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From Hinduism to Hindutva at the Kumbh
Dhirendra K Jha
Like 1989, the VHP has used the occasion to rouse communal sentiment, which the BJP hopes will work to its advantage in Uttar Pradesh
The Assignment
For Anjan Sundaram, mathematics was a spiritual pursuit. But then he was consumed by the desire to collide with reality. And, he went to Congo as a journalist. There, amid the rubble of a country torn by civil war and in the company of its wretched children, he experienced life at its most exuberant
An Affair to Remember
An encounter with Ma Anand Sheela, Osho’s former personal secretary and author of a controversial bare-all memoir
Darkly Dreaming Dexter
Michael C Hall, the fascinating serial killer of Dexter, the hit American TV show, talks about dealing with his inner dark passenger, on and off screen
Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World
Aasif Mandvi, ‘Brown Correspondent’ of Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show that airs in America, on satire, pop culture and bigotry
‘You cannot humiliate people forever and expect them to be quiet’
Sri Lanka had a chance to heal itself, but that opportunity was not seized, says Frances Harrison in an interview
Honey Laundering
The arrest of a couple of corporate executives exposes a global racket, with Chinese honey being shipped to America under ‘Indian’ labels to sneak past a tariff barrier
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