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FARRUKH DHONDY'S
SIX ESSAYS
ON BOLLYWOOD
INVESTIGATION
• Assault rifles hit home
Assault Rifles Hit Home: PART TWO
• Rifle scam: not first case of Kintex love
NAIPAUL DEBATE
FARRUKH DHONDY debunks William Dalrymple's attack on
 Nobel laureate VS Naipaul
MAHMOOD FAROOQUI questions Dhondy's idea of history
ASLAM QADAR KHAN defends Dalrymple, debunks Dhondy
 
 
TEHELKA'S SIXTEENTH ISSUE IS NOW ONLINE

ELECTION SPECIAL

SONIA GANDHI

THE ART OF THE IMPOSSIBLE
Sonia Gandhi is not extraordinary. But what she has pulled off is more than extraordinary. By Tarun J Tejpal

So, how good was feel good?
An overview of the Elections 2004
 
THE COLD QUESTION
Why didn’t it all add up?
Sankarshan Thakur examines Vajpayee’s tenure as PM
ESSAYS & OPINIONS
AMAN NAMRA on why no political party is interested in implementing its election manifesto
ANEES JILLANI on the Pakistan factor in Indian elections
MATTHIAS BECKER: Despite the US debacle in Iraq, the EU has missed the race
Indian voters must push the threshold of justice and democracy beyond electoral politics, write ARUNA ROY, SHANKER SINGH and NIKHIL DEY
PHOTOFEATURE: ELECTIONS THROUGH THE LENSEYE
SPECIAL REPORT
THE KILL FACTOR
Under pressure from their superiors to produce quick results, army commanders have been regularly resorting to fake killings and encounters in the insurgency-affected areas
NEWSWATCH



This is Kalabati, 13, from Bolangir in Orissa. Her parents mortgaged her for Rs 21 a month. Here is her story...

•The real motive behind Bal Thackeray’s retire-at-65 diktat
THE HUB
What you should read this summer
There’s a book here for every taste. An exciting range of recommendations from an eclectic range of people
The hyphenated Indians
Marriages, sarees and poppadams — that pretty much sums up
the storylines of the NRI novel and films


Heaven on his mind?
Mel Gibson’s much-hyped blockbuster The Passion of the Christ is actually a two-hour bloodbath. Vineetha Mokkil raises a few questions about the film's agenda
SPORT
  ‘Murali chucks his pehla, doosra, teesra’
Bishen Singh Bedi tells Ashish Shukla that Sri Lankan off-spin wizard may have surpassed all records. But he has
never bowled a legal delivery in his life

‘Smiling Assassin’ flirts with danger
WHAT'S RIGHT ABOUT INDIA
Mumbai’s lunch break
At a time when Mumbai witnessed the longest running textile strike in 1982-83, Prema Purav got women to earn for their starving families, reports Supriya Menon
The sunny Side
Stories of people doing the right thing from across the country
 
 
Please don’t manage India for the sensex

The stock exchange fluctuationsare not the real indicators of an economy's health, write DEVINA MEHRA & SHANKAR SHARMA

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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
PRATAP BHANU MEHTA on the legitimacy of exit polls
AARON GLANTZ on George Bush’s new mass graves in Fallujah
PRASHANT BHUSHAN on the Great PSU Robbery  
VIEW THE PAPER
MORE HIGHLIGHTS
In hi-tech Bangalore, taps run dry...
In India’s Silicon Valley, regular water supply is little more than a mirage for over half the population, reports Chinmayee Manjunath
Why I do not vote
Political naiveté, you might say. That’s your prerogative. Not voting is mine. Grant me that space, says Harinder Baweja
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