UPWARD MOTILITY

Meet India’s sperm donors

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WHODUNIT

Questions that continue to confound us

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The Bereft

In Abhujmaad, the choice Maoists offer is stark: confinement or exile

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BRUTALITY

In Manipur, the police and Assam Rifles arrested an 11-year-old to pressure her parents, suspected separatists, to surrender

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Open Circuit

…but fills motorists with feelings ranging from awe to envy as they vroom down India’s first Formula 1 racetrack

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conservation
The Day of the Ganges Dolphin

Sixteen years after it was listed as endangered, efforts are being made to save the mammal

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Take Two
A Letter to Sachin Tendulkar

Some uncomfortable truths about the star cricketer’s fashion sense

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Cheap Rides
Parking Privileges

A recent study found that major Indian metros have the least parking charges in comparison with other cities across the world.

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Cinema
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Hugo

An anomaly in Scorsese’s oeuvre of mean dystopias, this is his dreamlike tribute to cinema

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Books
Mama Em’s Cope Book

In literature focused on insanity, the gaze seems to have shifted from the insane. The patient is no longer the victim; that status now belongs to the caregiver

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Arts
Old New Delhi

A new photography show features the capital’s Modernist landmarks and the architects who gave them to us

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India’s Parliament turns 60

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…has passed its point of no-return with the recent battle cry sounded at a BSP rebel conclave

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The founder of Mumbai’s Quoin Academy has aced the Common Admission Test six times in as many years. But he neither prepares for these tests nor wants to join a B-school

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Annu Kapoor is a realist. He prays that he’ll be given the gift of beauty, not talent, in his ‘next birth’

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Bedabrata Pain was up to hi-tech wizardry at a Nasa lab in the US before he quit the job to make a film on the Chittagong uprising of 1930

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Niranjan Hiranandani was leased land to build affordable housing. Instead, he made flats for the rich. Now the Bombay High Court has ordered him to keep his original word

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If sexual explicitness caused the most outrage in the early phase of book bans in India, there was a point after which it became almost entirely about religion

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from the open archives

Media

…says Vinod Mehta, Editorial Chairman, Outlook Group, of the story Indian Express ran on Army troop movements towards Delhi

Essay

Why is it obscene to accept that a historically wounded people are ready to move on?

Rediscovered

Piyush Mishra wanted one thing all his life. Then he figured it wasn’t enough

aviation

The wreckage that is India’s aviation sector makes a revival plan urgent. Start by freeing Air India of state control.

Investigation

A different view of the Aarushi murder case

GAG ORDERS

How an image-fixated chief minister has bent the state’s media to his will

Way We Are

Reflections on Indianness from an Indian abroad

Anniversary

On the his birth centenary, we bring you an excerpt from a brutally honest essay by his friend and colleague.