Delhi’s Political Cemetery
Lutyens’ Bungalow Zone. Beautiful ministerial houses, assassination-tourism and more.
Behind The Food Security Bill
Exclusive. Feedback forms from politicians, based on which the Food Security Bill was drafted. Even Arvind Kejriwal was asked!
Inconvenient Judgments
Why do our politicians overturn so many of our Supreme Court’s verdicts – out of public interest or self-interest?
World’s End – Part 1
A two-part journey into the abyss that is Safdarjung Hospital.
World’s End – Part 2
A two-part journey into the abyss that is Safdarjung Hospital.
India’s Darkest Hour
Sibalomics, dodgy calculations and a country in economic morass. Is this India’s darkest hour before dawn?
Karan Thapar’s Doodles
Blimey! Is this really what Karan Thapar doodles during edit meetings at the PMO?
Renaming The Poverty Line
What debases a man so much that he begins to look at others as a statistic? Beyond semantics.
Who’s The Real Fascist?
Are Gujaratis communal, bigoted, fascist merchants of death – as some opinion-makers suggest?
The Unsinkable Ship of Theseus
A review & a conversation with Kiran Rao.
The indications aren’t all that good. Flowing tresses and wild beards and Kissinger specs and Fabindia kurtas, and when Arundhati Roy saunters in I have to pinch my upper arm to make sure this isn’t an andolan or a Yojana Bhawan gherao.
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An article on Canada. Not Gujarat. Or Modi. Just Canada. Not NaMo.
Mandela: Never Let Him Go
Stone-breaker, vegetable-grower and the conscience of mankind.
All Rise
The inside story of how and where the Ishrat Jahan case was actually tried – and it’s not where you think.
Bekhabar’s Crossword # 1
Nidhi Razdan, the secret society of like-minded journalists & a crossword Dan Brown would kill for.
The Last Mogul
Has NDTV turned into a government ministry – employing hundreds but making little profit and no impact?
Rajdeep Sardesai’s Doodles
A dekko at what Rajdeep Sardesai doodles during edit meetings at the PMO.
Death by Another Name
Time to fix something besides cricket – how about the state of public healthcare in India.
Tuberculosis and the Scientist
The third and final part of our trilogy on Tuberculosis – the scourge and solutions
Tuberculosis & The Journalist
Why do so few articles on tuberculosis appear in our mainstream media?
Tuberculosis – Still A Scourge
Two Indians die of TB every three minutes. Why are 330,000 Indians dying from a disease that is completely curable?
Part 1 of a three-part essay on Tuberculosis. The Doctor.
There was a time when our heroes died of tuberculosis.
Midway through the melodrama the doctor would bite on his pipe and disclose hesitantly to the main lead that yes, what he feared was true: it is tuberculosis.
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