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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COVER STORY
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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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<i>Pierre, je suis ici</i>... India’s rising star has meant new respect for B’wood
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The year as it was, within the lines, out of the box
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The pretty, docile creature is passe. Princessing is good, hard work these days.
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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 West’s top playboy thrives in his own world
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Do Gandhi’s and Mandela’s lives tell us more than Stalin’s and Hitler’s?
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It’s time to banish the belief that N-power is clean, green and safe
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It would be grave folly to recoil from the N-option, our safest
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OTHER STORIES
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In an age in which multimedia drives change, the camera can still frame drama
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The travails and travels of upperclassmen presidents
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Expectations for democratic change, in the Arab world and elsewhere, run high. But there is no guarantee.
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Will Radical Islam hijack what has been a democratic Spring?
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The US and Europe have obfuscated market dealings, that’s why their economies are still faltering while emerging economies gain
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Democracy’s inviolable tenets are useless in articulating our unfreedom
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The West is down, the East is uncertain. Still, we have spring.
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Shared history, not scare-mongering, should ground India-China relations
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All physical, social and political coordinates assail capitalism in India
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Democracy just got a bit more democratised. Thank the economy.
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It’s a matter of time before the irate Indian takes its leaders to task
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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.