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Tuesday, 18 June 2013

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The hilarious case of Avatar Tulsi

The Ramayana essay that Delhi University banned

The man who survived 42 hours trapped in a lift

The hypocrisy of Indian fashion designers

The fraud of Vedic maths

The making of Baba Ramdev

The mystery of the leopard that was not

under Hartosh Singh Bal

Kejriwal’s Doomed War

And how he could still end up winning

25 Oct 2012 | BY Hartosh Singh Bal

Staring into a Revenue Blackhole

Finance minister P Chidambaram has inherited a Customs and Excise mess, courtesy controversial CBEC officials

30 Sep 2012 | BY Hartosh Singh Bal

The Rebirth of a Prime Minister

The reform announcements that have given Manmohan Singh and the Congress another lifeline are driven primarily by cold electoral logic

27 Sep 2012 | BY Hartosh Singh Bal

A War With No End

Prakash Jha’s forthcoming film, Chakravyuh, is set in the Naxal minefields. In a conversation with historian Shruti Kapila and Hartosh Singh Bal at the India Cambridge Summit, he speaks of the senselessness of India’s war on Maoists

21 Sep 2012

Ruin of the Congress

As two recent books tell us, India’s most charismatic leader, Indira Gandhi, has left a debilitating effect on the party.

21 Sep 2012 | BY Hartosh Singh Bal

Look Who’s Talking

Since when did we in India care about journalistic ethics?

14 Sep 2012 | BY Hartosh Singh Bal

The RAW Files

A former intelligence officer writes a gripping and thinly disguised fictional account of the case of Rabinder Singh, an Indian spy who went rogue and escaped to the US

31 Aug 2012 | BY Hartosh Singh Bal

Modi’s Teflon Is Wearing Off

The verdict against Mayaben Kodnani shows that Modi rewarded her for murder

30 Aug 2012 | BY Hartosh Singh Bal

The Truth about the Saraswati

Could the river system that sustained the Harappans be the same as this most sacred Rg Vedic river? Some new geological findings

23 Aug 2012 | BY Hartosh Singh Bal

Arundhati Roy’s Magic Journalism

The queen of hyperbole

10 Aug 2012 | BY Hartosh Singh Bal

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Peta’s Sexiest Man Alive

The story of how an arthritic village boy who was laughed at became a celebrity wrestler with a cause

Mihir Srivastava

In Search of the Indian Hipster

What is it?

Regression Multiplied By Two

Mallika Sherawat is right and Priyanka Chopra wrong about India

Madhavankutty Pillai

IN Features > International

‘Dead Bastards’

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

BY Amitava Kumar

IN Features > Business

Time to Regulate Multi-level Marketers

Amway India Chief Bill Pinckney’s arrest is an occasion to consider imposing rules on sales pyramids

BY Shailendra Tyagi

IN Features > Sports

The most recent instance of Gavaskar failing to address the inconvenient truths about Indian cricket was the belated, cursory statement he made about the recent IPL scandal. It was more than 500-words long, but said nothing—perhaps intentionally.

The Gavaskar Dichotomy

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

BY Akshay Sawai

IN Features > Art & Culture

A SERIES OF INTERRUPTIONS: A still from a video featuring Stormy. Cubitt offers the viewer nothing to distract from the reading and its erotic disruptions (Photo: CLAYTON CUBITT)

When Literature Turns Hysterical

A video project by American artist Clayton Cubitt explores the battle between mind and body, and the tension between art and sex

BY Sonali Kokra

IN Features > Living

Interest in ‘cancer genes’ has shot up, especially after Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie’s double mastectomy, which she had got done after a genetic test pinpointed a ‘faulty’ BRCA-1

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

BY Aanchal Bansal

Factionalism
Modi’s BJP

And how an injured Advani still has a game in play

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HEGEMONY
‘Dead Bastards’

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

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True Life
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

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NEGLECT
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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DEBILITY
Illness: Their Achilles Heel?

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

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Trail
Anatomy of a Scandal

How the police got a fix on the spot-fixing scam. And what’s happening in their interrogation rooms right now

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Diagnosis
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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Opinion
The Gavaskar Dichotomy

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

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Interview
‘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

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GAG
The Irony of a Name

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

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Transition
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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