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Playing for a Nobel Peace Prize

How seriously should we take people who design digital games?

Communist Manifest Foes

As Maoists turn the heat on CPI cadres in Bastar, the latter find themselves in a double bind

Shale Gas in Deep Trouble

Current methods of shale gas extraction can pollute ground-water, say protestors in France

Warhorses Gone Wild

Unique to this part of the world, these feral horses are a sight to remember. Especially once you know the secret of their lineage

Helpless in Chitapur

An Israeli journalist wonders if there is any difference at all between how Israel treats Palestinians and how India treats its poor

The Origins of Ramdev

The making of Ramdev is inevitably the story of the intriguing world of spiritual TV

Where the Forests Have No Trees

Of the total 60,000 claims filed under the Forest Rights Act in Assam, nearly 30,000 came from a single district. Little wonder, then, that the administration controls less than a third of Sonitpur’s forests. While no political party minds legalising this mass encroachment in the Bodo heartland, the fate of the wilderness hangs by a 2009 High Court order.

The Future of Meat

Coming soon: genetically engineered meat in a supermarket near you

Condom Madam

How one sex worker reformed a brothel in Sangli by counting condoms collected in a bucket

That Film of Memory

...and what I learnt of life, reporting from Bastar and other Maoist areas

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