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Jyoti Basu: memorial

House Warming

Bangladesh plans a memorial at Jyoti Basu’s ancestral village

Sep 13, 2010

| Sandeep Bhushan
encounter deaths: Chemkuri azad

Shoot And Shut Up

Despite the reports that Azad was killed in cold blood, the State feigns innocence

Sep 13, 2010

| Anuradha Raman Saikat Datta
- “We’re With The Report Filed By The State. People Can Say Anything.”
publishing: teen authors

Five Go To Gutenberg

Good ol’ Enid Blyton they’ve outgrown. These kids are writing tales of their own.

Sep 13, 2010

| Arpita Basu
review

A Pre-Fab Earthquake

The foreteller of the financial crash ignores a Left-Right binary, faults endemic inequality and political quick-fix

Sep 13, 2010

| Gurcharan Das
andhra pradeshL polavaram dam

Godavari: The New Narmada?

Will Polavaram be another ecocide zone? Not if we apply the Vedanta logic to it.

Sep 13, 2010

| Madhavi Tata
khaps: protest

Not To Be Scene

Khaps decry film, serial on honour killings

Sep 13, 2010

| Namrata Joshi Chandrani Banerjee
review

Cinema Bhojpuri

A joy to read and informative; the footnotes are as interesting as the narrative itself

Sep 13, 2010

| Bhaichand Patel
kerala: lotteries

Bummer Ticket

The lotteries drain a hoodwinked Kerala

Sep 13, 2010

| John Mary
opinion

Ustad Autoxerox’s Aria

Perhaps it’s apt that Rahman sold the scam-tainted CWG a lemon

Sep 13, 2010

| Sadanand Menon
review

Before He Was God: Ramayana—Reconsidered, Recreated

Varma’s intense engagement with his subject yields moving insights, while humorous and tragical interludes lend immediacy.

Sep 13, 2010

| Namita Gokhale
sports: FIVB RULES

This Is Not Just Babewatch

A dress code for women playing beach volleyball puts Indians in an uncomfortable position

Sep 13, 2010

| Pushpa Iyengar
society: health

The Young Are Ageing

More teens are getting cardiac problems today. Is it stress, the lifestyle or just the air?

Sep 13, 2010

| Amba Batra Bakshi Snigdha Hasan Dola Mitra
match-fixing

Hell, High Water...And Now This

The Pakistan cricket team was a last ray of hope for a marooned nation. The match-fixing scandal has snuffed that one out too.

Sep 13, 2010

| Amir Mir
controversy: Cairn Energy

Block, Stock And Barrel

With the government firmly opposed to the Cairn sellout, Vedanta has hit another roadblock

Sep 13, 2010

| Lola Nayar
technology: open source

Open Sesame

Open standard technology is at hand as the main e-governance platform

Sep 13, 2010

| Arindam Mukherjee
healthcare: new paradigms

Arishtopathic Pills

Hospitals are discovering the advantages of an integrated approach

Sep 13, 2010

| Debarshi Dasgupta

match-fixing

Hell, High Water...And Now This

The Pakistan cricket team was a last ray of hope for a marooned nation. The match-fixing scandal has snuffed that one out too.

Sep 13, 2010

| Amir Mir
opinion

The Napalm Treatment

Dismiss PCB and the team. Build afresh from the grassroots.

Sep 13, 2010

| Kamran Shafi
india

Heal Thyself

For cricket’s corrupt forces, the game in India is ripe for the picking

Sep 13, 2010

| Smruti Koppikar Rohit Mahajan
opinion

A Game Lost With The Flip Of A Coin

Cricket owes its crisis to a culture pock-marked with profit motive

Sep 13, 2010

| Mike Marqusee

10 Questions

Anupam Mukerji

He’s the fake IPL player, the blogger known for his fake behind-the-scene account of IPL II

Sep 13, 2010

| Paromita Mukhopadhyay
gossip

Bibliofile

From Pom Pom Darling and Lady Chengis Khan to Tome Tome Dahlings

Sep 13, 2010

| Outlook
Last Page

Sittilingi Diary

Wednesday evening, we had a four-foot cobra, Thursday night a spider as big as my hand, and Friday night a five-inch scorpion...

Sep 13, 2010

| Vijay Nambisan
bangalore restaurant

Kalinga Korma

If you want to roll up your sleeves, dig in with your fingers and be pleasantly surprised by the bill

Sep 13, 2010

| Sumana Mukherjee
review

Cinema Bhojpuri

A joy to read and informative; the footnotes are as interesting as the narrative itself

Sep 13, 2010

| Bhaichand Patel
review

A Pre-Fab Earthquake

The foreteller of the financial crash ignores a Left-Right binary, faults endemic inequality and political quick-fix

Sep 13, 2010

| Gurcharan Das
review

Before He Was God: Ramayana—Reconsidered, Recreated

Varma’s intense engagement with his subject yields moving insights, while humorous and tragical interludes lend immediacy.

Sep 13, 2010

| Namita Gokhale
The Secret Diary Of

Mazhar Majeed

'Remember to wear a black shoe on your left foot and a sandal on the right. There’s a lot of money riding on it'

Sep 13, 2010

| Ajith Pillai
Showtime

Aashayein

Fails to measure up to what it is inspired from — the most famous 'death' film, Anand.

Sep 13, 2010

| Namrata Joshi
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