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India This Week

arindam

Kashmiri Pandits Threatened, Warn of Fresh Exodus; Destination BJP for Defectors; Coping with Copenhagen; and How to Harass a Man Who Volunteers Info

Gunless but Hungry

Rahul Pandita

Unable to earn their livelihood, a number of former militants in Kashmir are contemplating rejoining the ‘Jihad’.

Keep Your Counsel, Prime Minister

Ninad D. Sheth

Manmohan Singh’s maiden visit to the Obama White House need not make news to be a success

Coastal Defences are Still at Sea

Ninad D. Sheth

Shockingly, wide gaps remain in India’s seaside security. The country cannot afford such vulnerability to an amphibious assault.

How long do we go on congratulating ourselves for our resilience? Can we ever hit back at terror? Our intelligence and response systems are still in disarray, our shores remain extremely porous. India needs to get its act together very quickly

Anything but a Box

Rahul Bhatia

You can’t go racing in these cars but they sure can attract a crowd. Their maker had stopped displaying them at traffic safety weeks, as they were causing traffic jams

Hirsute Pursuit

Kabeer Sharma

Man’s relationship with his facial hair has been fickle all through history. We work out the current fashionability quotient of this bit of human foliage.

Mud on the Menus

Pramila N. Phatarphekar

Farm-side dining comes centrestage in America, making star chefs plant eateries in the fields, next to the ingredients

Random Notes on Pimps

Pallavi Polanki

Red Light streets are yesterday. Mobile phones. Residential colonies. The suburbs. Housewives. Students. The pimps show us glimpses of the changing profile of the sex industry

‘You Guys Are So Expressive’

TR Vivek

The Finnish superbrand’s design specialist Juliana Fereira shrugs off comparisons with the iPhone and holds forth on creating a global language of iconography and the importance of widgets. What’s that? Read on