Counter Culture What explains the asphyxiating glut of biopics in Indian cinema?Prathyush Parasuraman
Presidential Election 2022 Droupadi’s moment: Can the presidential candidate push the envelope?Peter Ronald deSouza
The myth of 'autonomy'The RBI's recent initiatives aimed at stabilising the rupee confirm its recently acquired image of being autonomous, but the central bank is neither i
Bad loans and bad faithThe attempts to recover forcibly loans from peasants in Chhattisgarh stand in sharp contrast to the public inaction on huge amounts outstanding from l
Limits of the information 'revolution'India is not about to emerge an "IT superpower", accounting as it does for a mere 1.5 per cent of the world software market, mainly at the low end. Fo
Sri Lanka at a turning point?Traumatic recent events in the island unfold a new crisis which the political system might find it impossible to tackle given the dangerously widening
Deja vu on the balance of payments frontJAYATI GHOSHOfficial inaction in the face of dramatically poor external trade trends may lead to another balance of payments crisis.
Protectionism unlimitedC.P. CHANDRASEKHARThe growing world financial crisis has created a new desperation in developing countries to push out exports. The situation has simultaneously put gre
Clutching at nuclear strawsAs the BJP-led Government lurches from one round of talks to the next, the absence of a coherent doctrine and a security rationale for nuclearisation
Engineering bullishnessC.P. CHANDRASEKHARThe nature and timing of the new package to revive industry suggests that the BJP has realised the need to refurbish credibility through concessions t
The coming crisisJAYATI GHOSHIn terms of both financial and real economic variables, deflationary pressures are today stronger than they have been at any time since the Great Depr
Behind the fears of recessionC.P. CHANDRASEKHARIndia's National Magazine From the publishers of THE HINDU
In pursuit of truthA. G. NOORANIBy being scrupulously fair and judiciously temperate in his comments in his report on the Mumbai riots, Justice B.N. Srikrishna has restored credibili
SlideshowCaptured in timeAs independent India turns 75, some of the defining images of those seven decades.
