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
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
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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
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
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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