It’s a clear December evening in Itanagar and there is a nip in the air. Bonfires keep the revellers warm as poka, the traditional fermented rice-beer, flows freely. As flame-haired…
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Kashmir, Beef and the Calcutta Bubble The incidents of being persecuted for one’s food habits recently got a friend very angry. Not only at what’s happening to the country but…
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The Indian economy is showing mixed signals but 8 percent GDP growth is attainable, believes Chief Economic Advisor (CEA) Arvind Subramanian, who is on the threshold of completing his first…
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Wednesday is holiday at Santiniketan, a small town in Birbhum district in West Bengal. It is the day to observe diksha divas or initiation into Brahmoism, a religious movement started…
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In 2008, when the US subprime loans pulled down economies around the world, India survived. It was not a miracle; premeditated moves helped the Indian economy avert a crisis. Seven…
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In her first year of college, Arundhati Bhattacharya boarded the wrong bus to Meerut. She was on her way from Kolkata to spend the summer break at a friend’s place.…
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As I walked I could hear myself breathing, I could hear my boots hitting concrete, the wind blowing, and little else. It’s the silence that makes China’s ghost cities so…
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J.A. Gemmell was a senior corporate executive in Calcutta. Like hundreds of other English citizens, he left India in the 1940s when the Independence struggle was at its peak. In…
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In 2008, when Narendra Modi was chief minister of Gujarat, an SMS from him to Ratan Tata saying “Suswagatham” had ensured that the Tata small car project moved out of…
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Investors say there is a lack of clarity over retrospective tax. Why the doublespeak? We need to put things into perspective. The retrospective amendment relates to indirect transfers under Section…