An industry in troubled waters
An oil company or a mini welfare state? SAMUDRA GUPTA KASHYAP reports on the curious predicament that oil majors face in Assam.



Dance of freedom
My mother wasn't lucky enough to be wheeled through the Red Fort like Stephen Hawking. During the 15 years that she spent on a wheelchair, she never even saw the inside of a shop in India, leave alone a monument.



Kashmir peace process -- A view from the outside
But the peace process could yet collapse before it gets going. Pakistan-based militant groups, especially those dominated by non-Kashmiris, are trying to make that happen, with attacks on Indian security forces and others, one of them at the Red Fort in Delhi, where independent India raised its flag for the first time in 1947.



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