Factionalism
BY Jatin Gandhi
Modi’s BJP

And how an injured Advani still has a game in play

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NEGLECT
BY Shahina KK
A World Without Men

There are many settlements in Kerala’s Attappady tribal block that have only women, mostly widows with tragic lives. A close look at a peculiar imbalance

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Diagnosis
BY Aanchal Bansal
The Fault, Dear Brutus, Lies in the Genes

Genetic testing for health risks holds plenty of promise in India, so long as enough people take to it

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Secession
BY Raksha Kumar
Meet the Freegans

Some of them make abandoned buildings their home. A few scavenge for food. Most of them talk eloquently about freedom. What they have in common is an ideal: of living...

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Fanaticism
BY Michael Edison Hayden
Zombies United

Pirated feeds, Toyota commercials in Arabic, long distance calls to Dad. The challenges and joys of watching American sports in India

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Votebank politics
The Deshmukh-Chavan Battle over Latur Express

Two political dynasties of Maharashtra are in a tug-of-war over the train’s destination

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Take Two
Spot the Crime

The fixing going on in the game played by the police to screw Sreesanth and Co

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FLY ON
Saving the Indian Bustard

Now there is hope of the species’ survival in the country.

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Cinema
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Yamla Pagla Deewana 2

The sequel misses the Punjabi humour of the original film
BY Ajit Duara
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Cinema
The DIY Filmmakers

Raj Nidimoru and Krishna DK, among the first filmmakers to get zombies into Bollywood, on making movies with an edge
BY Nikhil Taneja
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Books
The Carburettor

Rajesh Parameswaran talks about his reluctance to talk about his writing—and the lasting lessons of failing quickly with short stories
BY Devika Bakshi
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‘Dead Bastards’

Reading poetry and listening to the radio as the trial of Bradley Manning begins

BY Amitava Kumar
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Illness: Their Achilles Heel?

Maoists sneaking into Andhra Pradesh for medical treatment are falling into a police trap

BY Anil Budur Lulla
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The Gavaskar Dichotomy

An otherwise strident critic turns a blind eye to the ills of the BCCI

BY Akshay Sawai
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The Irony of a Name

Review website Mouthshut.com’s battle against being muzzled could strike a blow against online censorship

BY Suhit Kelkar
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She Also Made History

Chithralekha, a Dalit woman autorickshaw driver in Kerala, has become an unwitting symbol of resistance against caste hegemony in her state

BY Shahina KK
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‘We Are Not Wedded to Any Ideology’

Watch the editor of Open magazine in conversation with activist and leader of the Aam Aadmi Party Arvind Kejriwal

BY Manu Joseph
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The New IITian

How a changing India is re-engineering the DNA of its fabled nerd: a little too fast for some and much too slowly for others

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Nepotism
Remote Mindset

The Congress continues to spin the news in favour of the Gandhis, but why do TV networks let it?

BYSandeep Bhushan
Maoism
The Phantom Who Fell

The legend of Kishenji and what his death means to India’s Maoist movement

BYRahul Pandita
Quest
In Search of the Indian Hipster

What is it?

BYAastha Atray Banan,Ashish Sharma,Gunjeet Sra
Way of life
100lb Guerillas

Slightly built they may be, but you’d be a fool to take them lightly. Battle-hardened, the woman Maoists here are every bit as fierce as their male comrades.

BYIshan Tankha,Rahul Pandita
Profile
‘BCCI President’, ‘Srini Sir’, ‘Psychopath’

Understanding India’s most infamous cricket administrator, N Srinivasan

BYLhendup G Bhutia
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
Public Opinion
Don’t Negotiate with Naxals

Those advocating talks with the Naxals should read the Maoist constitution and check what kind of room there is to negotiate.

BYHartosh Singh Bal
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