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India

Off with Them to Gadchiroli

The Maharashtra home minister’s latest bright idea is to punish oversexed policemen by posting them to this Maoist bastion

Half Measures in Guwahati

If the Bharatiya Janata Party is keen to regain power at the Centre, its latest party conclave showed that it wouldn’t like it to happen anytime soon

The Long Walk of a Single Mother

It is a reckless script gone so horribly wrong that a happy ending is unbelievable, if not impossible. A desperate mother seeking shelter far from her forest home in the fields to save her two cubs from murderous males; villagers living the terror of running into big cats amid standing crop they cannot afford to abandon; forest ground staff trying hard to avert conflict that could end all hope for the tiger family. This could well be a tragedy of circumstance but for the villains of the piece

Don’t Hindu Gurus Care about Corruption?

Just what do Shankaracharyas ponder in their muths, pray tell? If they have no moral contribution to make to society, what is the purpose of their existence?

No Pakistanis Please

In the face of a price crisis, all that Maharashtra’s parties seem to be doing is play politics with onions

Mirror of Silence

The recent plainspeak of a separatist leader suggests that truth is not a lost cause in Kashmir. Begin with the Valley’s pattern of graves

“Manmohan will be PM till 2014”

As the Congress feels the tremors of its own deeds, and the opposition asks for the PM’s head, party General Secretary Digvijay Singh speaks to Open

To Shoot a Messenger

Gujarat cops are on the hunt for a reporter who unearthed a mass grave

The Englishman Who Wants to Be Indian

Besotted with the idea of India, Daivid Hopkins even went on a hunger strike to secure Indian citizenship, but in vain

The Dream Life

A Kenyan diplomat squeezes a few frugal minutes out of his apparently hectic first secretary’s life to talk about his India sojourn and the laid-back life back home

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