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Who are the young and restless voting for?
By Kunal Majumder


Etawah hopes for a double celebration this Holi
By Virendra Nath Bhatt

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
UTTAR PRADESH
Union Coal Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal stirs hornet’s nest
Peaceful 5th phase, 49 seats in 13 districts go to poll; Lalitpur sets record with 72 percent voter turnout

ILLEGAL FISHING
Tracking the Great Indian Tuna Robbery
Foreign vessels are illegally entering Indian seas to fish right under the govt’s nose. Rohini Mohan reports


OPINION
Why wings are not good
enough to fly?

Sushil Bhan on how increasing revenue hours per aircraft could help the airline industry

AVIATION
Is Vijay Mallya asking a European airline to help Kingfisher fly?
Best time to enter the sector, but will they repay Rs 7,000 crore KFA owes to a consortium of 18 banks?

JUDICIARY
Crackdown an assault on democratic rights: SC
Delhi Police and Ramdev ordered to pay compensation to victims, court says cops should have exercised patience

2G SCAM
Ruias, Khaitans exempted from personal appearances in court
Judge OP Saini allows exemption for the second time as CBI decides to not oppose the application

ANDHRA PRADESH
Governor rejects four names suggested for the posts of SICs
The rejected people have political connections and leanings, which is a criterion for rejection under the RTI Act

PRESS COUNCIL
Katju threatens to recommend "dismissal" of Maharashtra govt
Miffed at the state CM's failures to reply to his letters, Katju writes to him asking did he not ‘deserve the courtesy of a reply?’

FISHERMEN DEATHS
Italy wants United Nations to intervene
Will also engage a senior lawyer to appear on behalf of the two marine guards in police custody

GUJARAT RIOTS
Colour of Communalism: The pogrom of democracy
Ram Puniyani examines why the 2002 Gujarat riots were the worst violence
since 1961

SECC
SECC census: The curious case of the vanishing poor
The ongoing SECC census may leave millions of poor Indians outside the purview of the BPL category

RIOT
Nothing has changed even after a decade
Vidyut Kale examines why people focus more on the blame game than human suffering

SOCIETY
What will the Lefty intellectuals wear now?
Does Fabindia’s succumbing to capitalist overtures of Loius Vuitton reflect a changing order, asks Dilip Cherian

BOOKS
“Nothing was fixed in Bala’s style”
A biography on the iconic Bharatanatyam exponent Balasaraswati bares as much about her personal as her public life

COMIC CON INDIA
Meet Robert Crumb, a legend of the comic book universe
His imagery was a cornerstone of the 60’s graphics’ art movement, over six decades later, controversy remains his signature

DOCUMENTARY
The skin Dr Mohammed Jawad lives in
Saving Face, a new documentary film has just become Pakistan's first Oscar nomination

SLY CULTURE
With a spring in your step and with a love for letters
What happens when one writes through photography, an actor sheds etiquette & plastic dolls dance


 
  KASHMIR
Why is the hardliner knocking on moderate doors?
By Baba Umar

ASSAM
Did they die of hunger? The question haunts Barak Valley
By Ratnadip Choudhury

RTI HURDLES
Has curiosity killed the RTI cat?
The obstacles faced by RTI activists illustrate how a good law is being subverted by opaque institutions, says Janani Ganesan

JAMMU & KASHMIR
Why cases of rights abuse by army are stuck
The defence ministry doesn’t trust J&K Police on probes into rights violations by army personnel, reports Riyaz Wani

WHAT ON EARTH
The Forest Cover-Up
Preening over plantations and weeds, green statistics conceal the alarming loss of natural, old-growth forests

UP CAMPAIGN TRAIL
In Robert Vadra’s Wake
Kunal Majumder tracks the uneasy reaction of the Congress party to the Gandhi son-in-law’s muscle-flexing in Rae Bareli

ODISHA
Steel plant bludgeons tribals in a brutal barter
Broken promises and the management’s duplicity seem to have triggered the violence that erupted at the JSPL plant in Angul. Bibhuti Pati reports

KARNATAKA
Monsanto let off the hook on Bt Brinjal
Despite violating the Biodiversity Act, American seed major escapes legal action, reports Imran Khan

IN COLD BLOOD
‘We’ve given Sahara enough time to resolve issues’
BCCI Joint Secretary Anurag Thakur tells Prakhar Jain that the board will find a new sponsor for Team India if Sahara pulls out

PROS&CONS
Maldivian malady catches India napping
The crisis in Maldives had been brewing for the past two months but our Embassy in Male and policy makers failed to read the signs correctly


  SURFING
The Surf is Up
Our sprawling coastline has begun to attract surfers from across the world. But can it turn into a surfing hotspot? The first India Surf Festival had some clues. Story and images by Garima Jain

INTERVIEW
‘When I look at excel sheets, a thumri plays in my head’
Vikram Sampath’ enthusiasm pipes up as he tells Janani Ganesan how his research for the book, Voice of the Veena: S Balachander, inspired him to set up a sound archive in India

IDEAS 2011
Don’t get mad, get even
Is the anti-terror project a failed assignment? Shehrbano Taseer and Hasan Elahi share their views with Shoma Chaudhury

FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
‘Our policy is to ban first and hear later’
A Senior Supreme Court advocate, Rajeev Dhavan tells Shonali Ghosal why the liberal space can be easily throttled in India

BOOKS
What about the rest of us?
Palash Krishna Mehrotra is too focussed on one social clique to notice all the other young Indians outside it, says Samhita Arni

FILM REVIEW - EK MAIN AUR EKK TU
(500) Days of Imran
By Mona J

PSYCHOLOGIES
‘My work and I have changed after facing sudden deaths’ - Dhruvi Acharya 40, Artist
By Aradhna Wal

PERSONAL HISTORIES: MATH-MAGIC
‘I was plunging into the world of compasses and vectors’
By Rahul Khandelwal

     



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