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Nobody Hits a Lady

The national outrage over Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s handling of satire is plain naiveté. Didi knows better than to ignore such timeless instruments of destruction, particularly when she is sure to get away with her counter-offensive

Planchette: A Dying Curiosity

An investigation of the disappearance of visiting ghosts

Sorry, Kashmir Is Happy

Why is it obscene to accept that a historically wounded people are ready to move on?

The Twain Do Not Meat

Tandoori versus asado. To visiting Argentinean polo players, taken out for lunch by Open, it’s a no-contest

Vilasrao’s Dead End

Former chief minister of Maharashtra Vilasrao Deshmukh now has a Supreme Court censure and CAG report to live down. But will this finally spell the end of his political run?

Editor-in-Chief of Bihar

How an image-fixated chief minister has bent the state’s media to his will

Politburo Puzzle

Why VS Achuthanandan was left out of the CPM’s apex body

The Red Abduction Factory

Abductions have become the standard operating procedure of Naxal-Maoist insurgents, even as the Government flounders to formulate its own

Keep Your Eyes on the Road…

A government panel is keen on yanking people off their mobikes and out of their cars, and stuffing them instead into buses and metro tubes

Confusion at the Pump

Oil companies have asked the Government to re-regulate petrol prices so that it picks up half the tab for its populism

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