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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
UTTAR PRADESH
Azam Khan has last laugh as Bukhari accepts lone SP ticket
Umer Ali to file nomination for council seat on Friday, Akhilesh Yadav promises to take care of Muslim needs

HOSTAGE CRISIS
Maoists free Italian hostage Paolo Bosusco
On release, the tour guide thanked the people of Odisha and expressed his desire to go home to Italy


TEHELKA IMPACT
Rajasthan transfers 3 Sariska officials as SC, NTCA intervene
Forest minister Bina Kak has shifted two assistant conservators of forests and a srange officer out of the tiger reserve

CHILD ABUSE
Battered by father, baby Afreen dies of cardiac arrest
Umar Farook had assaulted his three-month-old daughter because he wanted
a son

CONTROVERSY
‘MoD knew about the Tatra scam since 2002’
Bangalore based whistleblower claimed that Tatra Sipox was a broking firm, wrote more than 30 letters to the authorities over the last 10 years

KERELA
Communist mascot has no place in politburo
State unit leader Pinarayi Vijayan stalls Kerala Oppn leader VS Achuthanandan’s re-entry in the politburo

POLITICS
All hell keeps breaking loose
for UPA

CP Bhambri on how political parties
are not doing justice to the mandate of voters

ISRAEL EMBASSY ATTACK
Journalists’ fraternity appeal for Kazmi’s release
Many denounce the Urdu scribe’s arrest as wrongful, and promises to wage the battle till he is released

OPINION
It’s all in the family for the Rajapakses
Suhas Chakma says the making of Sri Lanka into a hermit kingdom suits the ruling clique

OPINION
US polices the world only for itself
Jaibans Singh points out that India’s concerns on Hafiz Sayeed never moved the US to act

PAKISTAN
Speak softly and carry a big
stick

Ali Ahmed on how it is the Pakistan army and not the state which is a problem for India

 
  PUNJAB
What hit this land of plenty?
75% of the youth. Every third student. 65% of all families in Punjab are in the throes of a sweeping drug addiction. With little or no hope in sight. Sai Manish examines why

ANDHRA CONGRESS
The shine is gone, the scabs are showing
What impact will the CBI inquiry on Jagan have? Will the Congress be able to hold on to the YSR legacy, asks Rohini Mohan

HEALTH
Polio Drops but leaves a deadly new trail
While we celebrate a polio-free year, the vaccine seems to have triggered another killer disease, reports Shonali Ghosal

KARNATAKA
Wakf Land Scam Puts Congress in a Spot
Congressmen accused in the wakf land scam give the Karnataka BJP a reason to smile, reports Imran Khan

ODISHA
POSCO’s steel dreams laid to rust
With the National Green Tribunal scrapping environment clearance, Posco’s seven-year-wait is extended further, reports Bibhuti Pati

CHHATTISGARH
The Story of One School. Why 650 children came and only 200 remained
By Prakhar Jain

WHAT ON EARTH
Blasting the Tigers Away
Sariska has refused to learn its lessons from the 2005 wipeout and is blowing its second chance. As Delhi and Jaipur watch, the reserve is losing its stripes

PROS&CONS
A tribal force or a forced tribulation
The announcement of an anti-Naxal tribal battalion in Gadchiroli by Maharashtra home minister is little more than a knee-jerk reaction

IN COLD BLOOD
'You won’t find such restrictions in any government’
CPM leader Mohammad Salim tells Shonali Ghosal that Mamata Banerjee’s decisions are against democratic norms


  OPINION
How Many Ramanujans? 300?
In exploring aspects of AK Ramanujan’s scholarship, we find facets of a feminist

WOMEN'S RIGHTS
I begin to see that woman doing things: Stirring rice ironing a skirt typing a manuscript till dawn
Our Pictures, Our Words reclaims posters from the sunken histories of women’s representation. Writer-editor Ira Pande tells us why we all need to dive in

BOOKS
The Phoenix Rises
This biography may not have anticipated Aung San Suu Kyi’s reincarnation as a politician, but it certainly is timely, says Shyam Saran

BOOKS
Bombay Belly
Mumbai Noir gives grimy glimpses but doesn’t quite strip the city to its grit, says Sanjay Sipahimalani

FILM REVIEW - BLOOD MONEY
Lazy Fiction
By Mona J

PSYCHOLOGIES
‘Painting the mood of a music piece fascinates me’
- Olivia Fraser, 47, Artist

By Aradhna Wal

PERSONAL HISTORIES:POLO
‘My Rajput friends believed that polo was reserved for them’
By Karan Tejpal

     



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