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Voices

A Matter of Good Taste

What is it that unites Mamata, Manjhi and the Sadhvi?

The Sense of a Meaning

A survey says one-fourth of India practises untouchability, but uses a loose definition for it

“Stalin was a man of surpassing intelligence and willpower”

Stephen Mark Kotkin on Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928, his first volume in a three-part study of the Russian autocrat which hit the stands recently

The Leading Role Nobody Wants

Getting Her Ducks in a Row • In Desperate Need of a Comeback Flick

So long, farewell Deven Verma

Bollywood doesn’t make actors or humour like him anymore

THE BRIDES WHO DARED

In some parts of Rajasthan, girls are married as young as eight years old. Some have grown up to declare freedom

All Smoke, No Fire

Instead of a ban on loose cigarettes why not just stop all production

Aamir’s Profit Motive

No Longer a Safe Bet • Convenient Fiction?

Who’s cookin’ Doc?

Popular cooking shows are tipping the gender balance in the conservative Indian kitchen

Rising from the ashes, slowly

The three ‘shocks’ that are transforming India. But don’t expect miracles

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