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Thursday, 23 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 Nitish Kumar

Nitish set to junk BJP for 2014 polls

The continuing rise of Narendra Modi in the BJP is hampering Nitish’s calculations in Bihar

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12 Dec 2012 | BY Dhirendra K Jha

Nitish Must Make a Choice

In supporting Ramdev’s movement, he could be making a mistake his Lohiaite predecessors did—of strengthening those they claimed to oppose

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16 Aug 2012 | BY Dhirendra K Jha

A Chief Minister Unmasked

The Bathani Tola massacre and Nitish Kumar’s apathy

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19 Jul 2012 | BY Rahul Pandita

Who Is Secular in This Country?

Those who make religious distinctions or those who do not?

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8 Jul 2012 | BY MG Vaidya

Editor-in-Chief of Bihar

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

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16 Apr 2012 | BY Dhirendra K Jha

After Nitish, the Flood

In a scandal typical of Bihar, money was sanctioned to repair over a thousand kilometres of zamindari embankments that did not exist. Nobody knows where the funds went

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2 Sep 2011 | BY Dhirendra K Jha

Political Lessons from Bihar

Nitish’s victory has plenty for parties across the political spectrum to ponder.

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25 Nov 2010 | BY Jatin Gandhi

No Modi, Agrees BJP

As the BJP surrenders to Nitish Kumar’s demand that Narendra Modi and Varun Gandhi be kept away from Bihar’s electoral arena, the implications.

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23 Jul 2010 | BY Dhirendra K. Jha

Ghost at the Banquet

Nitish Kumar’s outburst against an ad put out by his alliance partner in Bihar raises some questions. Is he play acting? Or is he about to sever ties with the BJP?

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18 Jun 2010 | BY Jatin Gandhi

Fragile Alliances, Changing Equations

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is all set to ditch the BJP after the Lok Sabha election

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8 Jun 2009 | BY Dhirendra K. Jha

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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

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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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Hartosh Singh Bal

Facebook to Bhaktbook

A Hindu devotional song calls out to Facebookers seen as sinners in need of redemption

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Sumana Roy

Those Dozing Porn Gods

It’s time they’re jolted awake by women who watch

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Sonali K

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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

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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

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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

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

25

Hartosh Singh Bal

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
Soft Brains, Hard On

What makes Mumbai’s municipal corporators demand a ban on scantily clad mannequins

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LEGACY
A Classic and its Afterlife

CLR James’ Beyond a Boundary on its 50th anniversary

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CARROT AND STICK
Citizens and Soldiers

The CRPF’s missteps threaten its efforts to woo tribal youth in Chhattisgarh

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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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ARM’S LENGTH
That Fizzling Sound

As cola drinks are shunned by health junkies

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MODERN TIMES
Infernal Lessons

Deciphering Dan Brown’s bestseller Inferno

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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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Media
Facebook to Bhaktbook

A Hindu devotional song calls out to Facebookers seen as sinners in need of redemption

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THROWAWAY
The Bungle Jumble Party

God’s gift to the Congress

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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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