COVER

The Survivor (United States)

A trusted aide to six Presidents, Robert Gates is the most powerful Defense Secretary in a generation. But what is the Republican at the head of Obama's war room fighting for?

ASIA

Postcard from New Delhi

Thanks to rising disposable incomes, designer hairstyling is finally making the cut with India's middle class. Take a chair in the coiffured world of Jawed Habib

ESSAY

Shifting Ground

Beijing's spats with Washington are not to be ignored, yet neither are they game-changing

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Loose Canon (Music)

Chochukmo's debut doesn't get the production the band sorely deserves

LETTERS