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Table of Contents

05-11 June, 2012 | Vol 04 | Issue 23
A reality check on 10 fashionable save-the-earth ideas
10 popular panaceas that promise to revive our ecologically bankrupt planet. But can they ever deliver?
SEE SMALL WORLD

Will Jaganmohan Reddy’s arrest prove costly for the Congress?

At a time when it should have been making political capital of the UPA government’s woes, why is the BJP just tripping all over itself?

The bizarre ways in which the Internet is regulated in 21st century India

Gold prices had been rising on the expectation that the US Federal Reserve will print more money (and thus devalue the dollar)

A decorated war hero on love, bachelorhood and why Gen VK Singh is an honourable man

Pakistan’s new media is fearlessly taking on India bashers and those distorting history in ways that would have been seen as unpatriotic a few years ago

Only for the Missus • Cocktails with Karan • The Ghost Director

Books

Mamata Banerjee’s career has been bound to the automobile in strange ways. No wonder, then, the reader of her memoirs soon starts to play a game of car-spotting in the narrative

Arts

The Kalighat paintings were remarkable critiques of city life in early 19th century Calcutta, even when the subjects were ostensibly religious ones

Science

The time it took for life to bounce back after near total destruction was nine million years

Gadgets

A feature-filled compact megazoom that can do both quality videos and stills

Cinema

Josh Brolin is an inspired choice as the young Tommy Lee Jones. But the one-liners, the mainstay of the franchise, are too far apart