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By Sankarshan Thakur
Bharat Ratna
Why it has become such an unseemly queue to the top honour
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Third Front
It is not what Karat says, it is the timing of his statement
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Understanding Pakistan
Requiem For A Nation
By Fatima Bhutto
There's never a let-up in Pakistan's stalemate with violence-all that changes year to year are the victims
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‘Mother paused and told me Kunkan had been forced to flee to his land'
By KA Antony

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The Easy Way To Arms And Violence
By Anurag Tripathi
The increasing flood of cheap weapons gives the growing rage and conflict in India a very dangerous dimension READ »

Rs 70,000 Can Get You An AK-47
By Anurag Tripathi and Etmad A. Khan
A report on a meeting with smugglers in UP who offered to supply an entire arsenal of weapons READ »
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 Columns

Media Watch
Nano Mein Sapna: Tata's Dream Launcher
Santosh Desai
The week ended with a euphoria that was difficult to argue with. Cricket became a war and a bloody one at that READ »

Do Bigha Zameen
An Elegy For A Library
Suneetha B.
The British Council says maintenance was not possible since the library required an investment of a million pounds READ »

Culture Vulture
Bad Carma
Anita Roy
Why not go the whole hog and simply enshrine motor vehicle rights in our national constitution READ »

Change: Notes On Survival
Fragile Loot
Surya Prakash
Poachers pose a big menace to butterflies in India. Large-scale smuggling is the biggest threat to many species of Himalayan butterflies
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Cricket
Spun In Steel: An Intimate account
By Anand Vasu
Anil Kumble has had to turn many a hurdle on its head. But his focus, and principles, have remained unerring READ »SlideShow


In Cold Blood
'I Dare Mayawati To Arrest Me'
By Anurag Tripathi
SP general secretary Amar singh tells that UP CM Mayawati is to be blamed for the unrest in the state
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Buzz
A Politically Incorrect Fairytale
By Marc Parent
Smoky Carla Bruni is more than just a diplomatic riddle on Sarkozy's arm. A writing from Paris, that unravels her colourful past READ»

 

Burrabazaar Fire
Kolkata Inferno
By Shantanu Guha Ray
Is there more to the Burrabazar fire than we are being told? READ »
 
 

Reminiscence

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A Tribute To Edmund Hillary

By Jamling Tenzing Norgay
Opinion
» Failing Our Women
By Amlan Saha
 

Assam
Sister Concern
By Teresa Rehman
ULFA's exiled commander-in-chief Paresh Baruah's sister is contesting panchayat polls. She says she wants 'development', not a 'sovereign Assam'
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Former Kerala CM K. Karunakaran

By KA Shaji

Kashmir
» In Icy Times, A Mirwaiz Mirage
By Peerzada Arshad Hamid
 

Retail
Gameplan Retail, Part II
By Vivek Sinha & Morgan Harrington
Troubled over nationwide protests against retail, companies are re-shaping their strategies to counter the heat READ »

 
 
Interview
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KV Kamath: 'In Banking it always pays to think young'

By Shantanu Guha Ray
Retail
» 'Old activities become obsolete'
By Shubhashis Gangopadhyay
  
  Cinema
'I am not Shah Rukh Khan. I need scripts. I need characters'
By Mintty Tejpal
Halla Bol is a negligible film. Yet, Pankaj Kapur manages to tower over it. An interview with a man who's played some of Hindi cinema's most distinct characters READ»
 
 
Art
» Mumbai, A Monster City, A Monster Love
By Arshad Said Khan
 
Manil Suri Interview
» 'No Magic Realism'
By Lakshmi Indrasimhan
 

Displacement
Land For the Landed?
By Manshi Asher and Manju Menon
With two new crucial Bills, the State is set to give itself even more teeth to aid the corporate takeover of land READ »

 
 
What's Right About India
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Keeping Nobody's School Open

By Neha Dixit
Ecology
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A River Reborn

By KA Shaji

By Shantanu Guha Ray
As the national airline slips into the red, the civil aviation ministry and unions disagree on the causes — and the solution READ »


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