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The hilarious case of Avatar Tulsi

The Ramayana essay that Delhi University banned

The man who survived 42 hours trapped in a lift

The hypocrisy of Indian fashion designers

The fraud of Vedic maths

The making of Baba Ramdev

The mystery of the leopard that was not

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Remote Mindset

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In Search of the Indian Hipster

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POLITICS
Dilli Door Ast

Nitish’s exit from the NDA forces Modi to shy away from Ayodhya and exposes him to a dilemma that had once dogged Advani

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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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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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Factionalism
Modi’s BJP

And how an injured Advani still has a game in play

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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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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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On the Contrary
The Outsiders

If migrants are responsible for crimes in India’s cities, why are they always from the labour class?

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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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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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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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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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Premarital Sex
Letters to My Unwitting Spouses

Remember me?

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02-06 Jan, 2013 VOL 05 \| ISSUE 01 TABLE OF CONTENTS	26 Dec, 2012-01 Jan, 2013 VOL 04 \| ISSUE 52 TABLE OF CONTENTS	19-25 Dec, 2012 VOL 04 \| ISSUE 51 TABLE OF CONTENTS
12-18 Dec, 2012 VOL 04 \| ISSUE 30 TABLE OF CONTENTS	05-11 Dec, 2012 VOL 04 \| ISSUE 49 TABLE OF CONTENTS	28 Nov-04 Dec, 2012 VOL 04 \| ISSUE 48 TABLE OF CONTENTS