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EDITOR'S CUT
We need a deeper debate on how to use national resources transparently and judiciously

  INTERVIEW
We will not move
a no-confidence motion: Arun Jaitley on coal scam

By SHOMA CHAUDHURY
  INTERNAL SECURITY
Muslims have reason to believe they are being persecuted: NC Asthana, IG, COBRA
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
POLITICS
Not taking it lying down
Post the 2G and Anna-Ramdev fiasco, the Congress has now turned a new leaf and adopted an aggressive approach in tackling the BJP, writes Brijesh Pandey

KARNATAKA
B’lore Police arrest 11 men planning attacks in the city
Those arrested were reportedly HUJI activists trained to carry out assassination bids on politicians & noted journalists


LONDON PARALYMPICS
'Get with the Games or get out of our way'
Hosting the Games that begin on 29 Aug, London is far from losing its electric buzz post Olympics, finds Nishita Jha

JAMMU & KASHMIR
APDP moves petition to SHRC for DNA tests on unmarked graves
Parents of those missing urges SHRC to carry out DNA tests to ascertain the identities of those buried

UTTAR PRADESH
Is a sulking Azam Khan going to strike work?
Urban development minister tells officers not to send him any files till “indiscipline & insubordination” persists in his dept

26/11 ATTACKS
SC upholds the death sentence for Ajmal Kasab
The apex court found the lone surviving terrorist from the 2008 Mumbai attacks guilty of “waging war against the State”

ENVIRONMENT
Greenpeace report urges telecom companies to shift to renewable energy
The paper reveals cellular service providers to be the biggest consumer of diesel after railways in India

ANDHRA PRADESH
Pradesh Congress Committee gets into a tizzy after chief Botsa admits to losing job
Political hopefuls in Andhra Pradesh have started placing their bets over the next PCC boss

JAMMU & KASHMIR
Militants force a shutdown of construction at Wullar Lake
Indo-Pak dispute over Kashmir waters has become the cause of violence after militants halt work at an ongoing project

PENSION REFORMS
70 MPs demand universal old-age pension from govt
Pension Parishad and MP Manicka Tagore to seek support of other MPs demanding pension reforms

UTTAR PRADESH
UP govt to honour those detained during the Emergency
It was also decided to reallocate 900 acres of land to irrigation dept that was given to realtors by BSP

KERALA
Govt to orphanages: Don't admit under-12 kids from Northeast and Naxal-infested states
Govt crackdown on illegal child trafficking comes in the wake of 23 Manipuri minors being rescued earlier this month

PARLIAMENT
PM tells Parliament that the premise of the CAG is flawed
Statement on Performance Audit Report on Allocation of Coal Blocks and Augmentation of Coal Production

INTERVIEW
‘Call for separate Bodoland might grow louder if our land is not protected’
Bodoland Territorial Council chief Hagrama Mohilary tells Ratnadip Choudhury why a sense of alienation is predominant in Bodo areas

INTERNET CENSORSHIP
Censoring the Internet: A brief manual
Blocking websites should be proportionate to harm they intend. However, the govt of India's approach is against the principles of natural justice

INTERVIEW
‘The Assange case has distorted the definition of rape’
Wikileaks spokesperson Kristinn Hrafnsson tells Sai Manish that Sweden might just be a pit-stop for the British to hand over Assange to the Americans

ASSAM
Bodo MLA’s arrest for abetting riots leaves Kokrajhar tense
Pradeep Brahma has been arrested for instigating riots, remanded to judicial custody for 14 days

NUCLEAR POWER
Civil society hits out at govt at the first hearing on nuke power
Many complain that their protests against lack of safety measures have been vilified as ‘misguided’

CHHATTISGARH
Chhattisgarh's Peon Culture
Thanks to a flawed promotion policy, many undeserving candidates are increasingly occupying powerful positions

TIGER TOURISM
Six questions to fix the mess
The interim ban on tourism in core tiger reserves has sharply polarised conservationists, communities and the tourism sector. But it is possible to reconcile their interests

QUALITY
All that glitters will now be hallmarked
In order to safeguard interests of consumers, CAG asks govt to make gold certification mandatory

ASSAM
Northeast and its ceaseless struggle with human trafficking
Misery seems to be a byword for the Northeast as besides dealing with floods and riots, it serves as a hunting ground for traffickers

MEDIA
‘I had to articulate what a lot of people felt but hadn’t said’
Manushi editor Madhu Kishwar tells Karuna John what made her write an angry two-part open letter to news anchor Arnab Goswami

HEALTH
Irulas to play Pied Pipers at govt hospitals in Tamil Nadu
After an infant’s corpse was found with bite marks in a state hospital, the traditional rat catchers are going to be roped in to deal with the menace

 


  NATIONALISM
The broken idea of India
The strife in Assam and beyond shows that our Indianness itself is an oppressive shackle
By Jay Mazoomdaar

  OPINION
Where’s the rainbow, Raj?
As Maharashtra’s political landscape fragments, Raj Thackeray makes a risky play for power
By Sidharth Bhatia

  OPINION
Of coal and power play
The Congress is on the back-foot and cynical. The BJP is on the front-foot and cynical. Where does that leave the rest of India?
By Ashok Malik

PAKISTAN
The fanatics of the idiot box
Pakistani TV may be free, but it’s also furious. Saim Saeed on the television boom and the controversies surrounding news anchors in the country

PROS & CONS
Governance suffers at the altar of populism
The Government’s plan to dole out free cell phones is the latest episode in the sop opera. It focusses on short-term gains at the cost of the country’s future
By Jayaprakash Narayan



 

ACTIVISM
Lost in the land of chup
Ramu Ramanathan, playwright and part of the KKM Defence Committee, describes their surreal dialogue with the authorities and the ongoing fight for justice


  ACTIVISM
Lauding the new
Ranvir Shah, founder of PECDA, tells Akhila Krishnamurthy why contemporary dance cannot be left isolated on our cultural landscape.

BOOKS
Pussy Riot
Columnist and editor Nilanjana Roy’s first novel doesn’t condescend or anthropomorphise but makes a serious attempt at imagining a feline world, says Jai Arjun Singh

THEATRE
The Bard Goes Glocal
Piya Behrupiya, the Hindi translation of Twelfth Night, made London, Mumbai and Delhi laugh in all the right places, says Aradhna Wal

BOOKS
‘You have to convince people to buy your shit’
STONER MOVIES, zombie classics and cult favourites inspired this pacy and bizarre debut novel. Jugal Mody’s Toke makes for an engaging read. The 28-year-old former TEHELKA web editor tells Saim Saeed why breaking the norm to give the reader a trip is an important task at hand for an author.

FILM REVIEW - EK THA TIGER
All Roar, No bite
By Sunaina Kumar

PSYCHOLOGIES
‘Artists are often misunderstood by others’ - Jiten Hazarika, 75, Artist
By Nikita Bohra

PERSONAL HISTORIES: PREJUDICE
‘I wasn’t just any other foreigner in India. I was the foreigner’
By Saim Saeed

     
 



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