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‘Youngistan’ Politics
A youth revolution only for the scions of political dynasties is a hollow one
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Serving Rape Lite
An astounding cast of extras has assembled around a tragic crime Read>>


Restoring Green in the Valley

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‘Everything Was Rubble And Dust. Bhuj, When We Arrived, Was A Circus’
Is 33. She is an artist based in Bengaluru READ »


FADING CRIMSON FLAMING ANGER
By Shantanu Guha Ray
The desperate battle for Lalgarh might recapture land for the Left, but the hearts and minds of its denizens are lost to them.

‘Rural Bengal Is Still Our Strength’

CPM State Secretary Biman Bose admits that Lalgarh is a problem, but claims that the Left Front’s rural base is still strong

‘Bengal Is In A State Of Turmoil’
Mamata Banerjee says the Left Front’s misrule created the Lalgarh problem

A Strange And Bitter Crop
By Sanjana
An ambitious RSS social engineering project is transporting children from Meghalaya to Karnataka to bring them up ‘the Hindu way,’

‘The Children Will Champion Hinduism’
At the Kalyan Ashram in Shillong, Prafulla Chandra Koch and Sukanto Borman, two RSS workers, talked with TEHELKA about what the RSS hopes to gain through the programme. Both refused to be photographed.

‘I Begged Them For My Son’s Number’
She believed the RSS when they said a better future awaited Iohi but didn’t have the money to bring him back

To Kashmir, Chhattisgarh, Manipur and Nagaland, we can now add Lalgarh


India is signalling its willingness to engage Pakistan’s civilian establishment





In Cold Blood
‘The Morale Of The Mumbai Police Was Down’
By Rana Ayyub
Defending his committee’s 26/11 report, RD Pradhan tells RANA AYYUB why it nailed the police chief but absolved the larger police force READ »


Special Report
Bringing Out The Dead
By PC Vinoj Kumar
Only dalits wield the scalpel in Tamil Nadu’s mortuaries. Successive generations work in sordid conditions and see no way out READ»


Militancy
The Chase For The Invisible Man
By Teresa Rehman
After 30 years, Paresh Baruah is still the only ULFA leader never to be caught READ»

 

Interview
‘Confusion Over Hindutva Cost The BJP’
ByNeha Dixit
NDA convener Sharad Yadav tells NEHA DIXIT that the the BJP must shoulder the greater portion of the blame for the poll debacle READ »

 
 
Political Game
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Clocking Its Last Hours

By Rana Ayyub
Maharashtra
» Rise Of A Rogue Hero
By Rana Ayyub
 

Telecom
Hand, Set And Match For Beijing
By Anil Kumar
Trashing security concerns, A Raja’s telecom ministry gives a Chinese conglomerate a Rs 10,000 crore gift READ »

 
 
Air India
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The Cashless Maharaja

By Shantanu Guha Ray
Twotier
» Halfway Home Forever
By Nisha Susan
 

Queer Right
Quilts Of Love
By Amrita Nandy-Joshi
Queer Pride Week comes once a year but millions of Indian women fight all year round — as women, ‘single’ women and lesbians READ»

 

 

 

Art
In The Idylls Of Small Gods
By Nisha Susan

 

 

 

Music

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Torrential Ragas

By Veda Aggarwal
 

Books

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Right To Be Offended

By Salil Tripathi
 
Art
» Touch-Tone Love
  By Nisha Susan
 
 

Recession
Into Darker Hearths
By Devika Jain
The female workforce from the deprived sections has been seriously hit by the global economic crisis READ»

 
 

Guest Column

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Jury On Trial

By Nityanand Jayaraman

 

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Jail House Play

By Shriya Mohan

 

Nano
The Nano and its Discontents
By Venu Madhav Govindu and Deepak Malghan
As the Tata Nano is launched to the accompaniment of thunderous acclaim across India, academics Venu Madhav Govindu and Deepak Malghan - debate the appropriateness of the Nano industrialisation READ »

 
 
Interview
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‘I’m not an international don that I will kidnap Chand’

By Shobhita Naithani
Love
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Loverboy takes on Shotgun in poll fray that also has a Love Guru

By Shantanu Guha Ray
 
 
 
 
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