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Monday, 20 May 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 Mihir Srivastava

Collateral Clean-Up

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

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9 May 2013 | BY Mihir Srivastava

From Anna Acolyte to Sheila’s Nemesis

The transformation of Arvind Kejriwal

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11 Apr 2013 | BY Mihir Srivastava

The Congress Bureau of Investigation

Big stick politics. Will it ever end?

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27 Mar 2013 | BY Mihir Srivastava

‘Due Diligence Goes for a Toss’

An encounter with Aniruddha Bahal, editor of CobraPost, on Operation Red Spider and sting operations in general losing their sting

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23 Mar 2013 | BY Mihir Srivastava

Rapists at Risk

Surviving jail is hard for the poor. It is harder still for the poor behind bars for sexual offences

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13 Mar 2013 | BY Mihir Srivastava

Spot the Killer

How leopards are hunted as ‘maneaters’ with appalling ease in Uttarakhand

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22 Feb 2013 | BY Mihir Srivastava

The Question of Reasonable Doubt

The guilt of Afzal Guru was not as evident as the State would have you think. And his dubious execution may not be the last such case

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14 Feb 2013 | BY Mihir Srivastava

How Big Business Gets Its Way

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

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16 Dec 2012 | BY Mihir Srivastava

Catch a Tiger by Its Tale

Of Naresh and other famous Indian striped cats

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6 Dec 2012 | BY Mihir Srivastava

Geelani’s Litany

On death row before he was let off, he sees a mockery of justice in capital punishment

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30 Nov 2012 | BY Mihir Srivastava

most popular this week

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

Hartosh Singh Bal

Collateral Clean-Up

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

Mihir Srivastava

Let’s Not Ask Her Screen Age

Let’s Not Ask Her Screen Age • Tears of Luck • To Act or Not To Act

Rajeev Masand

most commented this week

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

24

Hartosh Singh Bal

Collateral Clean-Up

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

9

Mihir Srivastava

Let’s Not Ask Her Screen Age

Let’s Not Ask Her Screen Age • Tears of Luck • To Act or Not To Act

5

Rajeev Masand

most popular this month

Rape at Home

The trial of a French Consulate employee, accused of raping his minor daughter, has begun in Bangalore. His wife Suja Jones speaks to Open

Aimee Ginsburg

Waiting for Deliverance

What families in Haryana will do to have a son. A witness’ account

Ruhani Kaur

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

Hartosh Singh Bal

most commented this month

Rape at Home

The trial of a French Consulate employee, accused of raping his minor daughter, has begun in Bangalore. His wife Suja Jones speaks to Open

154

Aimee Ginsburg

The Man Who is Afraid of a Skullcap

Two books on Narendra Modi establish why it is silly to hope that the bigot will ever be any less bigoted

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Hartosh Singh Bal

Waiting for Deliverance

What families in Haryana will do to have a son. A witness’ account

28

Ruhani Kaur

Public Opinion
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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On the Contrary
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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ARM’S LENGTH
That Fizzling Sound

As cola drinks are shunned by health junkies

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THROWAWAY
The Bungle Jumble Party

God’s gift to the Congress

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RELOAD
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

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Doosra
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

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HAZARD
Poison in Paradise

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

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True Life
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

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WHISTLE BLOW
Collateral Clean-Up

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

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COOL-OFF
Inside Scoop

The joys of artisanal ice-cream

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Outrage
Case No. 1

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

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Divine
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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