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Brotherhood of Urchins

Shubhangi Swarup

On the streets, boys survive on a powerful code of absolute friendship. They become one, a swarm, a super organism that sometimes gapes through your car window

How Bad Is the Economy?

The fiscal year 2008-09 is at its end, and everyone is cheering its demise. Although we won’t know yet, the news (conveniently after the election results are out!) will not be good.

Taliban at the Gates

A real menace. More of these fighters have slipped into Kashmir than first thought

“I am Narendra Modi’s Wife”

In a poor village, the woman who is believed to be the estranged wife of the most powerful man in Gujarat lives in a one-room home

The Candle People

They’re there and they’re angry about the November terror attacks in their upscale constituency. The question is will they vote?

Spare Us Crocodile Tears

Angry comrades, embittered by the violence wraught by industrial displacement, will now vote against communist parties

Everybody has a Wish List

The national rural employment guarantee scheme has raised expectations dramatically in the village in which it was launched

More Sockets than Bulbs

The women of this rural constituency with one of the country’s worst sex ratios will vote, but only the way they’re told

Lost Lives and Blank Ballots

In terror-afflicted Kashmir, the tragedy-stricken will vote only if it helps them come to terms with their acute sense of loss

Why Voting Is Futile

Parliamentary democracy is an illusion for the masses while revolution is their reality

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