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EDITOR'S CUT
Why is the possibility
of alternative thought
so outlawed in
this country?
By SHOMA CHAUDHURY
  KASHMIR
Sarpanch killings: How Omar Abdullah failed the panchayat system
  FABRICATED CASES
A people’s hearing on false cases puts the spotlight on the state’s heavy-handedness
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 ACCORD
Ekta Parishad signs accord, march ends at Agra for now
A draft of national land reforms policy will be developed within six months by a task force chaired by Jairam Ramesh

KARNATAKA
Cauvery Monitoring Committee directs Karnataka to release 8.75 TMC water to Tamil Nadu
State, refused to accept directive, claims that it is not binding and no water can be released for now


JAMMU & KASHMIR
J&K govt admits to having started work on Wullar Barrage
The issue of the Wullar Barrage has been at the centre of a long drawn diplomatic stand off between India and Pakistan

UTTAR PRADESH
Mayawati keeps UPA hanging, defers decision of support
The BSP chief puts hers decision to support UPA on hold; to mobilise public opinion against anti-people policies

NRHM
MLA abducts CMO, orders him to appoint doctors of his choice
Gonda MLA allegedly forced CMO to include names of his favoured candidates in the list of newly appointed doctors

BHOPAL
Bhopal disaster waste haunts
Madhya Pradesh

A month after talks with a German company to dispose waste broke down, the state govt is in a quandary to meet SC deadline, reports Prakhar Jain

CHHATTISGARH
NCW first shuts, then reopens Soni Sori’s case
Despite repeated appeals by women’s rights groups to look into Sori’s case, NCW had turned blind eye to the issue

POLITICS
Kejriwal produces more 'evidence' implicating DLF, Vadra
Congress dubs Kejriwal’s allegations as a gimmick, raises question about the genuineness of documents produced

KASHMIR
Will all-weather connectivity to Kashmir bring development?
Riyaz Wani on how it will impact the geo-political strategy of India and the lives of the people in the state

KARNATAKA
Saudi Police detain Indian doctor in Riyadh, give no reason
Usmane Ghani was picked up Saudi authorities and taken to an undisclosed location on 8 October

ASSAM
Jayanthi Natarajan visits Kaziranga, assures 'soft' grant
Despite numerous incidents of rhino poaching, the minister claimed ‘there was no crisis’

JAMMU & KASHMIR
Three men disrupt Assembly, jump into the well of the house
The youths belong to a newly floated political party and created disruption in order to grab media attention

MEGHALAYA
Reverend allegedly molests, rapes minors only to be shielded
Despite repeated complaints from child rights activists, the arrested reverend is yet to be produced in court

PROTEST
Farmers’ groups oppose land acquisition bill and FDI in retail
Alleging that multi-brand retail would worsen the situation for marginal farmers, farmers' groups from south India asked the government to do a policy rethink

POLITICS
‘We have to make a new Gujarat and we will’
Sonia Gandhi visits Rajkot, sounds out poll alert by convincing farmers of the benefits of FDI in retail

EXCLUSIVE
‘It was Anna's idea to form a political party, but he backed out’
Arvind Kejriwal talks about his split with Anna Hazare, the future of the IAC movement, and what lies ahead

PNDT ACT
Civil society urges govt to remove accused under the PNDT Act from committee
Dr Harsh Mahajan is an accused in a case filed by Mitu Khurana who was forced to undergo sex determination test

OPINION
Only Indie can save our cinema!
Big productions backed by stars flex their muscle at multiplexes, while Indie filmmakers get odd slots, writes Bikas Ranjan Mishra

HEALTH
World Mental Health Day: Marginalisation needs to stop
Communities should work towards reducing the stigma associated with patients suffering from psychiatric illnesses, writes Jay Desai

BOOKS
'Shanghai is a place where great crime should almost take place'
Debutant author Madhumita Bhattacharya talks about crime, food and the addictive world of fiction

 

  MANIPUR
The dirty clean-up work
Two years after Tehelka exposed the corruption in the Loktak Lake Project in Manipur, questions still remain unanswered, says Kunal Majumder

  TEHELKA ARCHIVES
Punjab: Rich & Ruined
75% of the youth. Every third student. 65% of all families in Punjab are in the throes of a sweeping drug addiction.

ASSAM FLOODS
When a house is washed away
Year after year, Majuli loses a chunk of its land to the Brahmaputra. But is nature alone to blame for the loss to the island and the people living on it? Ratnadip Choudhury explores

2012 ASSEMBLY POLLS
Modi’s achilles heel
Disgruntled rural voters could upset the Gujarat chief minister’s applecart

WHAT ON EARTH
Snake bites and poisoned stats
Due to poor quality and unavailability of anti-venom serum, snakebites kill nearly 50,000 people in India every year. But with not even 3 percent of the deaths showing up in official records, the State refuses to fight the epidemic killing its rural poor

REPORTER’S DIARY
The party after the split
Revati Laul ruminates on why she once believed. And now no longer does

MINING AND TRIBALS
‘Indiscriminate mining is the root cause of tribal unrest’
Union Minister for Tribal Affairs, V Kishore Chandra Deo tells Prakhar Jain how mining in scheduled areas alienates tribals.

HIMACHAL
Scent of rebellion in the apple orchard
Ticket distribution proves to be a headache for the Congress, reports Ashhar Khan

BOOKS
Abbottabad and after
Imtiaz Gul’s book connects the dots between Osama bin Laden’s death and the rising terror attacks on Pakistani cities, says Kunal Majumder


OPINION
The Business of Faking Dreams
The glitter of reality shows and the feel-good factor of promoting talent from across the nation masks a purely commercial vision for the future of our arts and culture, says Rajeev Sethi

APPRAISAL
The grand old man of history
By Shahid Amin

SPORTS
Having A Ball
Young girls from a Mumbai slum are using football to break new grounds. Sunaina Kumar reports

ART
The Art Mart
Annurag Sharma, and Johny ML have brought unnoticed art to the masses. Can they sustain it as a truly democratic model? Aradhna Wal finds out

BOOKS
‘Islamic science is a creation of Euro-American universities’
In his new book Jihad or Ijtihad, historian of science S Irfan Habib, 59, examines the uncomfortable relationship between Islam and science. He tells Kunal Majumder why the two must co-exist.

BOOKS
How ‘Mahatma’ Betrays Gandhi
Is a flattened, boxed and labelled Gandhi the parable of our times, asks Aditi Saxton

FILM REVIEW - OMG OH MY GOD!
God, Of All Things!
By Kaushik Kashyap

FILM REVIEW - KAMAAL DHAMAAL MALAMAAL
No Laughs Lost
By Kaushik Kashyap

PSYCHOLOGIES
‘The indie music scene works with a DIY ethic’ - Arjun S Ravi, 28, NH7 Co-Founder
By Esha Vaish

PERSONAL HISTORIES: EDUCATION
‘I realised that it wasn’t about exams or ranks, but medicine’
By Kameswari Padmanabhan

     
 



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