BANGALORE BYTE SUGATA SRINIVASARAJU Creation Mythology All through history, Karnataka was only an imagined home of the Kannada-speaking people. It was a cultural construct and a poetic fancy with no specific political or geographical formation to back it up... Web | Jul 03, 2009
APPRECIATION Tyeb Mehta (1925-2009) A compilation of some of his more celebrated paintings.
O JERUSALEM SEEMA SIROHI Museum Of Intolerance Miracles do happen in the Holy Land and one might be happening right now -- ultra Orthodox Jews have joined hands with Muslim and leftist Israelis to save an old Muslim cemetery in the heart of central Jerusalem from becoming rubble under a new Jewish museum. Web | Jul 03, 2009
ICT IN INDIA NANDAN NILEKANI Single Citizen ID Getting rid of our phantoms: Much before his appointment as the head of the national ID card project, the Infosys co-founder elaborated on the benefits of such a scheme... Magazine | Dec 01, 2008
DEBATE CSSE Beyond Reservations While there seems to be some positive movement in the form of the proposed Equal Opportunity Commission Bill, following the recommendations of the Sachar Committee, these measures are too important to be passed in haste and without wider public debate. Web | Jul 01, 2009
MEMORIES MICHAEL JACKSON (Not) Growing Up With MJ To me Michael and his music were there when I was sad, when my parents fought, when growing up seemed like a pain (at some point I think I stopped trying!), mellowing with me, understanding me and never doubting or questioning me. RACHANA DEB Web | Jun 30, 2009
CONTROVERSY IIPM Makes Another Claim - Over To You Mr. Sibal IIPM claims to award MBA/BBA from University of Buckingham, and the University denies having any arrangement with IIPM as of date. The false claims continue. MAHESH SARMA
Outlook (Hindi)
ESSAY ARUNDHATI ROY Democracy's Failing Light Is democracy a hit with humans because it mirrors our myopia? Magazine | Jul 13, 2009
FOR THE RECORD 'The Magic Of The Human Spirit And Of A Nation's Passion' A victory for gay rights as Delhi HIgh Court holds: 'We declare that Section 377 IPC, insofar as it criminalises consensual sexual acts of adults in private, is violative of Articles 21, 14 and 15 of the Constitution' S.MURALIDHAR, J Web | Jul 02, 2009
MUMBAI MUSINGS SMRUTI KOPPIKAR The Link To Nowhere In the middle of celebrations over the 5.6 kilometre new stretch of concrete road, over the sea linking Bandra and Worli, it is hard to sound rational, let alone sceptical. But it is difficult to miss some obvious questions... Web | Jul 02, 2009
OPINION NANDAN NILEKANI Building A Green Economy The big question for India here is how it can reconcile its own goals with the aim of building an effective global climate deal. Clearly, the need is to combine a tough climate stand with a low-carbon approach that doesn't have to be anti-development. Web | Jul 02, 2009
VIEW FROM ISRAEL URI AVNERY Between Tel Aviv And Tehran Hundreds of thousands demonstrated in Teheran. Can anyone imagine this in Cairo? A thousand in Amman? In Saudi Arabia, there are never protests against election results -- simply because there are no elections. In Iran, however, there are elections, and how! Web | Jul 01, 2009
DOSSIER The Ayodhya Files With the Liberhan commission report to be tabled in Parilament in the budget session, the case surrounding the Babri demolition is back in focus. A collection of articles from the archives
IRAN SHUDDHABRATA SENGUPTA Inquilab Zindabad? While the government of India, mindful of its cynical interests, is silent, let us remember the origin of these words... Web | Jun 30, 2009
VIEW FROM UK GEORGE MONBIOT Dealing With Drug Users The UN's proposal for decriminalisation is senseless and destructive. We should help addicts, but lock up the casual users of cocaine
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MUMBAI 26/11 B. RAMAN BBC's Unlikely Story Did the TV coverage of the Mumbai attacks enable the LET's controlling officers in Pakistan to give precise instructions to the terrorists? Or was there a Mumbai-based sleeper cell of the LET that was communicating details of the police deployments and movements in and around the targeted areas? Web | Jun 29, 2009
OPINION DILIP HIRO The Classic Dilemma Until the June 12th election, post-Shah Iran seemed to indicate that Islam and democracy could work in harmony. The upheaval since then has demonstrated that when strains between the two concepts develop, it is democracy that gets short shrift. Web | Jun 29, 2009
DIPLOMACY: IFS Songbird And Stage Nirupama Rao takes over as foreign secretary PRANAY SHARMA Magazine | Jul 13, 2009
EXCLUSIVE POLICY RIGHT-TO-FOOD The Hungry Tide The ambitious Food Security Bill may look at being more inclusive PRAGYA SINGH Magazine | Jul 13, 2009
OPINION NEELABH MISHRA They Chewed Up The Hills In Himachal, climate change is precipitously here-and-now Magazine | Jul 13, 2009
EDUCATION: REFORMS Pretty Good At Division The HRD minister's approach to reform generates more scepticism than consent ANURADHA RAMAN Magazine | Jul 13, 2009
POLL SUTRA The Secret Diary Of A.B. Bardhan Hindsight is something that comrade Prakash (Karat) does not believe in. But I know that to look ahead I have to look back. AJITH PILLAI Magazine | Jul 13, 2009
PORTRAIT MICHAEL JACKSON The Seven Ages Of MJ Our greatest entertainer embodied every dark speck of our time SHEFALEE VASUDEV Magazine | Jul 13, 2009
10 QUESTIONS SAINA NEHWAL Saina Nehwal The ace shuttler on her maiden Super Series title at the Indonesian Open recently VENUGOPAL PILLAI Magazine | Jul 13, 2009
MOVIE REVIEW New York Shows the warped side of American politics and then eulogises it effusively, but despite raising many relevant issues, it falters by not taking a stand. NAMRATA JOSHI Magazine | Jul 13, 2009
Glitterati The page 3 people, the chatterati and those in the news for being in the news.
GOSSIP Polscape Random notes, gossip, bitching, angles, conspiracy theories, spoofs, essential fundas that you've gotta know.
LAST PAGE Delhi Diary The Congress ministers in the UPA seem to be running for a 100-metre dash, or shall I say, a 100-day dash. Kapil Sibal, Veerappa Moily, Jairam Ramesh, Kamal Nath, Prithviraj Chavan are moving at a frenetic pace... VINOD MEHTA
Romance Aaj Kal Surprisingly, it's recent movies that rule all the rankings NAMRATA JOSHI Magazine | Jul 13, 2009
DEVDAS SUDHIR MISHRA Isn't That A Different Ourselves? As long as we claim Paro's wounds as our own, Devdas's sacrifice shall hold its allure Magazine | Jul 13, 2009
WORDS + MUSIC PRASOON JOSHI Mere Saamne Wali Khidki Down the years, the spectrum of film song has reflected how India looks at love & longing Magazine | Jul 13, 2009
TAMIL LOVERS SUDHA G. TILAK Pirates Of The Arabian You can't keep the Tamil macho hero down for long. But lover boys bloom in between. Magazine | Jul 13, 2009
IN BENGAL MITA CHATTERJEE Lamps, Shades Uttam-Suchitra's incandescence lit up Bengali cinema. It endures still. Magazine | Jul 13, 2009
LOVE GAME PAROMITA VOHRA Love, See Us Into A Hall Of Mirrors On screen, as in life, the many-splendoured thing makes us want to identify with the other Magazine | Jul 13, 2009
