Public Opinion
BY Hartosh Singh Bal
The Unreliable Source

The second rung of the Congress party, where there is much jostling for power, is the origin of some of the most ridiculous political spin in recent times

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THROWAWAY
BY Jatin Gandhi
The Bungle Jumble Party

God’s gift to the Congress

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HAZARD
BY Kajal Basu
Poison in Paradise

How burning garbage and indiscriminate quarrying on the coast could spell the death of the Andaman Islands

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COOL-OFF
BY Lhendup G Bhutia
Inside Scoop

The joys of artisanal ice-cream

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Divine
BY Akshay Sawai
The Devil in a God-fearing Home

The parents of S Sreesanth, a devout couple,  might be thinking even god can't help their son now.

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Superstition
Curtains for Your Political Career

The renovation jinx of Maharashtra politicians

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Take Two
The All-Seeing Eye

What cases of police personnel getting caught on camera hitting women say about a welcome new world in the making

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BANALITY
Till the Pips Squeak

Recently, actor-author Jayant Kripalani and author-columnist Shobhaa De participated in a lively conversation

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Cinema
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Star Trek Into Darkness

A super villain whose name is Khan, a confusing plot and some superb action
BY Ajit Duara
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Cinema
The Poor Man’s Pop Star

For years, Mithun Chakraborty has been a victim of elite prejudice—what multiplex goers call a ‘downmarket’ star.
BY Shaikh Ayaz
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Arts
Inside Out Artist

Nikhil Chopra redraws history in performance
BY Divya Saxena
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The All-Seeing Eye

What cases of police personnel getting caught on camera hitting women say about a welcome new world in the making

BY Madhavankutty Pillai
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Eternal Tales in The Electronic Age

The first act of Amar Chitra Katha’s rescue is over. The brand has survived. But Act Two will be tricky

BY Anusha Subramanian
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Just Another Massacre

Sinam Ongbi Chandrajini lost children in a massacre in Malom in 2000. It was the horror of this incident that led Irom Sharmila to begin her fast against AFSPA

BY Chinki Sinha
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That Fizzling Sound

As cola drinks are shunned by health junkies

BY Akshay Sawai
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The Khan Who Couldn’t

Nawaz Sharif’s party won a near majority in Pakistan’s National Assembly. But it was Imran Khan’s campaign that animated the polls

BY Zubair A Dar
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Collateral Clean-Up

It may not entirely be a sense of duty that is motivating CBI Director Ranjit Sinha

BY Mihir Srivastava
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Case No. 1

Azad Khan, 12, was shot in Manipur, allegedly for being an insurgent. This was one of six extra judicial killings

BY Chinki Sinha
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sports
Sucker Called the Sports Fan

Match-fixing is by no means endemic to cricket. If diehard followers of a game, whichever they follow, feel let down, they have only their own credulity to blame.

BYAkshay Sawai
Paranoia
Love Jihad

As the BJP seeks another term in Karnataka, Hindutva’s foot soldiers raise a battlecry against cross-community romance

BYAnil Budur Lulla
MANIPULATION
The Congress Bureau of Investigation

Big stick politics. Will it ever end?

BYMihir Srivastava
Public Opinion
Minorities and the Mob

A quarter of a century after 1984, the nature of the State remains a life-and-death matter for some of us.

BYHartosh Singh Bal
threat
China’s War Plan

China can take Arunachal in 48 hours. And we are in no hurry to do anything about it.

BYSuman Sharma
OTHER HALF
“I am Narendra Modi’s Wife”

The woman believed to be the wife of the most powerful man in Gujarat lives in a one-room home

BYHaima Deshpande
Nexus
How Big Business Gets Its Way

Companies like Vedanta are brazenly taking over governance in some parts of India

BYMihir Srivastava
Investigation
Worse than a Daughter’s Death

A different view of the Aarushi murder case

BYPatrick French
Clemency
Hanging by a Thread

Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar is on death row. The charges levelled against him don’t stick, but President Pratibha Patil has rejected his mercy petition.

BYShruti Ravindran
MANIPULATION
The Congress Bureau of Investigation

Big stick politics. Will it ever end?

BYMihir Srivastava