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India This Week

arindam

Indian citizenship for Sri Lankan refugees; handshake and a boot in West Bengal; Bihar’s bank ban; Kashmir protest; and creating second-class doctors

“We Shall Certainly Defeat the Government”

Rahul Pandita

Somewhere in the impregnable jungles of Dandakaranya, the supreme commander of CPI (Maoist) spoke to Open on issues ranging from the Government’s proposed anti-Naxal offensive to Islamist Jihadist movements

Of Wars and Demons

Open

Indian forces are ready for a big offensive against Naxal insurgents in Dandakaranya and elsewhere. Let’s be clear, India will be at war

Everybody is a Guerilla

Rahul Pandita

Can the Centre’s anti-Naxal offensive really achieve anything?

Vulture in Wait…

Ninad D. Sheth

...for your intervention that could save it from extinction, now that the threat is real indeed.

Dumb Down Dotcom

Shone S. Babu

The Internet was welcomed as an information superhighway, but has it ended up jamming our brains instead?

The Inheritance

Madhavankutty Pillai

A rare genetic disorder can be the most crushing and lonely ordeal to suffer.

You Can Check out, but Never Leave

Jaideep Mazumdar

This eccentric hotel in Kolkata brings its guests back again and again for the inimitable ‘Fairlawn experience’

The Giggler on the Roof

Akshay Sawai

Laughing is fun, more so when it is forbidden. Welcome to the world of inappropriate gigglers.

The Many Perceptions of Rape

Shubhangi Swarup

Doctors are surprised if the victim co-operates with them, for policemen wives cannot be raped by husbands, the defence tries to prove that the victim is a major because anyone over 16 is thought to have given consent, judges worry about marital prospects of victims…everyone expects this crime to fit into their picture