasted all over, ‘If Binayak Sen is guilty of sedition, so are We!’
Amit Sengupta Delhi
Boundary walls and iron gates dominate Delhi’s landscape and imagination — a telling metaphor for a city that preys upon its public spaces even as it expands abnormally
Ratna Raman Delhi
In his silent, strategic backroom manoeuvring, Sonia Gandhi’s powerful political secretary Ahmed Patel is often the mind behind the party and the government
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In 2009, I went to Berne and Geneva to investigate illegal Indian funds squirreled in Swiss banks, especially the case of the mysterious Pune-based stud farm owner Hasan Ali Khan, who had $6 billio
This year marks the 100th birth anniversary of Bruno Kreisky, executive head of Austria's first Socialist Party government from 1970 to 1983.
Trust the BJP to go for a most retrograde form of protest and choose a conflict zone geography where the wounds of the 110 young men shot dead by the police are still so alive, raw
The film begins and ends with the prophecy: the mining mafia might one day overturn and usurp Indian democracy
Amit Sengupta Delhi
A big fee hike has enraged students in the UK as they spill over on the streets, often facing a brutish police out to smash them
Aniruddh Ghosal London