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Issue 160 July 2009

China's naval gazing


4th July 2009 - Issue 160 Free entry

Europe and America can no longer afford to ignore China's increasing influence in the Indian Ocean

Issue 159 June 2009

Obama in Cairo: dare more democracy


4th July 2009 - Issue 159 Free entry

Obama cannot afford to ignore Bush's tentative push for greater democracy in Eqypt

Issue 158 May 2009

The great Dalit hope


4th July 2009 - Issue 158 Free entry

Mayawati, political queen of the untouchables, could become her country's next prime minister. But what does her unlikely rise tell us about the new India?

Sporting life


4th July 2009 - Issue 158

Moving the IPL cricket competition to South Africa is proof of the weakness of the Indian polity and the verve of its business class

Issue 157 April 2009

Travels with the mango king


4th July 2009 - Issue 157

In search of my father and my Pakistani roots I went on a journey to rural Sindh, befriending a mysterious landlord who drank heavily and brandished an AK-47

Issue 154 January 2009

Mumbai's bloodied elite


4th July 2009 - Issue 154

The Mumbai attacks hit India's rich the hardest. They may now take democracy more seriously