Issue 13

Punjabi weddings turn slim

With wedding expenses dominating farmers’ debt, communities advocate simple, inexpensive ceremonies

Still All About the Monsoon

Around 250 districts in the country have been under drought conditions for five consecutive years, and deficits have plagued 13 monsoons since 2000

Kashmir's political theatre of the absurd

Militants invoke the Quran while exhorting Kashmiris to stay away from polling booths, while a candidate prays to the saints for success, and a former chief minister sings bhajans. It's silly season in the Valley.

Jallianwala Bagh massacre: ‘Regret’ doesn’t cut it, Britain ought to say ‘sorry’

Jallianwala Bagh: The empire is still seen by some as a huge achievement for a tiny island nation

A hidden treasure in tonnes of floral trash

Floral waste has a tremendous and largely unexploited potential of being converted into pigments, biogas and organic acids by using simple and inexpensive technologies

No Jay-walker in Politics, Galla Goes for Guntur Again

Unfazed by the recent I-T raids, TDP candidate and MD of Amara Raja Group, with declared assets worth `305 crore, is all charged up to give a tough fight to his rivals

Hawa Singh’s granddaughter Nupur gets in the Asian ring

20-year-old Nupur — whose grandfather Hawa Singh won India its first Asian Games gold in boxing in 1966 — is representing India at the Asian Boxing Championships that began in Bangkok on April 19

Can Modi bhakti revive the career of Vivek Oberoi?

Vivek Oberoi has been crying foul ever since Election Commission postponed his biopic of Narendra Modi. Does the actor stand to gain when the film releases?

Alirajpur is the Black Hole of Indian Democracy

India’s poorest district, Alirajpur in Madhya Pradesh, is a place where nothing shines in the gloom of all-pervasive deprivation

History be damned in Bollywood

When it comes to depicting history, Bollywood never gets its script right, as Kalank proves again. The industry has no time for authenticity