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TEHELKA'S FOURTEENTH ISSUE IS NOW ONLINE

TOP LEADERS LIE ON OATH

Trust our politicians to tweak
any law. As Harinder Baweja and Aman Khanna find out, the disclosures of their assets are nothing but lies and an
effort to hoodwink the people, whose fundamental right to
know was upheld by a landmark Supreme Court judgement


ESSAYS & OPINIONS
PRATAP BHANU MEHTA comments on the legitimacy of exit polls
• JOHN JENNINGS on Karzai clique and Afghan warlords
India is becoming the latest sex trade centre: FLAVIA AGNES
Gross public conduct is dulling our conscience, says
   SHOMA CHAUDHURY
NAIPAUL DEBATE
...And Unquiet Flows The Ganges
Sankarshan Thakur travels across north Bihar mid-campaign to meet a few ordinary men whose lives have little to do with the big leaders who rule in their name
Ballia lives out Chandrashekhar’s curse
Former prime minister Chandrashekhar’s constituency is as bad as it gets in terms of development and yet, it will return to power the man responsible for its misery, reports Vijay Simha
‘It is my pleasure to be targeted’
Thirty-three-year old Rahul Gandhi may be a political greenhorn but Amethi would like to believe otherwise. Rashme Sehgal speaks to the latest public figure from the Nehru-Gandhi stable

Giant Baiter: Ram Jethmalani
‘I’ll expose Vajpayee before the elections'
Veteran lawyer challenges the prime minister in Lucknow

 

Munnabhai ke papaji set to pass with flying colours
Sunil Dutt’s own charisma is enhanced by his son’s
character and this makes him a formidable opponent,
reports Vidyottama Sharma
Make no mistake about it, we live in a dictatorship
So many people have given up on this country for what it has dished out that the vote is more of a farce than a right, writes Minty Kunwar Tejpal
Goonda tax and the Haryanvi dynasty
No one’s buying the muscle power of the Sicilian Chautalas in Bhiwani, reports Amit Sengupta
PHOTOESSAY
SPECIAL REPORT
SECRET OF THE RED FORT
It is quite easy to be a psephologist in West Bengal. But what is it that makes the Left Front so predictably unbeatable? Nitin A. Gokhale takes a close look at the CPM’s electoral steamroller that has left the Opposition in the state flattened, election after election

SPORT
What’s wrong with Brian Lara’s new record?
Everything, feels VIJAY NAMBISAN. He argues that the West Indian captain only played for personal glory
DONS IN POLITICS
AKSHAY PRATAP SINGH
The don, who is fighting dreaded UP ganglord Raja Bhaiyya’s proxy poll, may have a suave and soft-spoken exterior. But he is lethal within, reports Yogesh Vajpeyi
THE HUB
THE EYE OF THE HOMOSEXUAL
A profile of photographer
SUNIL GUPTA
WHY AISHWARYA ?
SHOBHAA DE on the misguided
TIME 100 list
FASHION WEEK
What makes
a model hot
SHAHRUKH KHAN
‘My film is a great roller coaster ride’
The star on his latest movie , Main Hoon Na
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Writers on Tehelka
VS NAIPAUL: Hi-tech societies do not need intellectual life
PANKAJ MISHRA: The pull of Fascism
HARI KUNZRU on British racism
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INVESTIGATION
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WHAT'S RIGHT
ABOUT INDIA
One step at a time
Stree Jagriti Samiti teaches lessons of life that would change the way teenage girls deal with the ‘big and bad’ world around them, reports Chinmayee Manjunath
We shall overcome
Anjali Waghmare, a lawyer, aims to make police officers’ wives self-reliant
, repots Supriya Menon
The sunny side
Stories of people doing the right thing from across the country
MORE HIGHLIGHTS
Disabled group to keep tabs on polls
A Supreme Court order enables the Disabled Rights Group to monitor polling booths to ensure facilities to the physically handicapped, reports Irene O’Brien
Where farmers have no one to bank on
Rural banks in Maharashtra
have stopped giving loans
to farmers, defying the
very reason for which they
were established, reports Suyash Padate
The colours of justice
Sangh Parivar outfits in Gujarat are outraged after the historic Best Bakery judgement, writes BATUK VORA
 
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