Real Issue
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Restructuring the Planning Commission
A crack team led by Arun Maira is trying to breathe new life into a fading institution
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India's Highways Follow A Crooked Path
Beneath India's grand scheme to build a world class highway network lies a web of corruption and inefficiency
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Cleaning Up the Indian Patent Office
To seed innovation and attract more patent applications, India needs an efficient system. The new patents chief P.H. Kurian has started with the basics
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Is The Dotcom Craze Back?
For a bubble-wary Internet observer, some of the indicators may seem ominously similar to the dotcom boom. But 2010 is no 1999
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Maxx Mobile: The Shanzhai Warrior
Ajjay Agarwal's Maxx Mobiles is among the clutch of upstarts that used off-the-shelf technology to erode Nokia's dominance in India's mobile phone market. Will the tribe survive the perils of scale?
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Media Agencies Are On The Ropes
Marketing clients are beginning to raise uncomfortable questions about both performance and practices. And media agencies are clearly feeling the heat
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Will Our Trains Ever Be Safe?
One more train accident, hundreds of lives lost again. And the Indian Railways still can't get its act together and implement obvious technology solutions for better safety
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The Real Woman in Hindi TV
Hindi entertainment channels are giving their on-screen woman an identity away from the usual bahu who cooks in the kitchen and schemes in the bedroom
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Identifying the Poor
Like the elephant described by the five wise men of Hindoostan, poverty in India has eluded all definitions. The government is now making yet another attempt to know who really are its poor people...
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The Whethermen
Indian scientists are trying out a new climate model to get monsoon forecasts right. If they can get it to work, expect it to rain when they say it will
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The Law of the Land
Buy land, they're not making it anymore, said Mark Twain. At last, India is moving to secure this basic source of human power