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India

Up Against Godmen

Narendra Dabholkar’s assassination leaves a legislative battle unfinished with no one to take it up

Royal Absurdity

The former rulers of Lakshadweep want their kingdom back…or at least a modest raise in their royalty pension

Cry Rape

Are false accusations of rape common in India? Do the accused get a fair chance to defend themselves?

Living Among the Dead

The story of five orphans forced to stay in a graveyard after their parents died of AIDS

‘Military protocol was overtaken by civilian hysteria’

A decorated infantry commander who has served on the Line of Control, speaks to Open on the politics and hysteria over dead Indian soldiers

The Miseducation of Jharkhand’s Children

Imparted in a language they scarcely understand, the education seems designed to leave them unread

The Divide and the Design

The violence in Kishtwar bears the signs of an orchestrated plan to create a Kashmir Valley-like situation in this part of Jammu

Before the Bend in the River

Vignettes from the village of Parli in Palakkad, Kerala

‘I feel like a stranger in a strange city’

Khar, now an affluent enclave of the city, was once a small suburb, dotted with bungalows and modest buildings.

Pangs of a Patna Visit

Intimations of mortality

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