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07-13 Aug, 2012 | Vol 04 | Issue 32

Method in the Massacre

A week of madness in Assam

The state government now says that the region is under control and there have been no fresh incidents of violence. But as the elderly Zubaid Ali, who fled Kokrajhar for a relief camp in Dhubri, says, “There is no fresh violence because there is nobody left to direct it against.”

BY Rahul Pandita

SEE SMALL WORLD

Dark Nights (and Days)

A Centre powerless in every way can do nothing to stop states from overdrawing electricity

The Loneliness of Kejriwal

His differences with Anna are public, but he and his cohorts can gather no support on their own

BYDhirendra K. Jha

A Nest of Neros

Mass murder, burning trains, countrywide darkness and labour unrest, what comes next?

BYHartosh Singh Bal

When You Can Smell Fear in Your Opponents

How Vijender Singh and his compatriots from Bhiwani came to earn our faith—and fear

BYShamya Dasgupta

Dread and Belonging in Kerala’s Party Villages

The state’s Kannur district is riddled with villages that are dominated by a single political party. A closer look at this peculiar phenomenon

The Nonsense of No-Go Zones

Why the Supreme Court’s ban on tourists in core areas of tiger reserves is bad news for the species

BYMihir Srivastava

The Culture of Queuing

From an old index of scarcity to a new form of street revelry, a look at where the line is going

BYVijai Maheshwari

Curators of Cool

The girls behind Brown Paper Bag, a lifestyle portal that Mumbai’s—and now even Delhi’s—swish set swears by

BYAastha Atray Banan

The Scent of a Man

…and the secret of sniffing out Mr Right

Over to Chidambaram

Chidambaram is back at the Finance Ministry but with less fiscal space to manoeuvre

BYShailendra Tyagi

Sleepless on Facebook

The nocturnal gathering of insomniacs on a social networking site

Evening of Newcomers

Evening of Newcomers • Calling a Truce • The Comeback Distraction

BYRajeev Masand

‘Beijing was hard. I’m glad I can forget it now’

In conversation with Gagan Narang, Stanislav Lapidus and Michael Nobbs

BYBoria Majumdar

‘No regrets about interviewing Modi’

Siddiqui on how the interview came about, what was said, and what he reads between the lines

BYShahid Siddiqui

Books

And Then There was One

At last, there is someone to satisfy an Agatha Christie aficionado’s longing for old school whodunits—Japanese author Keigo Higashino

BYAastha Atray Banan

Arts

Beyond The Scream

The Edvard Munch retrospective at the Tate Modern examines the career of an artist who gave the world its best known icon of horror

BYJanice Pariat

Science

All Sounds the Same, Only Louder

Pop music hits, say researchers, are losing diversity and turning noisier

Cinema

Kyaa Super Kool Hain Hum

This movie takes toilet humour from the bowl to the septic tank

Gadgets

Nikon D3200

Compact and loaded, this is among the best entry-level DSLRs

BYGagandeep Singh Sapra

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How a changing India is re-engineering the DNA of its fabled nerd: a little too fast for some and much too slowly for others

Sizzle After the Fizzle

Sizzle After the Fizzle • Up Close and Privileged • Jhappi Jilters All

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Remote Mindset

The Congress continues to spin the news in favour of the Gandhis, but why do TV networks let it?

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Peta’s Sexiest Man Alive

The story of how an arthritic village boy who was laughed at became a celebrity wrestler with a cause

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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

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‘BCCI President’, ‘Srini Sir’, ‘Psychopath’

Understanding India’s most infamous cricket administrator, N Srinivasan

Lhendup G Bhutia

most commented this month

Remote Mindset

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Sandeep Bhushan

Peta’s Sexiest Man Alive

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Factionalism
Modi’s BJP

And how an injured Advani still has a game in play

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HEGEMONY
‘Dead Bastards’

Reading poetry and listening to the radio as the trial of Bradley Manning begins

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GAG
The Irony of a Name

Review website Mouthshut.com’s battle against being muzzled could strike a blow against online censorship

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NEGLECT
A World Without Men

There are many settlements in Kerala’s Attappady tribal block that have only women, mostly widows with tragic lives. A close look at a peculiar imbalance

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DEBILITY
Illness: Their Achilles Heel?

Maoists sneaking into Andhra Pradesh for medical treatment are falling into a police trap

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True Life
She Also Made History

Chithralekha, a Dalit woman autorickshaw driver in Kerala, has become an unwitting symbol of resistance against caste hegemony in her state

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Diagnosis
The Fault, Dear Brutus, Lies in the Genes

Genetic testing for health risks holds plenty of promise in India, so long as enough people take to it

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Opinion
The Gavaskar Dichotomy

An otherwise strident critic turns a blind eye to the ills of the BCCI

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Interview
‘We Are Not Wedded to Any Ideology’

Watch the editor of Open magazine in conversation with activist and leader of the Aam Aadmi Party Arvind Kejriwal

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Secession
Meet the Freegans

Some of them make abandoned buildings their home. A few scavenge for food. Most of them talk eloquently about freedom. What they have in common is an ideal: of living moneyless lives

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Transition
The New IITian

How a changing India is re-engineering the DNA of its fabled nerd: a little too fast for some and much too slowly for others

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Fanaticism
Zombies United

Pirated feeds, Toyota commercials in Arabic, long distance calls to Dad. The challenges and joys of watching American sports in India

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