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THE MAGAZINE March 12, 2012

Cover Story

EXCLUSIVE interview

“The SC Side-Stepped The DoB Issue.... Had I Resigned, It’d Have Been A Self-Goa

Speaking out for the first time, the Army Chief clears the air on the fracas over his date of birth and many other issues

Mar 12, 2012

| Chander Suta Dogra
analysis

The Creeping Barrage

The military fumes. The MoD establishes a beachhead. And India loses.

Mar 12, 2012

| Chandra Suta Dogra

presidency: the longlist

Who Should Be Next President?

Political guy or corporate czar, actor or activist? Outlook weighs a few names

Mar 12, 2012

| Smruti Koppikar
rajasthan: mining

The Moving Earthquake

After Haryana ban, illegal mining shifts to Sikar’s hills

Mar 12, 2012

| Panini Anand
opinion

When It’s Hand And Dow

The Bhopal activist who was “snooped on” by Dow talks first-hand

Mar 12, 2012

| Satyu Sarangi
madhya pradesh: family planning

Planning, Execution

Women and impoverished, illiterate tribals fall prey to Madhya Pradesh’s overweening family planning zeal

Mar 12, 2012

| Anuradha Raman
- ‘Only We Have The Courage To Speak On This’
ngos: controversy

Thy Foreign, Lying Hand, Great Anarch

The PM’s suspicion of external influence in NGOs belie old fixities and current practices

Mar 12, 2012

| Lola Nayar Debarshi Dasgupta Pushpa Iyengar Pranay Sharma
- ‘Foreign’ Policy

pakistan: balochistan

Scorched Earth, Act II

Balochistan is a tinderbox of complex history, brutality and bad blood

Mar 12, 2012

| Mariana Baabar
- The Unheard Drone

opinion

Blooming Red Hangover

The Kingfisher bailout smacks of crony capitalism. What else is new?

Mar 12, 2012

| Debashis Basu

opinion

His Dark Blue Pencil

Justice Katju should stop treating the media like spoiled children or undertake ego trips to further his own, or the government’s, objectives

Mar 12, 2012

| S. Nihal Singh
eye on society: 24/7 creches

The Wee Willie Winkies

Weary working mom and a dusty baby? Look to all-night creches

Mar 12, 2012

| Smita Mitra
health: vitamins

Too Much Of A Good Thing

Doctors are waking up to the dangers of taking vitamin supplements in excess

Mar 12, 2012

| Amba Batra Bakshi
Mind your body

Make Your Appetite Count

Eat to nourish your being—don’t eat to distract yourself from boredom or depressing company.

Mar 12, 2012

| Rujuta Diwekar

hockey: a fresh turn

Weigh Our Pieces Of Eight

A reversion to older style put the shine back on Indian hockey. Still, it’s far from a revival.

Mar 12, 2012

| Rohit Mahajan
- ‘The European Style Wasn’t Working’

Review

Storm In An Old Tea Cup

She’s impetuous, honest, a gadfly. But for all her courage, Mamata’s change is painted in borrowed Red.

Mar 12, 2012

| Pratap Bhanu Mehta
Review

Bleeding Ink

All this book needed was to be treated like a book in its own right, out of the column straitjacket

Mar 12, 2012

| Annie Zaidi
Review

Winter Light

A startlingly accomplished first novel, a stunning debut that ventures bravely into terrain where seasoned writers fear to tread

Mar 12, 2012

| Manju Kak

Art & Entertainment

opinion

The Ice Dagger Was Sharp, And It Cut Deep

As a silent film gets its moment at the Oscars, how does our own take from the ’80s, Pushpak, hold up? As it happens, very well indeed.

Mar 12, 2012

| Naman Ramachandran
kerala: movies

Korak Rides In

A star son’s debut, a Mollywood thriller

Mar 12, 2012

| Minu Ittyipe

Last Page

Oxford Diary

One thing one misses in England nowadays is the wit that seemed a national characteristic up to the ’90s...

Mar 12, 2012

| Anvar Alikhan

Glitterati

The page 3 people, the chatterati and those in the news for being in the news

Letters

Published feedback from our readers: rants, raves, bouquets, brickbats

Regulars

10 Questions

Karan Singh

The politician and ICCR president debuted on stage as a singer recently

Mar 12, 2012

| Arpita Basu
gossip

Bibliofile

Bloomsbury, publisher of the Harry Potter books, is the latest international publisher to set up shop in India...

Mar 12, 2012

| Outlook
the Secret Diary of

Chhote Nawab Saif Ali Khan

Some pages of this secret diary are torn. That is only natural because I am still in a state of rage...

Mar 12, 2012

| V. Gangadhar
Movie Review

The Iron Lady

Mostly a surface run, not so much about Thatcherism as on the ghosts of her past.

Mar 12, 2012

| Namrata Joshi
Movie Review

Kaadhalil Sodhapuvadhu Yeppadi (Tamil and Telugu)

The language and humour are real; the milieu predictable. But in that couch of familiarity and predictability lies the film’s spirit

Mar 12, 2012

| Akhila Krishnamurthy

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