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THE MAGAZINE SPECIAL ISSUE August 24, 2015

Independence Day Special

history: debate

Tell It To The Dreaming Spires

Reparations for the Raj? Debts, material or moral, do not devolve so far down the generations.

Aug 24, 2015

| John Keay
history: the revolt of ballia, 1942

Seven Days Of Swaraj

Few know of the defiant 1942 Republic of Ballia, ground down brutally

Aug 24, 2015

| Shyam Bhatia
secular stocktaking

A State Under The Swastika

A demand for restoring the ‘Hindu state’ in Nepal enthuses and concerns Indians of various stripes

Aug 24, 2015

| Pranay Sharma
- This Rashtra Is A Republic
womancipators

Matersfamilias

A rock-solid sorority that holds the flock together. But their fight is not only of gender. It’s a universal community they serve.

Aug 24, 2015

| Saba Naqvi
talking to arundhati

‘I Don’t Believe There Are Only Two Genders. I See Gender As A Spectrum And I’m

Arundhati Roy on what shaped her, what moves her, and what gets her to start writing.

Aug 24, 2015

| Saba Naqvi
graphic details

Shadow Selves?

Women in India lag behind men in most developmental indices. In global rankings, we are rank back-benchers.

Aug 24, 2015

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Freedom song

Under A Bluer Sky

For 14,000 people cast adrift in 51 Bangladeshi enclaves in India, July 31 heralded a richer dawn

Aug 24, 2015

| Sandipan Chatterjee
interview

‘The Sex Strike Idea Was Born Out Of Sheer Desperation’

Nobel laureate Leymah Roberta Gbowee talks about the peace movement she led in Liberia and the unique 'sex strike' tactic.

Aug 24, 2015

| Pranay Sharma
the start-uppers

She’s Got Company

It’s a nascent field, and women are there at the starting line-up

Aug 24, 2015

| Ajay Sukumaran
lives

78 Revolutions

Akhtari, the Bai who became Begum

Aug 24, 2015

| Vidya Shah
cinema

Write It On The Screen

Juhi Chaturvedi, creator of Vicky Donor and Piku, deploys quirk to serious effect

Aug 24, 2015

| Namrata Joshi
girl’s own mind

Yes, Joke’s On Us

Alia’s gamine charm cradles talent and the nous of self-deprecation

Aug 24, 2015

| Prachi Pinglay-Plumber
essay

The Body Impolitic

She may be all body. But the raw female is to be invisible.

Aug 24, 2015

| Shobhaa Dé
opinion

All Earth, Half The Sky

Male and female roles have never been less strictly defined

Aug 24, 2015

| Dilip Bobb

Society

Recommendations

An exhibition of documentaries on the world’s most cherished art creators, the Kermit & Miss Piggy break-up and how to deal with back pain.

Aug 24, 2015

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