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A Very Hungry Tide
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Photos: Sandipan Chatterjee; Text: Debarshi Dasgupta
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The Sunderbans are the world’s largest mangrove forests. They are spread over 10,000 sq km in India and Bangladesh. On the Indian side, there are 100 islands; of them 54 are inhabitated. Sagar is the biggest (500 sq km) and it houses over 200,000 people. It is also home to a rich variety of flora and fauna such as the Royal Bengal Tiger and the Blue Fiddler crab.
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Other Photoessays
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Nature's Beauty, Man's Wrath
Debarshi Dasgupta visits Kandhamal and finds that the wounds from last year's riots are still fresh...
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Republic Day Parade
Mumbai 26/11, Noida encounter, extra tight security... but the 60th Republic Day celebrations were as colourful as ever, as the nation honoured its martyrs, saluted the brave and put up an impressive show of its military might and cultural diversity
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Bye Bye, Bush
Perhaps we misunderstimated Manmohan Singh. Perhaps he was thinking beyond the nuke deal and Indo-American relations when he told George W. Bush, "People of India deeply love you". Here are 29 off-the-cuff reasons MMS may have had in mind...
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Friends, Lend Me a Year
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." You can say that about most years. But 2008? Thank God, it's over...
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Protests 2008
Everybody, it seemed, was entitled to his own, personalised, custom-made notion of victimhood
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Oh, Just Changed My Mind
No, it was not a case of the best lacking all conviction... Er, yes, no... but then, well, isn't consistency the virtue of an ass?
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Dubious Distinctions
Our yearly Roll of Dishonour. Please tell us the ones we missed -- make up your own awards and send in your nominations.
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Glitterati 2008
Flashbulbs held the indelible moments on screen and beyond
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Thank God It's Over
It was not just terror but also floods, farmer suicides, stampedes, communal clashes, riots, and many other horrific cases that hogged the headlines
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Moral Police 2008
The usual suspects were out there -- airing their "hurt sensibilities" with abuse and threats, court injunctions, chappals, black paint and fatwas, smashing down glass panes for TV cameras, burning down buses...
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