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Turning Points—The Global Agenda
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Letter from the editor
It’s too soon to know if our editors have picked the right turning points of 2011—it’s not always easy to see ‘history’ when living in the middle of it.
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Democracy
It’s a matter of time before the irate Indian takes its leaders to task
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Polity
Democracy just got a bit more democratised. Thank the economy.
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Capitalism In India
All physical, social and political coordinates assail capitalism in India
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Sino-Indian ties
Shared history, not scare-mongering, should ground India-China relations
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Global Integration
The West is down, the East is uncertain. Still, we have spring.
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Occupy the Mind
Democracy’s inviolable tenets are useless in articulating our unfreedom
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Economic Uncertainty
The US and Europe have obfuscated market dealings, that’s why their economies are still faltering while emerging economies gain
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New Arab Leadership
Will Radical Islam hijack what has been a democratic Spring?
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The Vox Populi
Expectations for democratic change, in the Arab world and elsewhere, run high. But there is no guarantee.
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Obama’s Blues
The travails and travels of upperclassmen presidents
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In an age in which multimedia drives change, the camera can still frame drama
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The Nuclear Way
It would be grave folly to recoil from the N-option, our safest
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After Fukushima
It’s time to banish the belief that N-power is clean, green and safe
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The Big Question
Do Gandhi’s and Mandela’s lives tell us more than Stalin’s and Hitler’s?
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The Playboy
The West’s top playboy thrives in his own world
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“There is nothing, sir, too little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.”
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The Princess Metaphor
The pretty, docile creature is passe. Princessing is good, hard work these days.
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The year as it was, within the lines, out of the box
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Bollywood and the World
Pierre, je suis ici... India’s rising star has meant new respect for B’wood
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Eclectica
Scratch an Indian hard—scratch yourself hard!—and you will find that it’s still a tiny oyster we inhabit in our mind’s eye
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This special commemorative issue was brought out as a stand alone publication
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