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Pakistan’s spy arrests: Brigadier’s kids studied in US, engineer bought home in his own name

Wasim Akram and Brigadier Raja Rizwan, whom Pakistan Army hanged last week for espionage, would not have been caught. But two things went wrong. Abhijit Iyer-Mitra tracks the inside story of one of the most high-profile military espionage cases in recent times.

Whether it’s CM Fadnavis or CM Thackeray, the only winner in Maharashtra is Rahul Gandhi

Last weekend thrust Maharashtra politics into deep uncertainty as the BJP, supported by the NCP’s Ajit Pawar, staked claim to office despite being evidently short of numbers. The decision came just hours before the Congress-NCP-Shiv Sena alliance was to stake claim in the state. Amid this chaos, DK Singh explained how former Congress president Rahul Gandhi, who played virtually no role in the campaign, would emerge the winner of the Maharashtra battle no matter which side eventually won.

BJP could be shrinking politically but is winning big time ideologically

BJP is ruling fewer large, important states now but its big Hindutva ideas have won and face little opposition across the country, Shekhar Gupta writes in this week’s National Interest.

Boroline — the cure-all that is stuck in time but still brings joy, especially to Bengalis

The humble antiseptic cream was a by-product of the Swadeshi movement, but continues to be vouched for — even by the millennials, Fiza Jha writes in last week’s Brandma.

Behind Ajit Pawar’s call to resign — a nudge from ‘Pratibha tai’, Sharad Pawar’s wife

Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Ajit Pawar’s decision to junk his shock BJP tie-up was driven by a family campaign led by the matriarch of the powerful Pawar clan, Haima Deshpande reports.

Year after #MeToo apology, comic Utsav Chakraborty calls out 4 women on Twitter for ‘lies’

Stand-up comic Utsav Chakraborty was among the biggest names that came out as MeToo reached India last year. However, a year later, he has denied all allegations in a series of tweets. Simrin Sirur reports.

If you still don’t understand JNU fee hike protest, read this story of Sunita

Swaraj India president Yogendra Yadav explains the JNU fee protests through the “vantage point of Sunita… an average… young woman” who lives in a village and comes from a farmer’s family that is “not very poor, certainly not below the poverty line”.

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