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online censorship

Status Update? Bad

Assailed from all sides, does the UPA really hope to recover its ‘image’ by muzzling online dissent?

Dec 19, 2011

| Debarshi Dasgupta
online censorship

Indecent Proposals

Sibal’s actions may lead to IT Act nixing freedoms

Dec 19, 2011

| Arindam Mukherjee
online censorship

Immortal Kombat?

Social sites begetting violence is a poor ruse

Dec 19, 2011

| Outlook
online censorship

Blip The ‘T’ Words

Great Firewall of China keeps netizens corralled

Dec 19, 2011

| Outlook
democracy

Cacophony Colonnade

Our democracy is creaking, but it works—nominally at least. What it needs is not dilution, but deepening.

Dec 19, 2011

| Saba Naqvi

politics: bjp

Another Mask?

A desperate BJP falls back on Vajpayee visions

Dec 19, 2011

| Prarthna Gahilote
opinion

Red Ink From The Octopus

Journalists working underworld links are in danger from all sides

Dec 19, 2011

| Ajith Pillai
opinion

Call The Pathologist

The torture of Soni Sori is worse than what the Raj ever inflicted

Dec 19, 2011

| Neelabh Mishra
west bengal: mamata

Shroud Of Paled Hope

Six months on, Mamata’s TMC has ill-used the carte blanche given it by Bengal’s voters

Dec 19, 2011

| Dola Mitra
security: nia

Where Is Dick?

The NIA’s investigations have been sub par

Dec 19, 2011

| Chandrani Banerjee
states: services delivery

Serve Dharma

A few states show the way by notifying the right to service

Dec 19, 2011

| Lola Nayar
face-off: lokpal bill

Cold Draft Of Dissent

Having concentrated his energies on a strong Lokpal bill, Arvind Kejriwal expresses disappointment at the current shape of the draft bill.

Dec 19, 2011

| Anuradha Raman
- 'Broad Consensus'

UK: humane dairy farming

Milk ’n Honey

Somewhere in England, the Quiet Beatle’s farm champions Ahimsa dairy

Dec 19, 2011

| Marianne Landzettel
south asia: myanmar

The Burma Road

Myanmar’s clever route to integration, and India’s possible role in it

Dec 19, 2011

| Pranay Sharma

opinion

But The Forbidden Apple Doesn’t Taste Like An Apple!

In worshipping at the altar of big retail, and its clinical efficiency, Britons bartered away vital nodes of their local economic and cultural life

Dec 19, 2011

| Peter Wilby
- On Empty Shelves

innovation: dehydrated food

Pulao Par Avion!

Mom’s kitchen to NRI plates: the in-between is cut-’n-dry

Dec 19, 2011

| Smita Mitra
karnataka: rituals

The Leftover God

A temple’s demeaning ‘leftovers’ ritual has all sides frothing

Dec 19, 2011

| Sugata Srinivasaraju

dev anand: character study

The Anti-Thesist

A career in the grey zone didn’t dim his genius. It coloured it.

Dec 19, 2011

| Namrata Joshi
tribute

Stardust Forever

A cast of icons leaves us to replay its golden hours in our lives

Dec 19, 2011

| Madhu Jain

10 Questions

Anita Ratnam

On Mad & Divine, a world dance conference, part of the Margazhi festival in Chennai

Dec 19, 2011

| Akhila Krishnamurthy
gossip

Bibliofile

Chiki Sarkar brings first sweeping change to Penguin, and the age of literary feuds seems to be here to stay

Dec 19, 2011

| Outlook
Last Page

New Jersey Diary

Dragging my suitcase, I asked a man in a blue uniform for directions to the suburban line into New Jersey. “Do I look like a f....n’ cop to you?” he yelled down his big basketball frame, spat and walked away. “Damn foreigner"...

Dec 19, 2011

| Gautam Bhatia (Architect)
mumbai restaurant

A Puree Of The Global Desi

If you come here, make sure you arrive with as open a mind as possible

Dec 19, 2011

| Anvar Alikhan
Review

Beatification Of The Erotic

This magisterial biography of a great artiste is unsparing on the forces and injustices that shaped Bharatanatyam

Dec 19, 2011

| Sadanand Menon
Review

Spare Parts

A stirring read, revealing how the poor and dead from India keep the red market bubbling in the developed world

Dec 19, 2011

| Debarshi Dasgupta
Review

Epic Sorority

A complex moral tale set against the backdrop of China’s Cultural Revolution

Dec 19, 2011

| Namita Gokhale
the Secret Diary of FBI director

Robert Mueller

'Let a thousand ‘moles’ and Aggarwalmarts bloom across the country. The future of the country will brighten with FBI in retail’.

Dec 19, 2011

| Ajith Pillai
Movie Review

The Dirty Picture

The film crumbles while negotiating the thin line between a woman’s inherent power and her vulnerability.

Dec 19, 2011

| Namrata Joshi
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