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the next president

The August Question

The First Citizen race hots up. Parties get their pawns in place.

Apr 30, 2012

| Saba Naqvi
the next president

The Giani’s Riot Act

Zail Singh would have gladly been Indira’s ‘sweeper’. The rules changed for Rajiv.

Apr 30, 2012

| Uttam Sengupta
pratibha patil

The Tai Of Fizzle

Pratibha Patil leaves no lasting impression on her office

Apr 30, 2012

| Smruti Koppikar Prarthna Gahilote
pratibha patil

Where Mum Is the Word

In Amravati, Rajendra Shekhawat’s writ runs on the strength of his mother’s exalted position

Apr 30, 2012

| Smruti Koppikar

opinion

Fortress Of Unreason

Mamata once believed in democracy. Time she rediscovered it.

Apr 30, 2012

| Kabir Suman
opinion

The Ghost’s In The Details, Ma’am

Arundhati has got it all wrong—the facts speak out against her romantic notions of the tribals’ fight

Apr 30, 2012

| Aakar Patel
EXCLUSIVE investigation: Tatra kolos deal

Drops Of Jupiter

Tatra spares is just one of Rishi’s ‘businesses’

Apr 30, 2012

| Chander Suta Dogra

interview

‘This Is A Political Tsunami Against The Corrupt’

The Tehreek-e-Insaf leader on relations with the army, Indo-Pak relations, ties with the USA, terrorism from Pakistan, 26/11, Hafiz Saeed and much more

Apr 30, 2012

| Pranay Sharma
opinion

Opium And Taliban Are Forever!

A few eternal verities pock-mark all the flux in Afghanistan. Policy has to navigate around them.

Apr 30, 2012

| Vivek Katju

economy: statistics

Random Numbers

Our counters get the industrial index wrong

Apr 30, 2012

| Pragya Singh
gold loans: rbi safeguards

The Dangling Carats

They fill the void between bank and shark, but can NBFCs survive a contrarian RBI?

Apr 30, 2012

| Minu Ittyipe

opinion

A Cowed-Down Nation

Why kill over a people’s dietary preference for beef?

Apr 30, 2012

| Meena Kandasamy
health: food

Poisoned Plate

There's more to those bottles and jars filling our larders and refrigerators than what their labels say

Apr 30, 2012

| Outlook
right to education: teething troubles

The Wide Gulf Of Dissimilitude

The Supreme Court judgement notwithstanding, issues persist on the EWS reservation

Apr 30, 2012

| Neha Bhatt
- Classic Dodge

profile: small-town sumo

The Path Of The Rikishi

She’s an oddity. Her craft, a mystery. What is it about her that feels ‘real’ somehow?

Apr 30, 2012

| Advaita Kala

books

Room For Words

His working day—his surroundings, his routine, the conditions that allow him to write

Apr 30, 2012

| Amit Chaudhuri

10 Questions

Gautam Chadha

The India representative of Royal Caribbean Cruises on luxury liners and Indian vacationers

Apr 30, 2012

| Arpita Basu
gossip

Bibliofile

The next big book to make news? Kuldip Nayar’s memoirs. Or A a biography of liquor baron and aviation pauper, Vijay Mallya?

Apr 30, 2012

| Outlook
Last Page

Delhi Diary

When mischief-makers, coups and middlemen are all the buzz, let me take you back to a time when I was also misled

Apr 30, 2012

| Vinod Mehta
mumbai restaurant

Lip-Smacking Legacy

Not as fancy as some of Mumbai’s other Chinese joints, but it’s a place that many serious foodies swear by.

Apr 30, 2012

| Anvar Alikhan
Review

Flighty Wings

A storyteller with keen imagination and startling turns of phrase, a nuanced grasp of human bondage and knifelike measure of love

Apr 30, 2012

| Shalini Mukerji
Review

Mixed Grain

A gentle insight into village life, interspersed with ragi recipes

Apr 30, 2012

| Nandita Iyer
Review

Life And Its Suburbs

In Chughtai’s memoirs words come pell-mell, out of her consciousness. Her demanding prose is translated well.

Apr 30, 2012

| Sohail Hashmi
the Secret Diary of

Teesta Setalvad

I outshouted, outscreamed and temporarily silenced Rajdeep Sardesai on the CNN-IBN channel...

Apr 30, 2012

| V. Gangadhar
Movie Review

Racha

Like a spicy mirchi bajji. It sticks to the time-tested Telugu formula of a mass entertainer

Apr 30, 2012

| Madhavi Tata
Movie Review

Bittoo Boss

Interesting social observations don’t necessarily a good film make

Apr 30, 2012

| Namrata Joshi
Glitterati

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