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Irom And The Iron In India’s Soul
IROM SHARMILA’S story should be part of universal folklore. In the tenth year of her epic fast, SHOMA CHAUDHURY tells you why READ »

Weapons Of Mass Desperation

Operation Green Hunt, the offensive against Naxals, might blow up in our faces. SHOMA CHAUDHURY examines the tricky and dangerous terrain READ »

 
 

A Dangerous Move
Amending the Right to Information Act would be a retrograde step READ>>


Kashmir’s Desperate GASP For Pease
If Delhi doesn’t act fast, none will be left at the negotiation table READ>>


Spare the Madrassas

These schools are not terrorist hubs, as the RSS alleges. The threat comes from the RSS-run Ekal schools READ »


‘6 December 1992. A Blood-Soaked History. VCD. Rupees 20 Only’
Is 44. She is a Delhi-based documentary filmmaker READ »


LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

IT’S IN KEEPING with the commitment we made last December. All year we would chase hard facts and interpret them, but at the very end READ»





Daman Singh
Best Friend


Mohan Sikka
The Billboard


Aseem Kaul
Desanguination

Karan Mahajan
The Fourth Type Of Writer

Paromita Vohra
In Exchange

Aruni Kashyap
The Day Of The Yellow Flowers

Parvati Sharma
The More Loving One

Arul Mani
In Dubash Battle

Sujit Saraf
A Good Day In Connaught Place

Gaurav Solanki
Beyond Fear

Charu Nivedita
Morgue Keeper

Kuzhali Manickavel
Anarch

 


Orissa
The After Kill Of Narayanpatna
The bloodshed may have halted, but violence, fear and the possibility of starvation still haunt. SANJANA reports from the remote Orissa town where police killed two Adivasis last month READ »


Interview
‘Mayawati Is Insecure As A Woman And Dalit’
Shahid Siddiqui, 58, Editor of Urdu daily Nai Duniya, is better known for his political avatar. He switched from the SP to Mayawati’s BSP, from which he was expelled recently. Full version of an hour-long interview with HARINDER BAWEJA READ»


Opinion
State Of The Matter
By ASHOK MALIK Senior Journalist
The creation of a separate Telangana entity could rejig the parameters that have defined state-making in post-Independence India READ»

 

Russia
Yesterday, Once More
The thaw in Indo-Russian ties on the back of the Obama invite to Manmohan Singh is a double whammy for India. HARINDER BAWEJA felt the warmth in Moscow READ »


 
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In The Eye Of A Storm

By RANA AYYUB
 
Jessica Lall case
» Parole And Prejudice
By SHOBHITA NAITHANI
 

Entrepreneurs
Slowdown Saviour India
Made edgy by the global slowdown, scores of Americans and Europeans are being drawn to Happening Place India, says KUNAL MAJUMDER READ »

 
 
Poultry
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Egged On By Success

By ADELINE BERTIN
Advertising
» Cutting ‘Adge’
By SHANTANU GUHA RAY
 
 

Photo Feature
The Gods Eat Biscuits
Long past their golden age, the bahurupis of Bengal get by on a prayer and the hearts of the faithful, reports SAMRAT CHAKRABARTI. Photos by TUMPA MONDAL READ»

 

 

 

Books

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The Butterfly’s Notes

By ARUL MANI

Books

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Our Levitating Prejudice

  By ANAND TELTUMBDE
 
 

Toxic Diaries
Death In Small Doses
SUDHANSHU MALHOTRA turns his empathetic eye on lives, precarious and depleted from exposure to DDT READ»

 
 

Unfairy Tales 6

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Right To Education: A Longer March

By PUJA MARWAHA

Cancer

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Cancer Ward: Open To The Sky

By CHIRODEEP CHAUDHURI

 


Music
Two Strings to the Bow
ADELINE BERTIN lends an ear to a band with a varied and interesting soupcon of flavours Read »

 
 
Gold
Shining Bright
The dollar decline and increased investor demand have meant that gold prices seem on an unending spike, says MANAV CHOPRA Read »
 
 

Caste Politics
The Write Way
This gritty Dalit woman author has quit the BSP to launch her own party in Tamil Nadu. PC VINOJ KUMAR on her never-say-die mantra Read »


Corruption
The Corrupt Empowered
The inside story of how the chairman of the Damodar Valley Corporation was appointed even while he was under the scanner of the Central Vigilance Commission. Brijesh Pandey reports Read »

 
 
 
 
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