Articles
A Slow March To Progress
The Supreme Court’s decision on Section 377 snips away one more tether binding India to its colonial past.
India’s Biggest Bank Fraud
A good casting director would have marked Nirav Modi for the role of heistee, not heister.
The World’s Top Art Detective
Find someone who looks at you the way Jamie Martin looks at his Fourier-transform infrared microscope.
Tiny Museums
Every person deserves a museum of his or her own life, because every life is so irreducibly strange, every mind so infinitely rich.
The Also Rans
In 1967-68, Madras was unstoppable. Bombay hadn’t lost a Ranji final in nine years, but it now seemed vulnerable, prepared to be toppled from its throne. [Purchase Required]
The Bit Player
Fielding in the deep, the player can be outdoors at 9pm, standing under a sky full of light. The bleakness of winter is still many months away. [Purchase Required]
The Local Architect
In the buildings of Balkrishna Doshi, the Indian architect who won this year’s Pritzker Prize, it’s easy to take the light for granted.
A Port in a Storm
Whispers of an effacement — a cruel loan, financial intrigues— began to gust around the village. The near-loss of the harbor two years ago came upon the village like a temblor.
To The Barricades
We inhabit an age of walls, the journalist Tim Marshall observes in Divided. Half of all border barriers erected around the world since 1945 have appeared in this century.