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THE MAGAZINE December 10, 2012

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Socialism, Cash Down

Its ploy of Aadhar-hinged cash transfer may have won the Congress political points, but will it really be a game-changer?

Dec 10, 2012

| Arindam Mukherjee Uttam Sengupta
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Oil That Never Caught Fire

A scheme to credit kerosene subsidies to beneficiaries’ accounts flopped real big in Rajasthan

Dec 10, 2012

| Pragya Singh
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Freshly Minted Cheer

Whatever the cons, cash transfers will help the UPA stand up again

Dec 10, 2012

| Saba Naqvi
cooking gas

Cylinder Blast

The cap on subsidised LPG has the UPA regime worried

Dec 10, 2012

| Lola Nayar

law: Delhi blasts

Unfreedom Chronicle

Two Kashmiri men lurch from case to case

Dec 10, 2012

| Chandrani Banerjee
ayodhya: 20 years after

Two Domes Down

A Babri reporter on the cycle of history and how Muslims can break it

Dec 10, 2012

| S.N.M. Abdi
- Mecca In A Mandir
Policing: iB

Smokin’ Abe

New IB chief is said to be good at psy-ops

Dec 10, 2012

| Toral Varia Deshpande
gujarat: elections

NaMo, NaMo, NaMo

He’s here, there, everywhere. Modi is omnipresent, victory is certain. Can anything stop the juggernaut?

Dec 10, 2012

| Prarthna Gahilote

interview

‘I Am Very Hopeful About The Left Even In The US’

The former Bengal finance minister on why he still sees a glimmer of light from the most unexpected corner of the world

Dec 10, 2012

| Dola Mitra

opinion

Fundamentally Wrong

Guha is wrong, ‘Hindu fundamentalist’ is an oxymoron

Dec 10, 2012

| Bhaichand Patel
wedding albums: candid photography

Cheese? Don’t Say It

Posing is passe. Candid’s where wedding photos are going.

Dec 10, 2012

| Julie Gonnet
environment: zoos

The Life Sentence

India’s zoos are in a shambles, conservation needs new ideas

Dec 10, 2012

| Cara Tejpal

Review

Water-Fairies From A Train Window

Real and evanescent, the Northeast in Boats on Land is a melange of past influences and present concerns; The Gurkha’s Daughter is a delicate exploration of the Nepali diaspora

Dec 10, 2012

| Sudeep Sen
Review

Wronged Man

D'Souza tries to understand why a man trained in medicine would spend his life with people who have fallen off the collective conscience of a nation.

Dec 10, 2012

| Anuradha Raman

Art & Entertainment

films: bold bengal

What Bimala Does Now

Bengali films explore sexuality in all its purple hues, played by uninhibited actors

Dec 10, 2012

| Dola Mitra
cinema: Locations

When Place Is An Actor

As filmmakers recreate Pakistan in India, I&B ministry tries to make shoots easier

Dec 10, 2012

| Anuradha Raman

diary

Jerusalem Diary

Where you can pick up hands of Fatima, stars of David and crucifixes for the same secular price of 2 shekels each.

Dec 10, 2012

| Anuja Chauhan

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

Gargi Sen

Docu filmmaker Gargi Sen, on producing Gora, a tele-series based on Tagore’s novel

Dec 10, 2012

| Neha Bhatt
Gossip

Bibliofile

As Random House and Harper battle over Yuvi, a gawky Vikram Seth stars in the Absolut vodka ad.

Dec 10, 2012

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Mumbai Restaurant

Chants Fried And Filled

Warning: Order moderately, else you will end up as stuffed as the Paneer Corn Capsicum Paratha.

Dec 10, 2012

| Shabnam Minwalla
the Secret Diary of

Sameera Reddy

The only sound that wakes me up from my sleepwalking is the popping flashes of the paparazzi.

Dec 10, 2012

| V. Gangadhar
Movie Review

Life Of Pi

Comes across too pat and doesn’t cut deep enough. For many feeling abandoned, it may prove cathartic.

Dec 10, 2012

| Namrata Joshi

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