A mutiny in Assam

Summer furnace

The planet is heating up. New temperature records are set every year. As the heat rises, so does the risk of illness, physical and mental, and it becomes more urgent to plan for the consequences.

The attention trick

From designing AI networks to understanding Alzheimer’s, research into the most fundamental of neural impulses may hold answers.

The one who got away

How Harjit Masih survived the ISIS in Iraq and why his story rings true.

Far from home

People from the Northeast in Delhi.

The song of songs

The Bhagavad Gita is among the founding influences of the national movement, thanks to Gandhi, but its role as the central scripture of Hinduism is quite recent.

Unspoken pacts, unholy alliances

The march of their lives

Hugging the problem away

China outplays India in the Indian Ocean region, buying influence over India’s neighbours even as Modi’s foreign policy remains a captive of photo ops and hugs.

The artist provides a slice of his times

Suraj Ghai speaks about his development as an artist, the Delhi of his younger days, his understanding of technique wedded to the creative impulse, and his political enthusiasms.

When the south was one

Historian Vasundhara Filliozat on distortions of history, and how the Karnataka empire ruled over most of south India and fought Muslim invasions.

The caliphate is over but not the terror it spawned

The Islamic State may have fallen apart in Iraq and Syria but it has splintered into terrorist groups that are active in Africa, Central Asia and India.

Enduring enigmas

The acquittal of dentists Rajesh and Nupur Talwar in the Aarushi-Hemraj murders of 2008 leaves unanswered many questions about the testimony of witnesses.

A reporter's life

The uncertain future of Indian agriculture

How do farmers cope in a time of climate change? Resilience and research into hardier crops seems to be the answer.

Ailing land, failing crop

India is self-sufficient in food but the alarms are ringing over its degraded soils. Policy makers regard it as a matter of chemistry rather than the crucible of life.

Aadhaar in the hand of spies

Big Data, global surveillance state and the identity project.