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Clouds Across Matrices

It’s aimed high. But will stronger regional air connectivity actually work?

Patriotism Vs Jingoism

Gandhian nationalism, enshrined in the Constitution, is based on ideals of equality and diversity. As a new pretender, with its hate-filled credo, tries to supplant it, our duty is to put up a dogged fight.

Onion Dome Of Stained Glass

Five African sides have qualified for the World Cup. With excellent organisation and a few world-class players, can they overcome history?

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?

Revisionism Saves The Day

Bengal’s beleaguered comrades push a changed ‘Yechury line’ down hardliners’ throats in the party congress

No Party After Erauschwitz?

#MeToo wasn't the Holocaust. Nor were the accusing women killijoy feminazis. Male entitlement speaks out of fear - of loss of pervasive, silent privileage.

Bloodbath On Dalal Street

US developments hit Indian markets, with the return of capital gains tax adding to negative sentiments

A Sunny Electric Dream

As technologies to tap the sun and store its energy become more efficient, we are already on our way to an ­incredibly ­energy-affluent world. And chances are we might arrive there before ­development driven by fossil fuels brings on a ­c­limate-change apocalypse.

Storing The Change

Cheaper and better batteries are set to revolutionise the concept of energy storage. Here is the tech spark that triggered the illuminating possibility of clean energy.

Noida To Islamabad

Is Pak readying to make the next IT boom story? India has lost 125 jobs already.

The Zest Of Both Worlds

At home with commercial slapsticks as much as with ­nuanced indies, Sanjai Mishra is a heart stealer

A Legal Game In J&K

Lawyers in J&K are divided over the SC order on forming the J&K Bar Council.

Sunset In The East

As the ruins of its lost bastion in Tripura are inspected, CPI(M) mandarins prepare to decide on an alliance with the Congress

The Troll Destroys The Other

Birthing the modern mob­, the new bully boys on Internet Street­, ‘digital democracy’ sees the political lose out for lack of fresh ideas. Discourse is left to die.

Aditya Chopra: Fall Of The DDLJ Man

Aditya Chopra conceived Befikre as a modern antithesis to DDLJ. But it has been a modern disaster.

Tech Graduates In India Have Zero Hands-on Experience

For the past seven years, Dr Vinay Viswa­nathan has been plugged into India’s engineering education system trying to fill a gap in hands-on learning through his firm JED-I Technologies. It’s far from a promising situation, reckons the co-inventor of the Simputer—the hand-held, multilingual computer which preceded India’s telecom boom and which, even after 15 years, still remains one of the few examples of a novel product that came out of Indian academia. Vinay, a former computer science professsor at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), tells Ajay Sukumaran that one of the main problems is that students are typically burnt out by the time they reach an engineering course. Edited excerpts:

Circle The Wagons Around Drag on Hole

An Australian perspective on strategic developments in the Indo-Pacific. 

The Times Are a-Taxin'

Post-demonetisation, states have hardened their stances on the proposed GST. A delay is inevitable.

Mirror, Mirror, Who's Worse?

BJP’s strategies for capturing Bengal—development and communalism—are in Mamata’s playbook too.

Court Of The Absurd

In mythology, the Sun God’s son is a tragic hero. But Justice Karnan, the first HC judge to be awarded jail term for contempt of court, has set a sad precedent.

Rajlakshmi Borthakur

“Does it sound mad to you?

Parveen Sikandar

For Patricia Narayanan, food is bread and butter—in a cryptic way as well. That’s because, the middle-­aged Chennaiite runs a restaurant, a food court in a mall and the canteen of an IT major. The same metro has, on a quiet and leafy avenue of Kotturpuram, a much-sought-after name for stylish fashion jewellery that does not burn a hole in your pockets. That is Damini, again, the creation of another woman’s inspiration and hard work.

Sabriye Tenberken

Naming an institute after a small, potent chilli that grows wild in Kerala is unusual. But it seems like a fitting name for a Thiruvananthapuram institute that studies how humans can overcome even the harshest failures.

Scenes From Up And Down The Stairs

We present our annual B-school rankings in a challenging year. Elsewhere, we focus on family businesses, MBA maestros and Bollywood.

On The School Carousel

What do they all need? A sharp guideline for B-schools, aspirants and graduates.

Sealing Souls With Glass

To be successful entrepreneurs, women must overcome their negative conditioning

'Crowds Will Go Crazy'

Jaya and Karunanidhi out of the way, Rajinikanth now seeks a lead role in Tamil Politics.

90 Days on the Run or Let Loose?

An extract from the chapter ‘Why did the CBI avoid (capturing) sivarasan?’ from Rajiv Gandhi assassination convict Nalini Murugan’s recently released memoir, Rajiv Killing: Forgotten Truths.

Digital Bombs of Mob Violence

Social media rumours fan a medieval barbarity within us. This time it’s Assam.

A Nation Within 4 Temples

The millennia-old idea of Bharat has been gripped in confusion since Indian independence. Now is as good a time as any to clear the haze.