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gossip
Recession ensures that only popular Indian books rather than literary ones by lesser-known writers would get the advances...
movie review
Makes for smooth and unfussy story-telling. In fact, it tells several stories in one film; all of them taking place a month after the Gujarat riots of '02
10 Questions
The director general of TERI to lead the newly-established Yale Climate and Energy Institute
column
The other day I ran into a psephologist. "This general election will be a turning point in India's political history," he said.
Calcutta Restaurant
Only this dimly-lit, old-world Park Street eatery has made a success of Chelo kabab in India
Cover Story
brahmins in politics
Every party has one: a Brahmin drafting canny political strategy
Gopal Guru : Janeu, The Cat's Cradle
The Other Kautilyas
Y.S.V. Datta : The Hand Of Gowda
Shivanand Tiwari : Swinging Loyalist
Cho S. Ramaswamy : The Cho Must Go On
Sanjaya Baru : Scrivener's Tale
Pranab MukherjeeJairam Ramesh : Messrs Worldly Wise & Wordly Wise
Sitaram Yechury : It's Historically Immaterial, And Yet
Brajesh Mishra : All The King's Men, And Greater Than All
Arun Jaitley : The Second Deck: Jack Be Nimble
Pyarimohan Mohapatra : The Man Who Has Naveen Pat
Satish Chandra Mishra : Poll Science Major & A Math Whiz Too
National
Politics: bjp
Scarcely has the BJP papered over one crisis that another one threatens to explode
opinion
Why harp on Varun's lineage when he has abandoned its ideals?
tamil nadu: lawyers
Striking lawyers let clients learn how to do it
kerala: the church
Kerala's ruling Left falls foul of the Church
Maharashtra: mumbai metro
Project Mumbai Metro hits the brakes
EXCLUSIVE
intelligence agencies: raw
The new RAW chief takes over at a time when morale is at an all-time low and 'recall' cases are rising by the day
ec: voting
The EC gets disabled-friendly for the polls
International
opinion
A peep at life and art in a strife-torn state across the border
opinion
Official India must accept the Dalai Lama's relevance as a moral force
pakistan: people's power
Pakistanis have marched a government onto the right path. Can the movement sustain steam?
pakistan: president zardari
The people have spoken, even his PPP is fed up. The beginning of the end for Zardari?
Business
Economy: Deflation
Looming deflation, bad policies hobble chances of a fast recovery
automobiles: nano
The people's car that raised the aspirations of the common man is out. Will you buy it?
Singur: Nano
Singur mourns as Tatas prepare to roll out the Nano amid fanfare
Society
opinion
A multiplicity of controls leave higher education orphaned
profile
When an army doctor recently told him to continue with his pleurisy medicine until his 100th birthday, Dubey's quick response was "And after that?"
Ecology: the sunderbans
The man-animal conflict in the Sunderbans has touched scores of women tragically, leaving Jelepara a village of 'tiger widows'
Sports
interview
The chief executive of FICA, which represents player associations of seven of the 10 Test-playing nations is bemused by the IPL's refusal to discuss security arrangements
Books
Review
Congress politics wore Madhavrao down towards the end
Vinod Mehta on Madhavrao Scindia: A Life By Vir Sanghvi By Namita Bhandare
Review
Hariharan finally seems to have found the exact tone and language that she is at home in: spartan, elegant and nuanced
Urvashi Butalia on Fugitive Histories By Githa Hariharan
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