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ANDHRA CONGRESS
The shine is gone, the scabs are showing
By ROHINI MOHAN
 
OPINION
How Many Ramanujans? 300?
By GIRISH KARNAD
 
ARCHIVE MAY 2011
CAG report indicts
Vilasrao
By ASHISH KHETAN
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
LAND SCAM
BJP guns for Vilasrao’s head after CAG report indicts him
CAG report holding 10 Maha ministers guilty of land scam reiterates what Tehelka had reported in 2011

TERRORISM
'Pakistan will never allow prosecution of Hafeez Saeed'
Ayesha Siddiqa talks about why the Pakistani court of law is sympathetic to 26/11 accused Saeed


UTTAR PRADESH
Akhilesh orders roll back of Maya’s reservation bounty
The new CM has asked for the reservation policy for the promotion of SC/ST officers to be suspended

MCD ELECTIONS
Civic issues swept into the gutter as politics takes priority
To win Town Hall, Congress and BJP leaders are busy handling infighting, ahead of next year’s Assembly polls

ODISHA
Both tribunal and CAG say: This steel has stains
The objections of National Green Tribunal and CAG to the way the state govt steamrolled the POSCO project

FINANCE
RBI keeps mum on the biggest bank scam
Hushes up FEMA violations during the sale of forex derivatives, leading to a loss of Rs 25 lakh crore

TEHELKA ARCHIVES
Energy? Not In My Backyard!
Jaitapur. Srikakulam. Every power plant is dogged by a conflict today. How can India solve its power riddle?

JAMMU AND KASHMIR
Housing census shows dramatic spurt in places of worship
Experts attribute the rise to the increase in ‘sectarianism’, which leads people to build exclusive domains

SOCIAL WELFARE
Child development efforts are taking baby steps to change
Childfund, the NGO, is celebrating 60 years of little patches of happiness and childhood dreams

THEATRE
The journey of jatra: Traversing miles on a stage
The mobile theatre spawns an economy that churns out 5 times the revenue of the Oriya film industry

 
  OPINION
Beware the Wounded tigers
If Mahinda Rajapaksa doesn’t heal the wounds of the Sri Lankan Tamils, another Prabhakaran will rise

ANSHUMAN MISHRA
The man who knew too much
Who is Anshuman Mishra? What did the BJP see in him to offer him a Rajya Sabha nomination? Revati Laul profiles the man who is making the party squirm

OPINION
The Heat is on New Delhi
The crackdown on Tibetans in India may backfire by provoking rather than preventing martyrs

FOREST UNDER THREAT
Delhi will go dry as you get taken for a ride
If Haryana has its way, the NCR’s vital groundwater recharge zone could soon make way for an amusement park, says Janani Ganesan

CHHATTISGARH
His Brother Was Burnt Alive
Sodi Nanda was killed in 2007. Four years later, his brother wants justice, but cannot get it, says Prakhar Jain

ODISHA NAXAL CRISIS
Hostage to the politics of peace
A year later, another abduction, more hostages, more demands. Why were no lessons learnt, asks Tusha Mittal

KASHMIR
Return to Paradise?
The J&K government’s rehabilitation policy for former militants who crossed the LoC is an unfulfilled promise, says Baba Umar

OPINION
Tendulkar’s Powerplay
Cricketer’s call for switching off lights for Earth Hour could end up being counterproductive

WHAT ON EARTH
Still Counting More Tigers Per Tiger
A decade after the pugmark count method was junked as unreliable, the camera-based scientific estimation protocol remains as susceptible to human error and fudging

PROS&CONS
New family laws are divorced from reality
The Centre’s moves to make divorces easy look good on paper but may end up giving a raw deal to women who are not financially independent

IN COLD BLOOD
‘Wakf Board chairman offered me Rs 4 crore as bribe’
KSMC Chairman Anwar Manippady tells Imran Khan that encroached land should be given back to the Karnataka Wakf Board


  ART REVIEW
A city runs Through it
In deeply religious Benares, an artist finds other faces of faith, says Karuna John

CONVERSATIONS
Break Boxing
Amit Chaudhuri and Anup Kutty riff on what makes music and how the great India story is appropriating the rest

PREVIEW
Put Your Art Where Your Mouth Is
Indian artists may not want their art to be weighed on a social justice scale but don’t mind if their actions are, finds Aradhna Wal

BOOKS
The Word is Not Enough
This new anthology challenges the way in which we read, says Samhita Arni

BOOKS
A turn For The Verse
Tishani Doshi has lovely central images and ideas that her poems cannot sustain, says Nikhil Govind

FILM REVIEW - AGENT VINOD
A Gun At Every Turn
By Mona J

PSYCHOLOGIES
‘I paint those tortured by everyday violence’
- Zakkir Hussain, 42, Artist

By Aradhna Wal

PERSONAL HISTORIES:HOME ALONE
‘The TV was on to chase the ghosts dad wasn’t around to fight’
By Aditi Kapoor

     



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