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Table of Contents

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17-23 Apr, 2012 | Vol 04 | Issue 16
Unmade in Pakistan
Parodies of Indian blockbusters are a rage across the border
All of Salman Khan’s recent releases, including Wanted, Dabangg and Bodyguard, have found favour among Pakistani audiences. The spoofs, starring Sikandar Sanam as always, an old hand at theatre and a pioneer of parody, have performed equally well.
BY Shaikh Ayaz

...and much more

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The Red Abduction Factory

Abductions have become the standard operating procedure of Naxal-Maoist insurgents, even as the Government flounders to formulate its own

BYMihir Srivastava
Politburo Puzzle

Why VS Achuthanandan was left out of the CPM’s apex body

BYShahina KK
Why Is Narendrabhai Afraid of the Indian Media?

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

BYHartosh Singh Bal
Editor-in-Chief of Bihar

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

BYDhirendra K Jha
Vilasrao’s Dead End

Former chief minister of Maharashtra Vilasrao Deshmukh now has a Supreme Court censure and CAG report to live down. But will this finally spell the end of his political run?

BYHaima Deshpande
How Cricket Was Sold in India

...or a short history of the BCCI’s rise to riches

BYBoria Majumdar
The Ta-Dhin-Dhin-Ta Dude

Karsh Kale’s appeal as a musician can be attributed to a fusion of tabla skills and charming looks

BYAastha Atray Banan
The Twain Do Not Meat

Tandoori versus asado. To visiting Argentinean polo players, taken out for lunch by Open, it’s a no-contest

BYLhendup G Bhutia
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

BYSiddharth Chakravarty
Keep Your Eyes on the Road...

A government panel is keen on yanking people off their mobikes and out of their cars, and stuffing them instead into buses and metro tubes

BYAresh Shirali
Not a Happy Ending

Liberty Cinema, one of Mumbai’s last surviving art deco classics, is struggling for survival

BYMichael Edison Hayden
Snubfest

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

BYRajeev Masand
‘The Mother of All Mistakes’

…says Vinod Mehta, Editorial Chairman, Outlook Group, of the story Indian Express ran on Army troop movements towards Delhi

BYHartosh Singh Bal

Books

A Spanking New Bestseller

This could have been a Mills & Boon novel, but for its sado-masochistic twist. So what is it about this cliché-ridden book that is driving women in hordes to read it?

BYRosalyn D’Mello

The Reader’s Writer

Tabish Khair on why he doesn’t write for critics, his dislike of the term ‘postcolonial’, and how journalism helped him overcome his dread of deadlines

BYJyotirmoy Talukdar

Arts

Don’t Call Him a ‘Master’ Artist

Akbar Padamsee, whose paintings are suddenly finding huge valuations in the art market, talks about why numbers matter, the process of art and an obscenity case with amusing moments

BYMadhavankutty Pillai

Gadgets

HP Z1

The world’s first workstation in an all-in-one format

BYGagandeep Singh Sapra

Cinema

Housefull 2

If you find this film funny, there is no hope for human beings, let alone reptiles

BYAjit Duara

Science

The Mystery of Moon’s Origin Resurfaces

A new study casts doubt on the theory that the moon was born of a collision between Earth and a Mars-sized object
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