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A Chinese Takeaway in Madhya Pradesh; Hooda’s Dalit Sympathy Overdrive; Who’ll Come to Beseiged Manipur’s Aid? Shooting the Messenger
Warren Buffett’s Fall From Grace
His golden rule is ‘Never lose money’. He also said it takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. Has he finally ruined his own?
The Persistence of Caste
From Buddha to Ambedkar, some of our most outstanding minds have tried to fight caste. Why doesn’t it go away, and why are we so afraid to take note of it?
Summer Relief
At 40º C if you can’t handle the heat, it’s time to get out of the plains. But where to? We squinted at the globe, stared at the map and called the experts to come up with a summer travel menu of places that’ll re-sap your spirits. Read on for where to smell the wildflowers, listen to the stomp of wildebeest and how to jump off an aircraft so you can hurtle earthwards at 200 kmph.
Not Just a Poet
As Asia’s first Nobel laureate enters his 150th year, it is important to remember that Rabindranath Tagore was far, far more than only a poet. He was a painter, an educationist, a philosopher, a truly global visionary and a political activist of rare moral courage.
The Heart Money
A form of venture funding, which uses the profit motive to create social change, is slowly making its presence felt in India.
Letter to the Editor
Kobad Ghandy, one of the senior-most leaders of the CPI (Maoist), remembers his wife and comrade Anuradha Ghandy, the only woman in the Central Committee of the CPI (Maoists), who died in April 2008 of cerebral malaria.
The Men Who Feed and Fight India’s Maoists
The main accused charged for selling arms and ammunition to Maoists may have been working under protection of senior officers.
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