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Ambedkar’s Desiderata

In six decades of ‘progress’ India hasn’t realised our founders’ vision of social democracy

Feb 01, 2010

| Ramachandra Guha
Opinion

A Big Bang Approach

Negotiation and accommodation, that’s our strength

Feb 01, 2010

| Nandan Nilekani
The Ideals

Emotion To Bald Economics

The zeal with which this nation was forged 60 years ago has given way to an obsession with attaining superpowerdom

Feb 01, 2010

| Sugata Srinivasaraju
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Bhim, Eklavya

From Ambavadekar to Dr Ambedkar, the shaping of India’s Dalit icon

Feb 01, 2010

| Smruti Koppikar
photo feature

Wide Angle To Memory

A catalogue of markers of the changes we have seen in sixty years....

Feb 01, 2010

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Opinion

A Bet On The People

Universal suffrage, our path to social change

Feb 01, 2010

| Pratap Bhanu Mehta
advocacy

The Fruits Of Tenacity

Activists realise it takes a fight to translate democracy from thin paper to thick action

Feb 01, 2010

| Anuradha Raman Saikat Datta
missing indians

Being Remo

For the Bonda tribals of Orissa, a constant struggle is on—with state and custom

Feb 01, 2010

| Debarshi Dasgupta
- The Primitive Bogey
bungles

On Your Marks

The blotches on the pages of our history

Feb 01, 2010

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Notes From The Soil

Patriotic songs and lyrics have reflected the truth of the times

Feb 01, 2010

| Namrata Joshi
Opinion

The Fork-Tongued

Bilinguialism, a legacy that defines the nation today

Feb 01, 2010

| Mrinal Pande
Opinion

Message In A Bottle

Dry Gujarat says ‘cheers’ to our national hypocrisy

Feb 01, 2010

| Santosh Desai
R-Day parade

Papier Marches

Is the Republic Day parade conceptually too frozen in the ’50s?

Feb 01, 2010

| Shruti Ravindran

appraisal

Of Light And Shadow

The man who wouldn’t go away has gone. He leaves behind a state aiming to survive its post-mortems.

Feb 01, 2010

| Dola Mitra
opinion

The Socialist As Selfist

A short history of the undoing of an important political strand

Feb 01, 2010

| Neelabh Mishra

opinion

Yellow Star Treatment

The IPL’s disregard for Pakistani cricketers is hurtful and unwise

Feb 01, 2010

| Javed Miandad

10 Questions

Anne Enright

The Booker-winning Irish novelist on her first visit to India for the Jaipur litfest

Feb 01, 2010

| Sheela Reddy

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Bibliofile

Guess this IWE author whose royalty cheque for 2009 is Rs 45 lakh, and his earnings from his two novels Rs 3 crores

Feb 01, 2010

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Delhi Diary

Mr Basu’s contributions to the CPI(M) are no doubt substantial, but surely he wasn’t the man news channels and editorials mourned.

Feb 01, 2010

| Vinod Mehta
review

The Net

There has never been a better treatise on sport, ambition, achievement and physical pain.

Feb 01, 2010

| Binoo K. John
review

Man At The Art Market

Colonial India’s pre-eminent image-maker led a chequered life and experimented ceaselessly

Feb 01, 2010

| Sunil Sethi
review

Tusker Country

Should be on the shelf besides such classics as J.H. Williams’s Elephant Bill and P.D. Stracey’s Elephant Gold.

Feb 01, 2010

| Ruskin Bond
The Secret Diary Of

Amar Singh

For starters, sitting in Dubai I managed to complete the script of ‘The Devil Wears Jaya Prada’...

Feb 01, 2010

| Ajith Pillai
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Chance Pe Dance

Definitely most unwarranted -- the sense of humour reaches a new low.

Feb 01, 2010

| Namrata Joshi
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