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THE MAGAZINE October 26, 2015

Cover Story

writers’ protest

The Howl Anthology

In the end, there is The Word.... It falls upon writers to float an ark of reason in the flood of intolerance in Modi-led India.

Oct 26, 2015

| Dilip Bobb
writers’ protest

The Pensmiths Inflict The Deepest Cuts

The writers’ stand is forcing the government to sit up and take notice, even if it acts nonchalant

Oct 26, 2015

| Bula Devi
writers’ protest

Bring Out The Brushes: Tug Of War Over A Tin Of Tar

Mumbai—under siege from the Shiv Sena’s puerile jingoism—is no longer a cosmopolitan safe haven. The BJP-Sena spat over recent events is only a new eyesore.

Oct 26, 2015

| Prarthna Gahilote Prachi Pinglay-Plumber
writers’ protest

When India’s Like A Closed Book

Uday Prakash, the first writer to forsake his Akademi award, rues the shrunk world he inhabits

Oct 26, 2015

| Pragya Singh
writers’ protest

‘My Throat, Unable To Speak, Will Die’

Across the world, down the ages, regimes of all colours have throttled dissenting voices

Oct 26, 2015

| Uttam Sengupta
interview

“I Think Writers Have Woken Up To The Serious Dangers To The Polity”

Kiran Nagarkar, one of the most significant writers of postcolonial India, on the current atmosphere and its political underpinnings.

Oct 26, 2015

| Prachi Pinglay-Plumber

interview

‘BJP Alone Will Win 120 Seats In Bihar’

BJP president Amit Shah who is possibly facing his toughest political test on the Bihar Elections.

Oct 26, 2015

| Kumar Pankaj
Opinion

A Bihar Mirror, For An Indian Reflection

Not caste, pro-development youth will be a factor in the Bihar vote

Oct 26, 2015

| N.K. Singh
I&B: condom ads

Give Us Our Pixel Screens

A prudish I&B plans to restrict condom ads on TV, but will it defeat the purpose?

Oct 26, 2015

| Mihir Srivastava
- Lose The Rubbers
essay

Needed, Minister With An MA, Not An MP

The institutional tripod of the State has become an unstable arrangement on two legs. Articles 75(5) and 164(4) must go.

Oct 26, 2015

| T.S.R. Subramanian
EXCLUSIVE: investigation sardar statue

Nationalism, Made In China

For the Prime Minister’s pet project, a record-breaking statue of Sardar Patel, his ‘Make in India’ initiative gets the short shrift

Oct 26, 2015

| Meetu Jain
- The Acrophobia Wars
controversy: adoptions

The Creche Has No Cots

Have the new adoption guidelines complicated matters further?

Oct 26, 2015

| Pavithra S. Rangan
- Blue-Bordered Saris—Mothers Who Give A House
- ‘Many Don’t Want Children From The N-E’

transactions: mobile wallets

The Em Space Widens

Mobile wallets are the new big players in the transactions push. And it’s clicking.

Oct 26, 2015

| Arindam Mukherjee
- The New Sixer Pack
oil prices

The Shrinking Slick

Why we don’t benefit from falling crude

Oct 26, 2015

| Pragya Singh

Recommendations

The Tata Mumbai Literature Festival, the Delhi International Arts Festival and boiling the perfect egg.

Oct 26, 2015

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Mind your body

Take The Food Mile Sprint

There is a multi-billion-dollar weight-loss industry preying on a simple fact—fear and confusion about what to eat.

Oct 26, 2015

| Rujuta Diwekar
fashion: indian weaves

Banarasi Bobbins

Indian weaves sashay on the ramp

Oct 26, 2015

| Stuti Agarwal

Reviews

Treadle Press, Good For All

Gita Press, Kalyan, and its editor Hanuman Prasad Poddar moulded Hindu politics and its pet concerns

Oct 26, 2015

| C. Marrewa Karwoski
Review

Some Lives Are Thrillers

Forsyth’s real life story is more thrilling than any yarn he ever spun for us!

Oct 26, 2015

| Sunil Mehra
book extract

Charred Wick In The Alcove

The iconic Smita Patil would have been 60 this week. A new biography traces her life, her untimely death and her glorious, meteoric career. Excerpts.

Oct 26, 2015

| Maithili Rao
extract

Nagpur Oranges Are The Only Fruit

Modi is caught in the pincer of a paradox—his RSS-fed hankering for a Hindu rashtra and his own modern technocratism. Where will his balancing act lead India?

Oct 26, 2015

| S. Nihal Singh

Last Page

Calcutta Diary

Just like the ‘Railway Mutton Curry’ of yore, it is difficult to get the authentic dhaba chicken any more.

Oct 26, 2015

| Sandip Ghose

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

Zarine Khan

The celebrity mom on her first book

Oct 26, 2015

| Stuti Agarwal
Gossip

Bibliofile

The first Jamaican to win the Booker prize and Rushdie's unafraid form.

Oct 26, 2015

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Column

Biztro

Business in bitesizes

Oct 26, 2015

| Lola Nayar Pavithra S. Rangan Arushi Bedi Ushinor Majumdar
The Insider

Deep Throat

A regular column on the essential buzz

Oct 26, 2015

| Madhavi Tata Pritam Sengupta Prarthna Gahilote Uttam Sengupta
Par Avion

A random sample from the British periodicals

Oct 26, 2015

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Rewind

Outlook in retrospect.

Oct 26, 2015

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Happenings

Seven Days

The states of the nation: news, headlines, gossip, rumours, things we learnt

Oct 26, 2015

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Movie Review

Jazbaa

Gupta has a stellar cast, but loses out on this advantage with his slipshod direction.

Oct 26, 2015

| Namrata Joshi

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