Features

Relook at Relocation

Jay Mazoomdaar

The environment ministry’s new draft guidelines have corrected some anomalies after Open’s investigation flagged key issues plaguing the relocation of 40,000 families from core tiger forests.

When Lawmakers Cower

Anil Budur Lulla

The last few elected representatives of Telangana need police cover after an ultimatum asks them to resign

Dummy Declarations

Dhirendra K Jha

The Telangana quitters of the Congress are merely using the party’s most overused attention-seeking device

General Benefits of the OBC Quota

MT Hany Babu

Percentages and other tricks that educational institutions use to hand over OBC seats to general category candidates

Air Waves of Another Kind

Alam Srinivas

While full-service airlines are in the red, low-cost carriers are in the black, and want to expand rapidly

Friendship, the Google Way

Rahul Bhatia

Google is playing the Pied Piper again with its new social networking platform, and its early converts are ready to bid adieu to Facebook. Not tearfully either

Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar is on death row. The charges levelled against him under TADA don’t stick, but President Pratibha Patil has rejected his mercy petition anyway. Mercifully, not everyone is keeping quiet about this

The Rs 1,00,000 crore Headache

Shahina KK

Let alone the Kerala government, no one knows how to deal with the treasure hoard found in the Sree Padmanabha temple

Mercurial Monsoon

Sopan Joshi

The famously capricious rains are reinforcing their reputation every year. Our planners need to take a hand in this Act of God

Where Queer is Cool

Pallavi Polanki

The Union health minister’s attitude to alternative sexuality is typical of a prejudiced majority. For queer students who suffer alienation or worse, relief comes in the form of a campus network