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  • Arts & Letters
    Reading in Sin
    Reading in Sin

    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

    BY Arpita Das
    The Guru Ambedkar

    BR Ambedkar chose a religion rather than a political ideology to empower  India’s Untouchables for a reason

    BY Ananya Vajpeyi
    The Gandhi Style Statements

    Namrata Zakaria on the First Family’s enviable wardrobe, and why their sartorial sense matters so much

    BY Namrata Zakaria
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    True Life
    The Man Who Aced CAT Six Times
    The Man Who Aced CAT Six Times

    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

    BY Patrick D’Souza
    The Man Who Wanted to Wed 500 Times

    Holder of world records for the most flags tattooed on his body, most straws stuffed in his mouth and longest non-stop scooter journey ever, Guinness Rishi explains his need to break and set new records

    BY Guinness Rishi
    Moby Dick’s Avenger

    Once, he sailed on ships that carted oil and timber around the world; today, Siddharth Chakravarty prowls the high seas in search of illegal whaling ships to thwart

    BY Siddharth Chakravarty
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  • Voices
    Aimee Ginsburg
    Have to Watch My Words

    Ahmad Kazmi, the media and a message that might have gone horribly wrong

    Rajeev Masand
    Bollywood’s Die Hard

    Bollywood’s Die Hard • Suddenly, Ranbir • The Baby Fat with the Bathtub

    MG Vaidya
    The BJP Has Forgotten Its Very Basis

    It has neglected Hindutva and its connection with the uniqueness of this ancient nation

    Manu Joseph
    Shoaib Akhtar, Passing Through

    The world according to a muscular man

    Anupama Chopra
    The League of Extraordinary Critics

    These reviewers have become my favourite companions

    Hartosh Singh Bal
    Once Again, the Same Nonsense

    How can the abduction of a Collector and an MLA be an argument for talking peace with Maoists?

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  • International
    A Coup Made in India?
    A Coup Made in India?

    Senior figures in the ousted Maldives government raise questions about the role of the Indian High Commissioner

    BY Mihir Srivastava
    Resizing Osama bin Laden
    BY Abhijnan Rej
    The Mind of a Self-Immolator
    BY Lhendup G Bhutia
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    Nation
    The Sheila Shield
    The Sheila Shield

    Delhi’s CM seems to be doing her utmost to protect state officials from the CBI probe

    BY Mihir Srivastava
    The Rot Has Been Revealed
    BY Haima Deshpande
    The Red Heat Is On
    BY Rahul Pandita
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    Business
    The Complicated Case of Choked Gas
    The Complicated Case of Choked Gas

    It’s Reliance versus the Centre over KG Basin gas all over again, but maybe it ultimately comes down to this: whose gas is it anyway?

    BY Shailendra Tyagi
    When Shareholders Revolt
    BY Shailendra Tyagi
    Making Mutual Music
    BY Shailendra Tyagi
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    Sports
    Speed Thrills
    Speed Thrills

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

    BY Aanchal Bansal
    The Legend of Barça
    BY Sopan Joshi
    They Do Pack a Punch
    BY Boria Majumdar
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    Art & Culture
    Not the Final Whistle Yet
    Not the Final Whistle Yet

    Subhash Ghai wants his show to go on. Never mind his surfeit of flops as a filmmaker and the iffiness of his film school’s survival

    BY Shaikh Ayaz
    The Ta-Dhin-Dhin-Ta Dude
    BY Aastha Atray Banan
    Not a Happy Ending
    BY Michael Edison Hayden
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    Living
    Seed Capital
    Seed Capital

    Meet India’s sperm donors

    BY Lhendup G Bhutia
    Have a Heart
    BY Aanchal Bansal
    Sits, Shoots and Leaves
    BY Lhendup G Bhutia
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  • Photo/Graphic
    Travels through Song
    Travels through Song

    Listening was the real journey for the 200-odd people who travelled together from one village to another on the Kabir yatra

    BY Vipul Rikhi, Mansi Thapliyal
    Almost Famous
    BY Raul Irani
    Down in UP
    BY Ishan Tankha, Raul Irani, Ruhani Kaur
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    Video
    The Madhu Koda Interview (Part 3)
    The Madhu Koda Interview (Part 3)

    “Why am in jail? Where is the evidence against me?”

    BY VK Shashikumar
    The Madhu Koda Interview (Part 2)
    BY VK Shashikumar
    The Madhu Koda Interview (Part 1)
    BY VK Shashikumar
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    Documentaries
    Portraits of Belonging: Sagira Begum
    Portraits of Belonging: Sagira Begum

    An Old Delhi neighbourhood full of highly skilled craftspeople struggles to survive, to keep some fragment of its poetry in a city whose priorities are far more prosaic.

    BY Sameera Jain
    Sabad Nirantar
    BY Rajula Shah
    Rabba Hun Kee Kariye
    BY Ajay Bhardwaj
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  • Arts
    Old New Delhi
    Old New Delhi

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

    BY Shruti Ravindran
    Don’t Call Him a ‘Master’ Artist
    BY Madhavankutty Pillai
    Not Just Pretty Pictures
    BY Aanchal Bansal
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    Books
    Mama Em’s Cope Book
    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

    BY Kalpish Ratna
    The Constant Writer
    BY Vaibhav Vats
    Global Capital Rules, Okay?
    BY Aresh Shirali
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    Cinema
    Bollywood’s Nasa Guy
    Bollywood’s Nasa Guy

    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

    BY Sohini Chattopadhyay
    The Artiste Who Will Never be a Star
    BY Shaikh Ayaz
    Hugo
    BY Shaikh Ayaz
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    Gadgets
    Nikon Coolpix 510
    Nikon Coolpix 510

    A fully loaded point-and-shoot that might try your patience

    BY Gagandeep Singh Sapra
    B&O Play Beolit 12
    BY Gagandeep Singh Sapra
    Blackberry 9920
    BY Gagandeep Singh Sapra
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    Science
    Assisted Reproduction: the Risks
    Assisted Reproduction: the Risks

    A study finds that assisted reproduction raises the possibility of birth defects, but these vary with the methods used

    Why Are Most People Right-handed?
    Still No Light on Dark Matter
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  • Real India
    The Akhilesh Mango
    The Akhilesh Mango

    Haji Kaleemullah Khan creates hybrid fruits and gives them names of celebrities

    BY Aanchal Bansal
    Cracking It
    BY Aastha Atray Banan
    The Right to Receive Bribes
    BY Anil Budur Lulla
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    Confessions
    Confessions of a Children’s Dentist
    Confessions of a Children’s Dentist

    “The trick is to understand that the child is neither a dummy nor a miniature adult. We have to understand the cause of fear”

    Confessions of a Gamer
    Confessions of a Paanwala
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    Hurried Man's Guide
    Hollywood’s Top Five
    Hollywood’s Top Five

    The Avengers picked up $200.3 million at theatres in the US and Canada, according to an estimate by Disney

    Rafael Nadal’s Clay Reign
    Jim Yong Kim
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    15-21 May, 2012
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    Seed Capital
    Seed Capital
    Meet the Indian sperm donor
    BY Lhendup G Bhutia
    08-14 May, 2012
    table of contents
    A Coup Made in India?
    01-07 May, 2012
    table of contents
    Where to Go This Summer
    24-30 Apr, 2012
    table of contents
    Sorry, Kashmir Is Happy
    17-23 Apr, 2012
    table of contents
    Pakistan’s Hindi Film Spoofs
    10-16 Apr, 2012
    table of contents
    Inside the World of Arms Dealers
    03-09 Apr, 2012
    table of contents
    Big, Dumb, Funny, Indian Ideas
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  • small world
    The Day of the Ganges Dolphin
    The Day of the Ganges Dolphin

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

    BY Shruti Ravindran
    Why Mahe matters to Elysée Palace
    BY Shahina KK
    The Way the Biscuit Crumbles
    BY Haima Deshpande
    headstart
    Doped out and Socially Dazed
    Doped out and Socially Dazed

    Drug abuse affects memory, reasoning and inhibition

    The How of ‘Positive Thinking’
    Rhythm and Reward
    people on our mind
    Messi in Kolkata
    Messi in Kolkata

    It’s official, Messi’s turning up in India.

    BY Akshay Sawai
    Bowled Monk
    BY Akshay Sawai
    Pele’s Communication Dysfuction
    BY Akshay Sawai
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    Bubble Wrap  |  Shubhangi Swarup
    Culture Shock at Mumbai filmfest
    Let’s face it. The only relationship Mumbai has with cinema is Bollywood.
    Crossbat  |  Akshay Sawai
    The rust is not yet history
    When a match is dull, it is not just the spectators who get bored. You also see it in the body language of the fielders.
    Allegedly  |  Madhavankutty Pillai
    Lullaby
    ...of a new father in Parliament
  • Open Spaces
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The birth of a male contraceptive
And God Made Nihari
A hurried man's guide to trans fats in India
Confessions of a former railway board member
How the banana beats CSK’s official fruit
Indian experiments with fasting

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Bollywood’s Die Hard

Bollywood’s Die Hard • Suddenly, Ranbir • The Baby Fat with the Bathtub

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12 May 12 | BY Rajeev Masand
Fat Boy Slim

Fat Boy Slim • Succumbing to Sajid • The Horror of Common Names

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5 May 12 | BY Rajeev Lochan
Once Again, the Same Nonsense

How can the abduction of a Collector and an MLA be an argument for talking peace with Maoists?

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28 April 12 | BY Hartosh Singh Bal
Headmaster Bhansali

Headmaster Bhansali • Ranveer on a Leash • The Older, the Better

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28 April 12 | BY Rajeev Masand
The BJP Has Forgotten Its Very Basis

It has neglected Hindutva and its connection with the uniqueness of this ancient nation

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21 April 12 | BY MG Vaidya
Two-in-One Cinema

Two-in-One Cinema • This Is  Preity’s Big Secret • The Miser and the Camera

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21 April 12 | BY Rajeev Masand
Why Is Narendrabhai Afraid of the Indian Media?

It is because he knows his performance cannot withstand scrutiny by the informed

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14 April 12 | BY Hartosh Singh Bal
Snubfest

Snubfest • Not a Nice Girl to Shoot • Daggers Where They’re Due

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14 April 12 | BY Rajeev Masand
Something Is Rotten in Punjab

The politics of patronage practised by the Akali Dal has corrupted an entire state

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7 April 12 | BY Hartosh Singh Bal
Wedding Season Once Again

Wedding Season Once Again • The Jinxed Film • He Calls This a Party Trick

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7 April 12 | BY Rajeev Masand
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The Dibakarian Way of Life

Director Dibakar Banerjee on the politics of his films, his commitment to cinema as an art form and why he can’t bear to watch his own films

Shaikh Ayaz
Aishwarya Red-Faced

Ash Red-Faced * Jab They Fought * Bollywood’s Uncle Scrooge

Rajeev Masand
Fat Boy Slim

Fat Boy Slim • Succumbing to Sajid • The Horror of Common Names

Rajeev Lochan

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A Coup Made in India?

Senior figures in the ousted Maldives government raise questions about the role of the Indian High Commissioner

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Mihir Srivastava
Fat Boy Slim

Fat Boy Slim • Succumbing to Sajid • The Horror of Common Names

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Rajeev Lochan
The Artiste Who Will Never be a Star

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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Sorry, Kashmir Is Happy

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

Manu Joseph
Worse than a Daughter’s Death

A different view of the Aarushi murder case

Patrick French
Snubfest

Snubfest • Not a Nice Girl to Shoot • Daggers Where They’re Due

Rajeev Masand

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Sorry, Kashmir Is Happy

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

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Manu Joseph
Headmaster Bhansali

Headmaster Bhansali • Ranveer on a Leash • The Older, the Better

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Rajeev Masand
A Coup Made in India?

Senior figures in the ousted Maldives government raise questions about the role of the Indian High Commissioner

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  • UPWARD MOTILITY
    Seed Capital

    Meet India’s sperm donors

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  • Legislation
    Parliament: Six Decades of Decline

    India’s Parliament turns 60

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  • Profile
    The Artiste Who Will Never be a Star

    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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  • WHODUNIT
    The Aarushi Case Files

    Questions that continue to confound us

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  • Rebellion
    The Oust Mayawati Campaign

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

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  • Bollywood’s Nasa Guy

    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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  • The Bereft
    The Outcastes of a Liberated Zone

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

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  • True Life
    The Man Who Aced CAT Six Times

    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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  • Reality Bites
    When a Lie Scrapes the Sky

    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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  • BRUTALITY
    The Day ‘Caman-do’ Took Away a Little Girl

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

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  • Life & Letters
    Reading in Sin

    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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  • Open Circuit
    Speed Thrills

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

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