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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 NINETEENTH ISSUE IS NOW ONLINE
12 STEPS TO RECOVERY
An inspired movement is quietly setting people free from the noose of alcohol and drugs, lending hope to millions

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SPOTLIGHT
Headache No 1: ‘Criminal’ Ministers
Having found their feet, and their voices, after being thrown off guard by the Congress victory, the NDA vanguard closes in on the tainted ministers in the UPA. Aman Khanna reports
OPERATION WEST END
Our tapes, your lies
Truth moves on slow wheels, but the wheels do turn. How is the Establishment going to reconcile its shameful role in the Tehelka story? asks Shoma Chaudhury
SPECIAL REPORT
Look who’s poking holes in Mumbai’s oxygen mask
A nexus of politicians, builders and an indifferent administration is destroying the city's mangrove cover that is crucial for the environment, reports Vidyottama Sharma
ESSAYS & OPINIONS
RAKESH SHUKLA : Encounter killings and army atrocities are the norm in 'normal' Kashmir
MIRA KAMDAR: It's bye-bye BJP. Come November will it be bye-bye Bush in the US ?
ADITYA NIGAM: The Left must go beyond stereotypes
PRAKASH LOUIS: Indian minorities have been hounded under the BJP-led regime
THE HUB
RELIGIOUS CHANNELS Primetime faith: push remote button, tune in to spirituality
BOOM! BOY
Did Bollywood's enfant terrible KAIZAD GUSTAD have it coming?
BIG B
The superstar talks to TEHELKA about his image, films and his necessity for work
TRANSMISSION
Exclusive extracts from HARI KUNZRU’s new boo
k
AKSHAY KUMAR
What India's top action hero is like when he is not kicking goons on the sets
NEWSWATCH
Congress priorities: UP, youth, civil society
By Sankarshan Thakur
BJP: the ‘dove’ grounded, hawks fly
By Yogesh Vajpeyi
INTERNATIONAL
CRUSADE
 
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
Beaten and hounded by the cops, the daily life of street hawkers in our metros 
 
WHAT'S RIGHT ABOUT INDIA
In a class of her own
Tulasi Munda’s wish to go to school is unfulfilled, but that has not deterred her from educating tribal children and securing their future, reports Manipadma Jena
Jal sewaks on a mission
Jal sewaks of Srinathji Nishulk Jal Seva, an NGO, are angels for the thirsty passers-by of Madia Katra in Agra, reports Mukta Khandelwal
 
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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
ARJUN DEV: JS Rajput has destroyed NCERT and turned it into an RSS backyard
SALIL TRIPATHI:The one good thing to come out of the Vajpayee era was Arun Shourie
SALMAN HAIDAR on foreign policy challenges before the new regime 
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WRITERS & CITIES
MANOHAR SHETTY looks at Goa and Mumbai through changing passions
FARRUKH DHONDY'S
SIX ESSAYS
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MORE HIGHLIGHTS
No justice in sight for this Musahar boy
Navratan is blind today. For the lower-caste boy, this was the price of disobedience. He did not pluck mangoes as ordered by an upper caste man from a neighbouring village. Mohd Imran Khan reports
NDA report card: it’s F for failure
From farmers committing suicide to people dying in train accidents, from defence and financial scams to crashing MiGs, the NDA’s five years were a disaster, say Amit Sengupta and Shobhan Saxena
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