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Bangalore Pride

Every queer pride parade in an Indian city is a sort of landmark event. But not every parade reveals a whole new sexual category before it’s over. At Bangalore Pride 2012, which was held last…
PUBLISHED: May 13, 2013
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2593 words)

Inside the Oscar Pistorius Murder Case: What Paths Took the Couple to That Final Night?

When Oscar Pistorius—the South African “Blade Runner,” who overcame a double amputation to compete in the Olympics last year—shot his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, on…
AUTHOR:Mark Seal
PUBLISHED: June 1, 2013
LENGTH: 32 minutes (8083 words)

Mangoes of Wrath

Mirza Ghulam Ahmad began the Ahmadiyya faith when he declared himself a prophet in 1889, in his hometown of Qadian in India. This runs counter to Muslim belief that Mohammed was the last of the…
LENGTH: 2 minutes (654 words)

The Luckiest Village in the World

When you come upon the luckiest village in the world, all the curtains are drawn. The old man outside the bar gazes at you warily. Then he disappears inside, the door slapping shut. Is it that you're…
SOURCE:www.gq.com
PUBLISHED: May 6, 2013
LENGTH: 26 minutes (6608 words)

Dog Days

Photos by Emon Hassan Maria Laskaris presses the red button on her hot dog cart to light the propane stove, and the clicking sound reverberates onto Water Street. The flood ransacked the seaport, and…
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2993 words)

Love, luck and destiny: the world according to a Mumbai matriarch

Updated April 30, 2013 11:50:51 My name is Amrit Solanki. I was born in Gujarat. I have spent most of my life in Mumbai.I was engaged at the age of two months and married when I was 12 years old.My…
PUBLISHED: March 28, 2013
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3672 words)

Structural revolution - FT.com

Beijing’s ancient lanes, or hutongs, are under threat from developers. The FT’s Beijing correspondent, who lives in an old courtyard house, reports on the battle over preserving…
SOURCE:www.ft.com
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1676 words)

The Mind of a Con Man

Diederik Stapel, a Dutch social psychologist, perpetrated an audacious academic fraud by making up studies that told the world what it wanted to hear about human nature. One summer night in 2011, a
PUBLISHED: April 26, 2013
LENGTH: 26 minutes (6609 words)

The Big One?

We are at a mysterious fork in the road. One path leads to years, perhaps decades, of spread of a new type of influenza, occasionally making people sick and killing about 18 percent of them. It's not…
PUBLISHED: April 23, 2013
LENGTH: 26 minutes (6514 words)
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