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Table of Contents

15-21 May, 2012 | Vol V04 | Issue
Meet the Indian sperm donor
For all the earnest talk of the Vicky Donor’s intention to cast light on an industry cloaked in secrecy and ridden with stigma, its portrayal of the sperm donation business is but a caricature. The industry does exist, but there are no wads of cash being dispensed, donors don’t hang out at Costa Coffee outlets, and they certainly don’t earn enough to buy cars.
SEE SMALL WORLD

…has passed its point of no-return with the recent battle cry sounded at a BSP rebel conclave

In Abhujmaad, the choice Maoists offer is stark: confinement or exile

It’s Reliance versus the Centre over KG Basin gas all over again, but maybe it ultimately comes down to this: whose gas is it anyway?

In Manipur, the police and Assam Rifles arrested an 11-year-old to pressure her parents, suspected separatists, to surrender

…but fills motorists with feelings ranging from awe to envy as they vroom down India’s first Formula 1 racetrack

The founder of Mumbai’s Quoin Academy has aced the Common Admission Test six times in as many years. But he neither prepares for these tests nor wants to join a B-school

Bollywood’s Die Hard • Suddenly, Ranbir • The Baby Fat with the Bathtub

India’s Parliament turns 60

Questions that continue to confound us

Arts

A new photography show features the capital’s Modernist landmarks and the architects who gave them to us

Books

In literature focused on insanity, the gaze seems to have shifted from the insane. The patient is no longer the victim; that status now belongs to the caregiver

Science

A study finds that assisted reproduction raises the possibility of birth defects, but these vary with the methods used

Gadgets

A fully loaded point-and-shoot that might try your patience

Cinema

An anomaly in Scorsese’s oeuvre of mean dystopias, this is his dreamlike tribute to cinema