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'The Ingrained Values Of Indian Culture'
'The Astonishing Embrace Of Nonsense'
So Who Demolished The Babri Masjid?
Dispatches: Terror in Mumbai -- Channel 4 Documentary
And Now, Vikram Seth's Suitable Girl
'My Hand Went And Touched His Cheek'
A Letter to Ali Khameini
The HRD Minister's Report Card
MJ, Another Tribute
Beat It, You Fanatics

BANGALORE BYTE

SUGATA SRINIVASARAJU

Creation Mythology

All through history, Karnataka was only an imagined home of the Kannada-speaking people. It was a cultural construct and a poetic fancy with no specific political or geographical formation to back it up... ...

Web | Jul 03, 2009



APPRECIATION

Tyeb Mehta (1925-2009)

A compilation of some of his more celebrated paintings.



O JERUSALEM 

SEEMA SIROHI

Museum Of Intolerance

Miracles do happen in the Holy Land and one might be happening right now -- ultra Orthodox Jews have joined hands with Muslim and leftist Israelis to save an old Muslim cemetery in the heart of central Jerusalem from becoming rubble under a new Jewish museum. ...

Web | Jul 03, 2009



ICT IN INDIA

NANDAN NILEKANI

Single Citizen ID

Getting rid of our phantoms: Much before his appointment as the head of the national ID card project, the Infosys co-founder elaborated on the benefits of such a scheme......

Magazine | Dec 01, 2008



DEBATE

CSSE

Beyond Reservations

While there seems to be some positive movement in the form of the proposed Equal Opportunity Commission Bill, following the recommendations of the Sachar Committee, these measures are too important to be passed in haste and without wider public debate....

Web | Jul 01, 2009



MEMORIES

MICHAEL JACKSON

(Not) Growing Up With MJ

To me Michael and his music were there when I was sad, when my parents fought, when growing up seemed like a pain (at some point I think I stopped trying!), mellowing with me, understanding me and never doubting or questioning me.

RACHANA DEB

Web | Jun 30, 2009



Michael Jackson
(1958 -2009)


The man they called the King of Pop: A life in pictures





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OPINION

KAUSHIK BASU

Degrees Of Heresy

A member's dissenting note to the Yashpal panel report ...

Magazine | Jul 06, 2009
FOR THE RECORD

'The Magic Of The Human Spirit And Of A Nation's Passion'

A victory for gay rights as Delhi HIgh Court holds: 'We declare that Section 377 IPC, insofar as it criminalises consensual sexual acts of adults in private, is violative of Articles 21, 14 and 15 of the Constitution'...

S.MURALIDHAR, J

Web | Jul 02, 2009



MUMBAI MUSINGS

SMRUTI KOPPIKAR

The Link To Nowhere

In the middle of celebrations over the 5.6 kilometre new stretch of concrete road, over the sea linking Bandra and Worli, it is hard to sound rational, let alone sceptical. But it is difficult to miss some obvious questions......

Web | Jul 02, 2009



OPINION

NANDAN NILEKANI

Building A Green Economy

The big question for India here is how it can reconcile its own goals with the aim of building an effective global climate deal. Clearly, the need is to combine a tough climate stand with a low-carbon approach that doesn't have to be anti-development....

Web | Jul 02, 2009



VIEW FROM ISRAEL

URI AVNERY

Between Tel Aviv And Tehran

Hundreds of thousands demonstrated in Teheran. Can anyone imagine this in Cairo? A thousand in Amman? In Saudi Arabia, there are never protests against election results -- simply because there are no elections. In Iran, however, there are elections, and how! ......

Web | Jul 01, 2009



DOSSIER

The Ayodhya Files

With the Liberhan commission report to be tabled in Parilament in the budget session, the case surrounding the Babri demolition is back in focus. A collection of articles from the archives



IRAN

SHUDDHABRATA SENGUPTA

Inquilab Zindabad?

While the government of India, mindful of its cynical interests, is silent, let us remember the origin of these words......

Web | Jun 30, 2009



VIEW FROM UK

GEORGE MONBIOT

Dealing With Drug Users 

The UN's proposal for decriminalisation is senseless and destructive. We should help addicts, but lock up the casual users of cocaine ...

Web | Jun 30, 2009



MUMBAI 26/11

B. RAMAN

BBC's Unlikely Story

Did the TV coverage of the Mumbai attacks enable the LET's controlling officers in Pakistan to give precise instructions to the terrorists? Or was there a Mumbai-based sleeper cell of the LET that was communicating details of the police deployments and movements in and around the targeted areas?......

Web | Jun 29, 2009



OPINION

DILIP HIRO

The Classic Dilemma

Until the June 12th election, post-Shah Iran seemed to indicate that Islam and democracy could work in harmony. The upheaval since then has demonstrated that when strains between the two concepts develop, it is democracy that gets short shrift....

Web | Jun 29, 2009



CONTROVERSY

IIPM Makes Another Claim - Over To You Mr. Sibal

IIPM claims to award MBA/BBA from University of Buckingham, and the University denies having any arrangement with IIPM as of date. The false claims continue.

MAHESH SARMA



EXCLUSIVE: HAJ
TAKING ACCOUNT


Pilgrim's Regress

Months later, panel asks last year's Hajis to pay some more...

DEBARSHI DASGUPTA

Magazine | Jul 06, 2009



WEST BENGAL: LALGARH

The People, The Enemy?

Take out the Maoists, take back the people. The Left Front has a plan for Lalgarh, but can it overcome past mistakes?.........

SMITA GUPTA

Magazine | Jul 06, 2009



GOSSIPING

Psst...Heard This One?

Everybody loves a good gossip, and none more than politicians—it keeps 'em going

SHEELA REDDY

Magazine | Jul 06, 2009
India's Best Gossips


IRAN: POLL PROTESTS

The Revolution, The Hush

Iran may be on the boil but an ever cautious India, mindful of its interests, is refusing to take sides......

PRANAY SHARMA

Magazine | Jul 06, 2009



US: RELIGIOUS FREEDOM

Access Denied

Why is India afraid of a US commission on religious freedom?...

ASHISH KUMAR SEN

Magazine | Jul 06, 2009



MAHARASHTRA: STUDENT RESERVATION

Is This Class War?

On poll-eve, Cong-NCP government gives SSC students a leg up.........

SMRUTI KOPPIKAR

Magazine | Jul 06, 2009



BUSINESS: RELIANCE

Gasified Assets

An HC ruling on how the Ambanis should share gas raises questions...

LOLA NAYAR

Magazine | Jul 06, 2009



HYDERABAD: FRAUD

One-Way Ticket

The online con. Hyderabadis can't say no.......

VENUGOPAL PILLAI

Magazine | Jul 06, 2009



TREND: LEARNING SANSKRIT

Wax Sanskritic

Urban young are rediscovering the lure of the classical language......

RACHNA BISHT-RAWAT

Magazine | Jul 06, 2009



HEALTH: SWINE FLU

It's Flu-For-All

No screening at the gates where it matters...

AMBA BATRA BAKSHI

Magazine | Jul 06, 2009



HYDERABAD: CONTROVERSY

Fielding Shame

Harassment's indignity visits women cricketers

VENUGOPAL PILLAI

Magazine | Jul 06, 2009



REVIEW

To Reclaim The Core

India's friable 'system' needs a refit. A few good men cannot cope with its systemic turpitude in vital areas.

Raja Menon on India In Turmoil: Jammu & Kashmir, The Northeast And Left Extremism by Ved Marwah

RAJA MENON

Magazine | Jul 06, 2009



MOVIE REVIEW

Paying Guests

Yet another in the line of the silly, mass-produced comedies that have become a norm in Bollywood

NAMRATA JOSHI

Magazine | Jul 06, 2009



10 QUESTIONS

MAHI GILL

Mahi Gill

After Dev D and Gulal, this newbie has secured her standing in the world of serious cinema

LATA KHUBCHANDANI

Magazine | Jul 06, 2009









OPINION

R.K. RAGHAVAN

House of No Exit

A newer India must extirpate institutional indulgence for corruption......

Magazine | Jul 06, 2009



OPINION

GOPALKRISHNA GANDHI

Deaf To The Countdown

How long can we live in denial of imminent annihilation?......

Magazine | Jul 06, 2009



TRIBUTE

ALI AKBAR KHAN

I Become The Rabab

A lodestar of music is no more. A disciple grieves, a devout finds grace.

KEN ZUCKERMAN

Magazine | Jul 06, 2009



OPINION

K.C. SINGH

Gambit For The Vizier

In Iran, the play of forces ranges against the Supreme Leader...

Magazine | Jul 06, 2009



OPINION

MALAVIKA SANGGHVI

Stratospheric Chic

High-fliers know their codes on the Mumbai-Delhi business class...

Magazine | Jul 06, 2009



POLL SUTRA

The Secret Diary Of Rahul Gandhi

Imitation, they say, is the sincerest form of flattery. And boy, am I pleased as punch with Advaniji (or should I say LK uncle).........

AJITH PILLAI

Magazine | Jul 06, 2009



LAST PAGE

Tokyo Diary

I walked up and down the street thrice to locate the memorial to William Adams, shipwrecked Englishman who taught the Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu gunnery, geography and mathematics, and whose life inspired James Clavell to write the bestseller Shogun (1975)...

SHASHIKIRAN MULLUR



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