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No Quarter Given
VK Shashikumar
This is how Mahinda Rajapaksa, president of the island nation, orchestrated the military and political operations that brought down the LTTE. Find out how he did what previous presidents could not
Rahul’s Congress
The party’s heir apparent has seen his youthful experiments in electoral democracy succeed and is now ready to shake the party up
The End of a Death Cult
Prabhakaran’s death is good for the Tamil cause in Lanka. Political process gets a chance to come back to centrestage
No Smoking, No Problem
E-cigarettes, nicotine drinks, snuff... ways to duck the cigarette ban the world over are now in India
They Come in Pairs
A farmer in Kerala opens a haven for young couples where they can spend time alone, away from judgmental neighbours and family
Meet the Angry Yuppie
India’s fashionable young are beginning to show their outrage. But there is something comic about it
No One Wants to be Like India
Parag Khanna has always been on the go. Open’s David Lepeska recently corralled him for a wide-ranging discussion. Excerpts
When Bottom Fishing Pays Off
The Satyam acquisition epsiode is probably the kind of script Anand Mahindra would have written during his days as a filmmaking student at Harvard.
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