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A Shiver Runs Through It

The innocent tribal stands hapless in the crossfire between the State and the Maoists, losing life and livelihood in a war without end

Feb 22, 2010

| Smita Gupta
bastar

The Greater Common God Also

Hindu right-wing groups find a ‘cause’ in the war’s orphans

Feb 22, 2010

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interview

“They Can Only Kill Innocents, Not Us”

The interview with Maoist insurgents is a tad unreal, when it does materialise in the middle of the dense jungles of Dandakaranya...

Feb 22, 2010

| Outlook
opinion

A Khaki Shudra To Our New Brahmins

How is it that the Maoists accumulate so much sympathy while the police are damned by the uniform they wear?

Feb 22, 2010

| Vishwa Ranjan

maharashtra: politics

Thank God It’s Friday?

There’s more at stake in Maharashtra than a Rs 90-crore SRK film

Feb 22, 2010

| Smruti Koppikar
- The Good Muslim In Eternal Return

karnataka: Dalits

Push Comes To...

A Neeli Sene to take on the swayamsevaks

Feb 22, 2010

| Sugata Srinivasaraju
politics: tamil nadu

Sign Language

Azhagiri semaphores his ‘CM’ intentions

Feb 22, 2010

| Pushpa Iyengar
governance: rti

Mum’s The Word

The Centre plans to manacle the RTI Act

Feb 22, 2010

| Saikat Datta
controversy: BT brinjal

Bacteria Curry

The volte-face on Bt brinjal deepens the controversy over GM foods

Feb 22, 2010

| Lola Nayar
- ‘GM Isn’t Only Route To Food Security’

sri lanka: politics

A Fury Loose In Serendip

An implacable Rajapaksa detains and sacks in a velvet-fisted purge

Feb 22, 2010

| Satarupa Bhattacharjya
pakistan: let

Dialogue Or Jehad 2.0?

Indo-Pak talks threaten to resume, and then they let the LeT chief off the leash. What’s up?

Feb 22, 2010

| Amir Mir

interview

'Vedanta Is Linked To Serious Rights Abuses’

On persuading the Church of England to divest its stake in the UK-based Vedanta Resources

Feb 22, 2010

| Anuradha Raman
opinion

Gently On The Throttle

Toyota’s recalls have hit its brand value, but give them a...brake

Feb 22, 2010

| Ben Oliver

punjab: Dog Racing

Dogspeed By The Beas

Amidst the wheat fields, the bound and pace and stride of greyhounds feeds a racing craze

Feb 22, 2010

| Chander Suta Dogra
haryana

Shining On Little

Microcredit and SHGS change women’s lives

Feb 22, 2010

| Amba Batra Bakshi

tamil nadu: carrom

Striker’s Code

The new Striker is old news in Chennai’s slums, its carrom world champs will vouch

Feb 22, 2010

| Pushpa Iyengar

music: composer

The Karma Symphony In Judea

With help from the Bhagavad Gita, an Indian composer tears down cross-cultural barriers

Feb 22, 2010

| Seema Sirohi

10 questions

Shraddha Kapoor

Bollywood villain Shakti Kapoor’s daughter makes her debut in Teen Patti

Feb 22, 2010

| Lata Khubchandani
gossip

Bibliofile

Remember the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize ceremony of 2002. The one when His Salmanness was not Sirji yet nor was Coetzee Nobel...?

Feb 22, 2010

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Last Page

Delhi Diary

Whether it is Jaya Bachchan or Karan Johar or Sharad Pawar prostrating before Matoshree, the homage should be roundly condemned.

Feb 22, 2010

| Vinod Mehta
bangalore Restaurant

Toast To Toast

Decent food, not superlative, and not inexpensive. And their coffee (Rs 25) is cheaper (and possibly better) than the other chains’

Feb 22, 2010

| Sumana Mukherjee
review

Life As A Gig

Tells the heart-warming tale of the triumph of the human spirit with a gentle, self-deprecating wit.

Feb 22, 2010

| Ajith Pillai
review

Dork Tales

Nothing else skewers corporate India’s assorted sillinesses so accurately. Or so funnily.

Feb 22, 2010

| Hari Menon
review

Nehru, Sinosceptic

His foreign policy and strategic motives laid bare, Nehru surprisingly emerges as an out-and-out realist

Feb 22, 2010

| Pranay Sharma
The Secret Diary Of

Bal Thackeray

I’ve so far maintained my silence, but I now feel I must record what actually transpired for posterity...

Feb 22, 2010

| Ajith Pillai
showtime

Striker

A daring, disturbing even if a trifle convoluted and meandering exploration of the ugly urban underbelly through three decades—’70s, ’80s, leading up to December 1992.

Feb 22, 2010

| Namrata Joshi
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