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COVER STORY
Why the AG's role demands closer scrutiny
By ASHISH KHETAN
  ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS
If we don't win in UP it will be our fault: Uma Bharti
By BRIJESH PANDEY
 
[Opinion] Meet UP: The New Bihar | By Ashok Malik

Death and deliverance in Bundelkhand | By Revati Laul

SERIES At The Heart Of It with Shoma Chaudhury Tehelka presents The Music Project In Conversation with Writers Cinema & Me: The Movies That Made Me
2G SCAM
SC order adds fuel to BJP’s fire on Chidambaram
CBI court to decide on demand for investigation of Home Minister’s alleged role in case; 122 2G licences cancelled

TAMIL NADU
Jaya ex-aide Sasikala’s brother arrested
VK Diwakaran has been remanded to judicial custody for 15 days on charges of property demolition


SLY CULTURE
The diet of bans and the might
of pens

Glimpses of Mumbai’s many faces, Vidya’s rising standards and the lure of the Southern kitsch


SOCIAL MEDIA
‘Google cannot use India’s IT laws as shield’
Lawyer argues Google not just a search engine, is generating business using content from other sites

ELECTRICITY
Activists demand CBI probe into power project
Narmada Bachao Andolan says purchase of power from Maheshwar Hydro-Electric project would cost Rs 10 per unit

UP ELECTIONS
Maya plays Dalit card, reminds voters of EC ‘humiliation’
CM accuses Congress of using CBI to settle political scores despite being ‘neck-deep’ in corruption

OPINION
My name is Nobody, not Anna Hazare
MPS Reen assesses why an old man has become a symbol of our flaws and strengths

ELECTIONS
India: More of a psephocracy than a democracy?
CP Bhambhri examines the dark side of elections in India as seen in the ongoing
polls

CHILD ABUSE
Ventilator taken off, a glimmer of hope for Falak
Despite responding well to medicines,
the two-year-old may require more surgeries

CASH CRUNCH
Baba Amte’s ashram faces financial squeeze
Institution that was set up to treat leprosy patients appeals for a grant of Rs 55 crore in the land of many billionaires

FILM REVIEW
A thrilling weekend is awaiting you at the theatre
Hollywood flicks rule the roost, take your pick between a thriller, a drama and a romance

ART
‘We are, in some sense, duplicate artists’
Artist Manjunath Kamath bemoans the lack of Indianness in contemporary
Indian art

 
  ARCHAIC LAWS
We are on the highway to hell
The penalties against drunken driving are laughable and that’s why tipplers are running amok on our roads, reports Avalok Langer

ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS
POLL VAULT 2012
Populist schemes blithely promised by both the Congress and the SAD will take Punjab deeper into debt, reports Sai Manish

RTI ACT
In Chhattisgarh Assembly, RTI Applicants Face New Hurdles
By Prakhar Jain

ST STATUS
Assam’s Latest Tribal Headache
Upper Assam faces a new rebellion by a small ethnic group seeking a special status, reports Ratnadip Choudhury

LAX LAWS
Lack of Conviction. That’s What’s Skewing the Sex Ratio
Out of a thousand-odd cases filed against illegal gender tests, only 83 have found doctors guilty. Shonali Ghosal reports

PROS&CONS
Bending the gender on rape cases
The plan to widen the scope of sexual offences to include male victims is a good move, but clubbing it with rape is not

IN COLD BLOOD
‘People will act if the state fails to stop conversion’
Kashmir’s Grand Mufti Bashir-ud-Din tells Riyaz Wani that missionary activities have to be halted to ensure communal harmony


  CINEMA
Going where the silences speak out
How does one live in the eye of fear? As Ashvin Kumar takes us to the streets of Kashmir again, Nishita Jha meets the man intent on bypassing the censor board

JLF 2012
Rushdie in a Land of Shame
Are we now a country that cannot bear the disembodied video presence of a writer whose book we do not approve of? Nisha Susan follows the Rushdie-shaped troubles at Diggi

EXCLUSIVE
‘Restrictions on Rushdie are not connected with UP elections’
Revati Laul asks Salman Khurshid on the campaign trail, as his wife Louise is contesting the election from UP’s Farrukhabad, whether the whole controversy is related to the UP polls as is widely believed.

JLF 2012
An Africa That Talks Back
Ben Okri, Taiye Selasi and Teju Cole spoke to TEHELKA about why this is both a very frightening and exhilarating time to be a young African writer — as Selasi says, one way or the other, they must talk back.

IDEAS 2011
The green Milestone
Environmentalist Bjørn Lomborg debunks some myths about climate change during a conversation with Shoma Chaudhury

IKFW
Little miss catwalk
Are you a well-travelled, discerning 10-year-old with a wardrobe that bores you? Worry no more. Sunaina Kumar goes to the first India Kids Fashion Week

FOOD
Nobody Diets in the Headbanger’s Kitchen
Aradhna Wal enters the lair of a YouTube microtrend and discovers raw, heavy flavours

FILM REVIEW - J EDGAR
Federal Bureau of Love
By Mona J

PSYCHOLOGIES
‘Technology has changed the Indian idea of sex’ - Chintan Upadhyay, 39, Artist
By Aradhna Wal

PERSONAL HISTORIES: GAY LOVE
‘I fell in love with a girl just like you would with your boyfriend’
By Anonymous

     



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