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DEFENCE DEALS
How the Arms Lobby Really Operates
By RAHUL BEDI
 
FIRST CITIZEN
Who will Win
the Race to
Raisina Hill?
By BRIJESH PANDEY
 
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
ODISHA HOSTAGE CRISIS
Hikaka remains captive as Maoists refuse govt offer
It was expected that the BJD MLA will be released in exchange of freed CMAS members

JAMMU AND KASHMIR
It's yesterday once more at Bund in Srinagar
After languishing in ruins for years, the Bund along the Jhelum is undergoing renovation, reports Riyaz Wani


TEHELKA IMPACT
NTCA refines Phase IV protocol for monitoring tiger population
Once implemented fully, the rules will put India’s tiger monitoring programme well ahead of any other in the world

FARMING
Contract farming is a win-win situation
Sushil Bhan suggests ways by which fragmented farms can yield more for
the fork

OPINION
Muscle-flexing should become history
CP Bhambri urges boosting trade among China, India and Pakistan to bring regional peace

ECONOMY
India can come out of crises, says Pranab
The slowdown is due to slump in manufacturing sector and external
factors

RIGHT TO EDUCATION
Delhi violates RTE clause, delays providing books to 18 lakh kids
Delhi HC seeks explanation for failure to distribute 1.2 crore free books in MCD and government schools

ODISHA
The sacred mountain. And why tribals are willing to die for it
Natives of Niyamgiri said that they have a birthright on the hills and they won't allow mining to their sacred mountain

OPINION
Religion and the craft of custom-built communal riots
Ram Puniyani opines on how manufacturing riots has become an industry in India

OPINION
Will demonising migrants help the Shiv Sena win more votes?
Binoo K John on why both factions of the Shiv Sena must stop the game of ethnic rivalry

OPINION
Air India now a fly-by-subsidy operator
Jitender Bhargava opines on how bailouts will lead the Airline into more turbulent skies

TRADE
Integrated check post at Attari will give a fillip to Indo-Pak trade
Twelve other Integrated Check Posts
(ICPs) are likely to be inaugurated on other border points.

ECONOMY
The holy Ganga will bless its saviours
June 30 is the deadline for cable digitisation in the four metros, but vital questions remain unanswered

INTERVIEW
‘Saleh tried to show that violence is only way to survive’
Tawakkol A Karman, the Nobel Peace laureate, demonstrated how the path of peace is all powerful

 
  TRIBAL REFUGEES
Homeland in sight for the brus?
Mizoram’s Bru tribals, languishing in refugee camps in Tripura for 15 years, seek closure to their misery, reports Ratnadip Choudhury

NOTES FROM NEPAL
Out of the jungle. Into the mainstream. And some lessons for New Delhi
By Avalok Langer

IN COLD BLOOD
‘It is a sin to attend a namaz led by Imam Bukhari’
Senior UP minister Azam Khan tells Virendra Nath Bhatt that he has always been alone in opposing the Shahi Imam

PROS&CONS
Electric cars still waiting for a spark of innovation
Big batteries are weighing down electric vehicles and it’s unlikely that subsidies can lighten that load to make them a viable non-polluting alternative

ODISHA HOSTAGE CRISIS
‘Freeing hardcore Maoists will be an insult to cops’
Sawarmal Sharma, president of the Odisha Police Association, tells Prakhar Jain why he is opposing the release of hardcore Maoists in exchange for abducted Italian national Paolo Bosusco and Laxmipur MLA Jhina Hikaka

WHAT ON EARTH
Field Disorder
The SC deadline for notifying buffer areas around each tiger reserve is being cheered by the greens. But court orders alone can't alter the grim ground reality. A primer


  DALIT ATROCITIES
Unheard. Unseen. Untouched
A new video initiative could jolt our apathy and sensitise us to Dalit atrocities, says Janani Ganesan

MUSIC
A key to Kashmir
Music has the ability to persuade without argument and Dying Breed, the Valley’s first rock band, want that note to echo, says Riyaz Wani

INTERVIEW
‘We have no respect for reputations or brand names’
David Davidar spoke to Susmita Saha about the new dynamics of publishing, why cheque books don’t woo writers and how editors are blamed for failed books

ART & CRAFT
Vasuki goes to Toyland
The toys are coming to life and they’re hauling buried mythologies with them, discovers Susmita Saha

BOOKS
In search of lost time
Parallel tales of a courtesan and a wrestler unevenly evoke an era erased, says Vikram Sampath

BOOKS
The blue period
Anjum Hasan’s stories paint pain and sadness in still life, says Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan

FILM REVIEW - HOUSEFULL 2
A Plague on All Your Houses
By Kamakshi Chakravarti

PSYCHOLOGIES
‘I cook to feed others; I don’t cook to hog all of it myself’ - Aditya Bal, 36, Chef
By Shonali Ghosal

PERSONAL HISTORIES
‘I spent three weeks in Tihar. But I am yet to be a reformed person’
By Anonymous

     



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