Table of Contents

21-27 Feb, 2012 | Vol 04 | Issue 08
The future of technology
Social Web ~ Your Privacy as Bargaining Chip • The Education of the Idiot Box • Spyware is Everywhere • What the Eye Can’t See. Yet • The App Avalanche • Good for the Sole • The Fortitude of the Good Ol’ book • The Alaap With Technology
SEE SMALL WORLD

Team Anna has questioned the veracity of ‘BJP’s Team B’, a report published in Open’s issue of 20 February. Here is our reply

The UPA’s law ministers get a big ‘F’ in fixing the country’s broken judicial system

India is gung-ho about public-private partnerships, but neither the Centre nor private sector is having it easy raising funds.

Greg Marinovich, one of only two still alive from the Bang Bang Club of photographers, bares what it was like in those brutal days

Our best guesses for the Academy awards this year

It’s coming our way. But it’s not entirely beyond our control. So where will we take our apps? And where will they take us?

The Colour Purple • How Berlin was Captured • Indecent Proposal

On our schizoid relationship with the social web

Books

Modern crime fiction seems to have caught up with the perversity of real-life violence. Gone are the days when the little grey cells were all that was important to a racy read

Cinema

A goodlooking couple with zero chemistry in a goodlooking film

Science

A study shows those who continue practising tasks after mastering them exert less energy to achieve more

Gadgets

The ultimate diver’s watch. It works snugly with a wet suit and goes well with a dinner jacket too