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POLITICS
Watch out for Kingmakers
By JAY MAZOOMDAAR
 
TEHELKA ARCHIVES
Two Men
And A Vote

By SHOMA CHAUDHURY
 
NUCLEAR SAFETY
In Denial of Fukushima
By MV RAMANA
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
Akhilesh takes oath as CM as cadres vandalise the venue
Euphoric SP workers create ruckus, new CM justifies their action as an expression of newly found freedom


MIDDLE EAST WEBLOG
'Jerusalem is key to solving the Israel-Palestine issue'
Says Mithiborwala, organiser of GMJ, who believes that Indians should be interested since it concerns our heritage

ECONOMIC SURVEY
Economy To Grow 7.6% This Fiscal
Despite the low growth of 6.9%, India remains one of the fastest growing economies

UTTAR PRADESH
Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav is at his generous best on day one
Cabinet approves implementation of the promises made in the Samajwadi Party’s election manifesto

EXCLUSIVE
Tainted judge transferred in Sankararaman case
After Ramaswami’s exit, the trial will be presided over by CS Murugan, who has been appointed the Principal Sessions Judge of the Puducherry court

OPINION
No country for rape victims
Rapes in the capital are increasingly becoming the only crime in which the victim is treated as the accused, says Nishita Jha

INDUSTRY
The truth about the mining industry is that it's at a crossroads
Much of what ails the sector lies outside the ambit of the budget's tax proposal, writes Sachin Menon

ENVIRONMENT
MOEF, please save us from your mountains of guidelines
Jaithirth Rao on how the environment ministry has reinstated the Licence-Permit Raj

CINEMA
IDFF hearing Impaired Cinema Day gets houseful response
The featured films provided an outlet to see a story through a visual language without text


BOOK REVIEW
The path to peace is paved with educational blocks
Peace is a major concern of our time, more so during the last few decades, writes Ram Puniyani


SLY CULTURE
Aamir Khan’s budget wish and the fabulous Indian brand
Of the Indian astronaut, business in Bollywood and a hilariously crafted
play


 
  UTTAR PRADESH
How They Made The NRHM Sick
With the Mayawati government now out of power, will the NRHM scam probe be taken to its logical conclusion, asks Abhishek Bhalla

NAGALAND
Is Shared Sovereignty the Future of Nagaland?
Globalisation and inter-dependence have pushed Naga rebels to reassess their goals. Is peace within reach, asks Avalok Langer

KARNATAKA
Farmers See True Colours of Dalit Minister
Minister of State for Railways KH Muniyappa joins the land-grab hall of shame in Karnataka. Imran Khan reports

KASHMIR
Howling Truths from the Valley
From once exhorting children to feed dogs to ward off nightmares, to making them the favourite hateobjects in Kashmir, Srinagar has come a long way

NUCLEAR SAFETY
‘If a tsunami strikes, chances of damage are extremely low in Koodankulam’
AS ANTI-NUCLEAR protests in Koodankulam and Jaitapur raise questions about the safety of having nuclear plants, Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) Chairman SS Bajaj tells G Vishnu that new safety measures have been put in force

IN COLD BLOOD
‘The TMC doesn’t have a magic wand to stop violence’
Trinamool MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar tells Kunal Majumder why shutting bars early will reduce crime in West Bengal

PROS&CONS
Press for Justice, but no threats
By overstating his case, Justice Katju does not help the cause of protecting journalists from professional hazards


  BOLLYWOOD
His Lips Are Sealed... for now
Hit music. Skin show. Liplock. An Emraan Hashmi film was once a genre in itself before he made a quiet transition to ‘meaningful’ cinema. Sunaina Kumar meets the actor on the sets of Raaz 3

ART
The Dark Horse at MoMA
Museum of Modern Art’s newest find, artist Shambhavi Singh is charting a quiet and spectacular journey across the contemporary Indian art scene, finds Sahar Zaman

BOOKS
The Island of Tears
Despite an evocative writing, a cloying predictability weighs Romesh Gunesekera’s narrative down, says Mitali Saran

BOOKS
The System Will leak
An incomplete biography offers an elaborate glimpse into the life of the WikiLeaks founder, says Ravi Sundaram

IDEAS 2011
‘I joined the Jihad, and rejected it’
Former Islamist extremist Maajid Nawaz makes a case for the co-existence of Islam and democracy to Christopher Dickey

FILM REVIEW - PAAN SINGH TOMAR
Snappy Feet
By Mona J

PSYCHOLOGIES
‘In art, it is conventional to be anti-conventional’-Kiran Subbaiah, 41, Artist
By Aradhna Wal

PERSONAL HISTORIES:STUDENT ACTIVISM
‘Cyclists no longer overtake cars, but their humour is intact’
By Bhaskar Phukan

     



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