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RELIGIOUS DIVIDE
The Fight For
Kashmir's Soul

By RIYAZ WANI
 
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
JAMMU AND KASHMIR
Car bomb blast leaves one dead, 14 injured in valley
Police downplay the incident, say it might be an aborted attempt by militants to make their presence felt

UTTAR PRADESH
Lokayukta Act amended for the first time in 35 years
Move allows two year extension to the incumbent Lokayukta Justice Mehrotra whose term ended on 15 March


FOREIGN AFFAIRS
India-Iran ties on the right track, says Ahmadinejad
Iran optimistic about its relation with India in spite of intense pressure from the US and Israel

SRINAGAR
Noted faith-healer Jalal-u-Din shot at in Srinagar
This attack on the octogenarian has sectarian overtones and may have been carried out by conservative groups

ODISHA HOSTAGE CRISIS
Maoists declare ceasefire,
float list with 13 demands

Nominate three negotiators to involve in dialogue, scrapping of Operation Green Hunt among top demands

KARNATAKA
Yeddy loyalists stay away from budget session
In a show of solidarity with their chief, 40 out of 122 BJP MLAs boycott state budget session

CRICKET
Congrats, Sachin! And thank you
Tendulkar has thrilled us in many impossible ways for too long. The 100th ton scraped off the pitch, the maestro, and his billion fans, now must get a life

BLACK MONEY
Baba Ramdev’s epic swindle has many twists and turns
The self-styled crusader against corruption sits atop an empire built on corrupt deals

OPINION
A noose in the garb of
a garland

Tampering with naturally formed water flow systems will only kill the rivers, writes Binoo K John

BANKING
Delhi races ahead of other cities in per capita deposits list
The per capita deposits of the state is Rs 3.16 lakh, according to an economic survey

OPINION
The Anna Hazare movement and the limits of sternness
Pali Reen on how Team Anna got checkmated because it claimed to have the perfect bill

JAMMU AND KASHMIR
Militants warn Kashmir media over ‘pro-Govt, ‘biased’ reportage
Stern message asks journalists to shun work for Govt and highlight plight of their ‘brethren’

FIRST SHOW
Reasons Why Agent Vinod
may click

Nandita Mehta tells us why this spy thriller may make it big and what obstructs its path

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

MUSIC
Singer Lucky Ali's USP lies in being an everyman musician
TO ME MUSIC was never an education, it was and is more of a hobby” says Lucky Ali

REVIEW
Gibberish for vocals leads to a musical death
Kinny's songwriting takes a dozen hearings before sinking in--yes, her new album is that bad

SLY CULTURE
The Bollywood saga of frenemies and a fairy tale redux
Of old ideas and new voice, Twitter rage and Tagore’s treasure trove
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  RSS
Military Medium for the Parivar
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s speech at the Bhonsala Military School, calling for a more militant Hinduism, smacks of an ideology crisis in the Sangh, says Rana Ayyub

EMBASSY CAR BLAST
The Storyteller Becomes the Story
Police claim scribe Syed Ahmed Kazmi is the local hand involved in the Israeli Embassy car blast. But nobody is buying that argument. Abhishek Bhalla and G Vishnu report

ANIMAL CONFLICT
Doggyleaks: The Truth about Kashmir’s Canines and the Cost of Negligence
Sterilising canines and a proper civic waste disposal system is the only proven and legal way to avoid the man-dog conflict, says Lisa Warden

WHAT ON EARTH
DoPT comes to Hooda’s rescue
Haryana waves a timely and dubious DoPT note in the Centre’s face to scuttle a CBI probe and muzzle a whistleblower

POLITICS
Watch out for Kingmakers
Both the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party are delusional. But the idea of a new third front is equally wishful

UTTARAKHAND
A temporary reprieve for the Congress
CM contender Harish Rawat has been pacified but things could still go wrong for the party, says Brijesh Pandey

COMMUNITY RADIO
FM of the Masses
A ministry and the people are working together to promote a grassroots movement. Janani Ganesan tunes in to the community radio revolution in India

EARS TO THE GROUND
‘The idea of fact has itself become blurry’
The highly coveted Chameli Devi Jain Award 2012, judged by industry peers, was awarded to Tehelka’s Special Correspondent Tusha Mittal for her ‘courageous and balanced reportage’. Below is an edited excerpt of her acceptance speech

IN COLD BLOOD
‘Modi has let oligarchs loot Gujarat’s land resources’
Gujarat Congress chief Arjun Modhwadia tells Kunal Majumder that BPL families deserve doles more than rich industrialists

PROS&CONS
Stretching the law for the sake of holy cows
By equating cow slaughter with culpable homicide, some state governments are falling into the trap of propagating certain religious beliefs over others


  CINEMA
They Called Him Renegade
Student politics, gangsters and now a near perfect biopic. Tigmanshu Dhulia’s success has been a long time coming, says Sunaina Kumar

ART AUCTION
Flocking to Sotheby’s
With Syed Haider Raza’s landmark painting up for sale, Bharati Chaturvedi traces its glamorous history

THEATRE
Winners, Enter Stage Right
The META Awards have transformed Delhi’s isolated theatre scene into a grand national event, finds Nishita Jha

ART EXHIBITION
The art we almost forgot
One of the most comprehensive collections of art on Delhi from Mughal era is on display in New York. If only the Capital could relish it too, says Sunaina Kumar

FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
The fine art of Intolerance
There is political capital to be gained from an extra-thin skin if you are willing to let the horizon shrink, warns Kiran Nagarkar

BOOKS
The buried history of Islam
Saeed Akhtar Mirza’s new book is an intriguing read of the achievements of Islamic thinkers, says Mahmood Farooqui

BOOKS
‘We’re not quite sure if we should be having affairs’
BORED IN your marriage? Chennai-based psychiatrist and well-known marriage counsellor Vijay Nagaswami, 54, is out with his third book in the The New Indian Marriage series. He tells Karuna John to go bungee jumping instead of biting the infidelity apple

PSYCHOLOGIES
‘It was my father’s ending but my beginning’
- Manish Nai, 32, Artist

By Aradhna Wal

PERSONAL HISTORIES:DEATH
‘When my Granddad died, he took away the actor in me’
By Rishika Chengappa

     



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