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THE MAGAZINE May 07, 2012

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Economy

The North Face

The northern states are pulling away as growth stutters in the once arrogant south. In this exclusive extract, the author posits the fresh challenges facing India in its bid to be a breakout nation.

May 07, 2012

| Ruchir Sharma
opinion

Beyond Vindhya Major

The South has no cause to rise again. Its sun has yet to set.

May 07, 2012

| Srivatsa Krishna

uttar pradesh: muslims

Maulana Mark-II

Quota is tough. False terror arrests prove an easier entry point.

May 07, 2012

| Sharat Pradhan
maoists: chhattisgarh

No Red Beacons

Alex Paul Menon, energetic and idealistic, was a soft target

May 07, 2012

| Madhavi Tata
- The In-Betweeners
public life: sex CDs

The Graphic Portfolios

Public lives, private acts. Where do we draw the line?

May 07, 2012

| Prarthna Gahilote
opinion

Smoking Guns: Eating Out Of A Foreign Hand

The smell of cordite over Bofors has subsided, but one question nags still: why did Bofors pay Q? Thereby hangs a shameful tale of missed chances.

May 07, 2012

| Chitra Subramaniam Duella

opinion

Some Myths Work

UP and Sindh, joined by history, divided by secular democracy

May 07, 2012

| Tahir Mehdi
diplomacy: pakistan

A Midstream Game For You And Me

Besieged in Af-Pak and festering with sores, Pakistan sees the virtues of peace with India

May 07, 2012

| Pranay Sharma
- Intelligent Designs
- Pakreading 101

drugs: patients’ rights

View From A Pillbox

Patients of clinical trials have their rights truncated

May 07, 2012

| Debarshi Dasgupta
transport: highways

Route 666

More highways at what cost? How the PPP model is at odds with the land.

May 07, 2012

| Lola Nayar

kitchen kitsch: baking

Treacle Down Effect

Ovenbirds are churning out cakes by the baker’s dozen

May 07, 2012

| Neha Bhatt
opinion

Dirty Three-Letter Words

Don’t brand the EWS children. Instead, integrate them better.

May 07, 2012

| Sonia Singh
education: moral policing

Social Engineering?

Students raise a storm over rules teachers say are for their own good

May 07, 2012

| Pushpa Iyengar
medical tourism: ivf babies

Long Journeys To Parenthood

Couples from countries across the world—chiefly Islamic countries and Africa—are seeking babies in Indian clinics

May 07, 2012

| Smita Mitra
Mind your body

Calculus Of The Incalculable

Want to ‘burn’ 500 calories in the hope of losing weight? Count your efforts, not your calories

May 07, 2012

| Rujuta Diwekar

Review

Ballad Of A Broken String

A post-Partition torpor marks time for the sole occupants of a kotha and an akhara. A work of crisp magic.

May 07, 2012

| Sunil Sethi
Review

Blitzkrieg At The Net

Possibly the one fault with this book, as with most Indian sports biographies: is this man perfect?

May 07, 2012

| Rohit Mahajan

Last Page

London Diary

“Why am I not in this book?” Howard Jacobson, winner of the Man Booker Prize, wanted to know...

May 07, 2012

| Suresh Menon

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

Tishani Doshi

The author and poet on Everything Begins Elsewhere, her new collection of poems

May 07, 2012

| Akhila Krishnamurthy
gossip

Bibliofile

Flipkart and other online bookshops seem to have hit the old-fashioned shelves-and-ladder bookshops...

May 07, 2012

| Outlook
the Secret Diary of

Derek O’Brien

I will never have tea with a CPI(M) worker. I will never attend CPI(M) weddings. I won’t be seen in the company of CPI(M) supporters...

May 07, 2012

| V. Gangadhar
Movie Review

Vicky Donor

It’s been so long since a movie elicited laughs without cringes. It is unapologetic, unadulterated fun

May 07, 2012

| Namrata Joshi

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