What World is Reading

Monday 11 August '08

Be scared, very scared. The superbugs are here. These are bacteria that have developed immunity to a wide number...

Death in an envelope

Monday 11 August '08

The recent suicide of Bruce E. Ivins, the man the FBI suspects to have been behind the anthrax attacks...

Travelling Tapioca

Sunday 10 August '08

The old joke about Malayalis is that when Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, he met a Malayali tea seller.

Temple tantrum

Monday 28 July '08

For over two weeks now, hundreds of armed personnel have faced off at the ruins of an ancient Hindu temple that for decades...

1983 : The Aftermarth

Monday 21 July '08

A look at the events that unfolded in Sri Lanka after the bloodbath of July 1983.

Vanity Fair

Monday 26 May '08

Another campaign story. This one breaks from the Obama-Hillary battle and returns to 1968, when Bobby Kennedy...

Fuelling Hunger?

Monday 28 April '08

Biofuels are fuels derived from plant forms and are less polluting compared to fossil fuels...

WHAT THE WORLD IS READING

Monday 31 March '08

Eric Alterman uses reams of The New Yorker to look at the life and death of the American newspaper.

A DEMOCRATIC WORLD

Monday 17 March '08

Never before has the world been transfixed by differences between a caucus and a primary and delegates and super delegates as candidates Obama and Clinton fight...

The fuel tank or my plate?

Wednesday 5 March '08

Only Richard Branson could have done it. Late last month, his Virgin Atlantic plane flew from London to Amsterdam...

Gang leader for a day, rogue sociologist all his life

Sunday 10 February '08

A young man in a tie-dye shirt and a ponytail walks into a notorious black ghetto in Chicago and reads out from his clipboard.

Who will take Iowa?

Tuesday 25 December '07

The American president is not voted directly by the people but by an Electoral College, which has members from each of its 50 states.

Hush-hush to UN applause: 3 women & condom campaign

Sunday 26 August '07

The Mayor of Kanpur lowered her voice to a hush. “Condoms?” she blushed. Shikha Arora, a 20-something trainee in her first job at the Delhi office of a US-based public relations firm...

Is excellent journalism bad for business? Maybe, shouldn’t be

Tuesday 17 July '07

Is excellent journalism bad business? A provocative question, coming minutes after 24 journalists were applauded receiving the second Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards...