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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
MARUTI CLASH
Chief secretary orders probe into the violence, arrest warrants out for workers
HR manager died due to burn injuries, 1,200 policemen keep guard at the plant a day after unrest

PATERNITY SUIT
ND Tiwari’s DNA test result to be made public next week
The Delhi High Court has also rejected an appeal by Tiwari to conduct a fresh in-camera trial


POLITICS
Don’t want to talk to the govt anymore: Hazare to PM
In a letter to PM, Anna Hazare says he will continue with people’s agitation till the Jan Lokpal Bill is introduced in Parliament

CHENNAI
Driving drunk may land you behind bars in Chennai. Literally.
A mobile court in the city recently sentenced five offenders to simple imprisonment for 15 days

CRIME
News Live editor resigns, police arrest 12 of 14 accused
Atanu Bhuyan raises questions about the fairness of the investigation, main culprit Amarjyoti Kalita still absconding

ANDHRA PRADESH
With Jaganmohan in jail, CM Reddy seeks image makeover
Seeking a people friendly image, Kiran Kumar Reddy, will spend three days every week in the districts

KARNATAKA
Deconstructing the defiance of Yeddyurappa
The BJP’s poster boy has access to Lingayat votes and enjoys the support of those indifferent to the Sangh

OPINION
There are genders beyond the genders that we know
Why is it so important for society to constrict people in brackets of a man and a woman, asks Harish Iyer

TAMIL NADU
“We don’t eat their food, it is not untouchability, just our custom”
Upper caste parents refuse to send children to school because two Dalit women cooked the mid-day meal

OPINION
Salwa Judum redux in Odisha
to fight Maoists

Minati Dash asks how fighting for their constitutional land rights makes tribals Maoists

BOOK REVIEW
Women in Hindi cinema: Rising from the periphery
A new book on the leading ladies of Hindi cinema could be a useful primer of Indian popular culture

BOOK EXTRACT
The never diminishing charisma of Rajesh Khanna
This extract throws light upon the actor's star power, his universal appeal and his meteoric rise to the top

 

  THE DETOX
6. Bleeding the wealth creators dry
The dysfunctional tax regime has become an albatross that is strangling our economy

LAILA KHAN MURDER
How Parvez Tak lost his head
The back story of how a Kashmiri carpenter met a Mumbai starlet and her mother and why it ended in death. By Riyaz Wani

BHOPAL GAS TRAGEDY
A token clean-up won’t detox Bhopal
The Centre’s plan to dispose a fraction of the hazardous UCC waste is too little, too late, for the long-suffering victims, says Shonali Ghosal

RAJASTHAN
Omerta reigns after honour killing
By Kunal Majumder


  CINEMA
The ordinary star
Character actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui stars in eight new films. Here he tells Sunaina Kumar just how long it’s taken him to become an overnight sensation

MIND THE G|A|P
Singing the blues
High tide. The waves are lapping the shore only 20 feet away from me. A man has come out of his house next door and is tossing small pieces of bread at the seagulls. In two or three hours, when the water retreats, my children will catch tiny sand crabs.

MUSIC
Punk sans protest
Aradhna Wal watches poppunk band The Vinyl Records play to a bored corporate crowd and wonders what happened to rebellion

BOOKS
‘Indira Gandhi has done the most damage to India’
Revati Laul in conversation with Kuldip Nayar

BOOKS
The Maoist insurgency and the shadow of the State
Through well-researched essays and first-hand accounts this compilation makes for informative reading, says EN Rammohan

CINEMA
Art or Artifice?
Caught in two minds, Shougat Dasgupta wonders if Gangs of Wasseypur is a triumph of form or a betrayal of content

CRAFT
Dark side of the loom
In Andhra’s craft market, weavers once spun success stories. Today, the tables have turned for the worse, says Amitangshu Acharya

FILM REVIEW - BOL BACHCHAN
The Death of Comedy
By Mona J

FILM REVIEW - MAXIMUM
Killing Bore
By Shone Satheesh Babu

PSYCHOLOGIES
‘Film actors often can’t perform for live audiences’
By Esha Vaish

PERSONAL HISTORIES: CIVIL SERVICES
‘I had spent four years in dingy rooms of coaching institutes’
By Manish Raj

     
 



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