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INVESTIGATION
Top leaders lie on oath
Subsidising debt, death
Single house won’t do for servants of the people
Assault rifles hit home
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
FARRUKH DHONDY'S
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EXPOSED
THE OPIUM TRAIL
Politicians caught shielding
drug lords

The story of the foul nexus between the poppy underworld and the political establishment in Uttar Pradesh
SPOTLIGHT   
A FEW GOOD MEN: The changing face of our military
The social profile of cadets joining the armed forces is changing fast. The top brass is now recruiting from premier institutes and non- military families, reports Nitin A. Gokhale
IN FOCUS    
Malti Sharma Murder Case
 Malti Sharma, BJP women’s cell secretary, was killed near Lucknow. The vice-president of the BJP Mahila Morcha, Alka Mishra was arrested for plotting the murder. Vijay Simha traces the tale of two political ambitions taken too far
ESSAYS & OPINIONS   
  SHANKAR SHARMA and DEVINA MEHRA: The myth behind BJP’s boom story
MIKE LEVIEN on how Sardar Sarovar Dam will spell doom for thousands of homes this monsoon
NAZIA YUSUF IZUDDIN: AMU is not sensitive to gender. It’s a tough place for women
THE HUB   
Freefalling in Bollywood
The daily perils of working in the world’s biggest film industry
Shape of Love
Oomph has entirely different proportions in southern cinema
GIRLFRIEND: Women in love?
Karan Razdan’s film has roused the ire of both the liberals and the right wing
Taste the Blunder
A slew of recent ads tout negative social values
   
EXCLUSIVE   
Amitav Ghosh

The Hungry Tide
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TOP SECRET   
A messy temple affair
The Chhattarpur Temple raises Rs 500 crore as donations. The NHRC
report indicates gross mismanagement in temple affairs. But the state administration chooses to
be silent, reports Mayabhushan Nagvenkar
CM helps gymnast become DSP in 18 days!
Punjab Chief Minister's media advisor gets his son, an average sub-junior level gymnast, the post of DSP in 18 days straight, reports Ajmer Singh
INTERNATIONAL   
‘Journalists must expose what’s going on’

Christopher Lockwood,
Editor of The Economist speaks to
Amit Sengupta
   
BEYOND THE HEADLINES   
Till death do us apart
A husband says he has not 'talaqed' his wife. But the village decides otherwise. Surendra Patra visits the village in Orissa
CRUSADE   
 
The cause: right to food
Millions of Indians are trapped in hunger. And the starvation is state-sponsored. A heartrending report by Shobhan Saxena and Amit Sengupta
 
WHAT'S RIGHT ABOUT INDIA
Love for the departed
N Mahadeva makes sure that each unclaimed
corpse gets a decent burial,
reports Chinmayee Manjunath
Keep the watermills turning
IT Power India has found
a unique way to preserve the way of life of thousands of watermillers, reports Irene O’Brien
Modi trigger on Atal-Advani crossfire
The renewed debate within the BJP on whether the Gujarat CM should be replaced is a manifestation of the subterranean battle between Vajpayee and Advani, report Yogesh Vajpeyi and Satyakam Mehta, reports Yogesh Vajpeyi and Satyakam Mehta
Desaffronising: easier said than done
The impression that history is a tool for ideological warfare should be erased, writes PRATAP BHANU MEHTA
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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
DATTATRAY SHEKATAR: Terrorists can buy and sell a briefcase N-bomb against the US
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