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No City for Young Women

Delhi as India’s ‘rape capital’ is a sensational label that rings true for reasons both heinous and heartless. One woman’s effort to understand why so little is ever done about it

The Sai Succession, Act II

Sathya Sai Baba claimed to be Shirdi Sai Baba’s reincarnation. The question of his own succession, though, will be hotly contested

Happy Hours at the Anna Carnival

The mela around the televised Jantar Mantar fast-unto-death had just about everything to keep our urban ‘revolutionaries’ occupied, including a food fest

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

Against the Odds

It is overall uncertainty—an unmeasureable—that tends to bedevil risk advisors the most

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

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