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Not Your Textbook Saint

Anna Hazare is a maverick with a past every bit as intriguing as his fast

A Spy in Pakistan

After 27 years in Pakistan prisons, Gopal Dass got a hero’s welcome when he returned last week to his village in Punjab. He was on a spying mission for India when he was arrested near Sialkot in 1984. Hard as they come, Gopal Dass tells his story.

The Men Who Dare Alagiri

Two officials show how it is possible to fight corruption within the system even if the Union minister for chemicals and fertilisers takes umbrage

That Day in 1986

How cricket died for me that day 25 years ago

Referendum via Cricket

The gentleman’s game in Kashmir is not quite the gentleman’s game anywhere else in the world. Not when India and Pakistan play

It’s All Personal

Few principles may be at stake when Jayalalithaa takes on the DMK in Tamil Nadu, but it is still a war out there

The CBI’s Odd Chargesheet

Why leave out Chidambaram’s initial advice to the PM in favour of a spectrum auction and his ministry’s shift in stance five months later?

Triumph and the Tamil Brahmin

It has never been an easy equation between the two. But the splendid World Cup victory of Dhoni’s men could well change that

What’s New

We’re two and happy for our place in your world. This special edition raises a toast to new arrivals in our lives

Making IPS Officers Work up a Sweat

It took 26/11 for the establishment to wake up to the needs of modern-day policing. The new training regimen gives hope

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