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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
The Man Who Knows Too Much
He is accused of having abducted and killed lawyer Jaleel Andrabi in Srinagar in 1996. He has also been named for the murder of at least a dozen other men. He fled the country, and was back in the news after his wife reported him for domestic violence in California in February this year. A court has ordered the Ministry of External Affairs to ensure his extradition, but no action is being taken. Speaking to Open, the Major says if his extradition is actually initiated, he will never be allowed to return alive, he knows too much and he will not keep quiet
The Will of the Trust
Sathya Sai Baba wrote in his own hand that Satyajit, his caregiver, be included in the Central Trust. But the trust members are unwilling to
How to Bewitch a Cannes Jury
While it could get a few Indians frothy at the wrong end, it’s pretty obvious why the jury at Cannes loves Gillette’s campaign.
‘We are lucky not to have seen a dirty bomb’
Peace Nobel laureate ElBaradei on the dangers and inequities of the nuclear world. And why he admires Manmohan Singh so much.
Left Unity Makes Sense
The CPM and CPI need to leave doctrines aside and face practical realities
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