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| • A Handful of Pebbles |
| In the land that once sheltered Lord Ram, Mawasi tribals tell SHRIYA MOHAN that they struggle to feed their children every day |
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| • He Will Not Eat You |
| WHY IS INDIA THE HARDEST MARKET FOR MODERN INDIAN CUISINE? IF YOU SPEND DAYS WITH MASTER CHEF VINEET BHATIA INSIDE HIS NEW KITCHEN, YOU MAY HAVE AN ANSWER, SAYS GAURAV JAIN |
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| • The Steady Waterfall |
| Covering issues ranging from displaced tribals to rickshaw-pullers, filmmaker Jharna Jhaveri Singh wants to make a dent in the way people think, says NISHITA JHA |
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| • The Marriage Of Abundance |
| None of these people thought there was a wedding in their future. Until a website flew them past their weighty issues, says AASTHA ATRAY BANAN |
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| • ‘Women Can’t Grow Fat And Expect Fidelity’ |
| MEHAR BHASIN, Model |
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| • Shoot At Sight |
| PARVAIZ BUKHARI reports on photographer Rafiq Maqbool’s brush with Pulitzer glory |
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| • Mind Snare |
| MILLIONS OF FAMILIES ARE STRUGGLING WITH PSYCHIATRIC ILLNESSES WITH ALMOST NO SUPPORT. DIVYA GUPTA SURVEYS A LANDSCAPE OF INTENSE DESPAIR — AND HOPE |
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| • The Kernel Of Bad Ethics |
| The controversial Seeds Bill is lying in Parliament. It is anti-farmer, pro-industry and needs a drastic rewrite |
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| • The New Market Jingle |
| The currency bazaar could soon outpace the equity derivatives, says SHANTANU GUHA RAY |
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| • Not A Lion In Sight |
| Losing homes to Asiatic lions that never arrived is enough to drive Saharia tribes towards hunger and malnutrition, finds SHRIYA MOHAN |
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| • The Constant Gardeners |
| Not content with what is peddled on the streets, marijuana smokers are now growing their own weed, finds NISHITA JHA |
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| • Cash For Chaos |
| FOR THE RIGHT PRICE, YOU CAN GET THE SRI RAM SENE TO ORGANISE A RIOT ANYWHERE. AN EXPOSÉ BY PUSHP SHARMA. WRITTEN BY SANJANA. ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY K ASHISH |
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| • Why The Valley Blooms |
| A LIFETIME OF DEATH AND LOSS IS DRIVING THOUSANDS OF YOUNG KASHMIRIS TO DRUG ABUSE. PARVAIZ BUKHARI REPORTS ON A DISTURBING NEW EPIDEMIC |
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| • The Crimson Brief |
| AN ALARMING SECRET IB COMMUNIQUÉ TARGETS SEVERAL HUMAN RIGHTS GROUPS AS FRONTAL ORGANISATIONS OF THE MAOISTS, REPORTS RAMAN KIRPAL |
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| • A Representation Of Nothing |
| Is the national census an attempt to dismantle the caste system, or simply a restatement of colonial manipulation? |
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| • Fuse Fiasco |
| SINGLE VENDOR SUPPLY OF ARTILLERY FUSES FOR THE ARMY IS CAUSING CONCERN, REPORTS SHANTANU GUHA RAY |
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| • Fire In The Belly |
| In the concluding part of her series, SHRIYA MOHAN visits Korku tribals in Madhya Pradesh forced to adopt horrific ritual ‘cures’ to treat malnutrition |
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| • Math By Heart |
| Vedic Math teachers are now minting crores, but how Vedic or useful is it, asks SAMRAT CHAKRABARTI |
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| • Tintin In Bareilly |
| Translated into Hindi for the first time, the newly-desi adventures of Tintin are all set to hit the heartland, says NISHITA JHA |
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| • Baby’s Day Out |
| WELCOME TO THE AGE OF THE PUNDIT-APPROVED CAESAREAN BIRTH, SAYS AASTHA ATRAY BANAN |
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| • The Morning After |
| This is the point when you wonder why selfhood in modern life is tied irrevocably to work. |
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| • The Fleshy Tones Of Real India |
| Going to Patna for a vacation sounds a bit like going to the bus-stop for a martini. But my parents live there, and Patna is where i visit for the holidays. |
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| • The Torrential Luxury |
| Forget the beaches of goa, the French architecture in Puducherry or the old school charm of Kolkata. For once, I want a week-long break where there are no photos, no tourists and no landmarks to visit. that’s my idea of bliss. |
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| • Land Of Thread And Mirrors |
| When we first told people that we were headed to Kutch for a holiday, their reactions convinced us that the world can be divided into two categories of people — the ones who say ‘wow, Kutch!’ and the others who say ‘why Kutch?!’ we were a little confused about what we would find there. |
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| • Harem Pants And Psychedelic Trance |
| I’M LOOKING for a less overwhelming experience than Goa — with its endless choices of hotels, food and beaches — and fighting the near-impossibility of skinny-dipping in Pondicherry’s waters (pardon me if I’m wrong, for I’ve been to neither) — and Gokarna, seems the ideal getaway in the face of these impulses. |
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| • Romeo And Juliet In Freeze Mode |
| WE HONEYMOONED in the hills, at Bob's Place just outside nathuakhan, a small town not far from mukteshwar. |
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| • Relax, It’s Just A Vacation |
| REMEMBER THE time when summer holidays meant doing nothing? We chugged off over alarmingly large distances in distressingly slow trains to our native place, hung out with a gaggle of cousins, uncles and aunts, saw an occasional film or two, and ate copious quantities of homemade food — but for most part we did nothing. holidays were a time when we unplugged our individual existences and plugged into the mother ship at the family headquarters. |
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| • 24 Candid Photographs : Summer Special (Out of Station) |
| MS Dhoni • Lara Dutta • Fatima Bhutto • Bharat Sikka
Purab Kohli • Zoya Akhtar • Sourav Ganguly • Amit Chaudhuri
Kangana Ranaut • Pooja Bedi • Jogen Chowdhury • Kalki Koechlin
Cyrus Sahukar • Wendell Rodricks • Mohanlal • Sapna Bhavnani |
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| • Radiation City |
| 1,800 CELL TOWERS IN 2006. 6,000 NOW. BARE MINIMUM RADIATION LEVELS IN 2006. A THOUSAND TIMES MORE NOW. THERE’S A NEW THREAT IN DELHI, REPORTS RISHI MAJUMDER |
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| • Air India Crash A Hundred Wrongs Later |
| LIKE SO MANY OTHER PLANE CRASHES, THE DISASTER IN MANGALORE IS THE CONSEQUENCE OF OFFICIAL LAXITY, SAYS SHANTANU GUHA RAY |
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| • Fish, Rice, Blood |
| A CIVILIAN BUS IS BLOWN UP. SIX MEN ARE ARRESTED. BELOW RADAR, A MINDLESS CYCLE OF VIOLENCE ROLLS ON IN DANTEWADA. TUSHA MITTAL REPORTS FROM GROUND ZERO |
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| • Death Games That Politicians Play |
| Before hanging Afzal Guru, the government should weigh all the implications |
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| • Reliance Accord: Brothers In Arms Again |
| THE NEED TO RAISE FUNDS FOR THEIR MEGA PROJECTS HAS FORCED THE ONCEWARRING SIBLINGS TO TALK BUSINESS, REPORTS SHANTANU GUHA RAY |
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| • The Dry Well Of Promises |
| ANUMEHA YADAV TRAVELS TO RAJASTHAN TO EVALUATE THE UPA GOVERNMENT’S FLAGSHIP RURAL EMPLOYMENT SCHEME |
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| • The Mismanagement of Neville Tuli |
| Neville Tuli was once a gust of fresh air in Indian art but after his recent financial crisis he has been turned into a cautionary tale. NISHA SUSAN tracks his mysterious arc |
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| • Swimming With The Babel Fish |
| Samanth Subramanian’s journeys into watery realms lead to wholesome ends, says ARUL MANI |
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| • So why is Narendra Modi protecting Amit Shah? |
| ‘The calls made by the minister are not part of official decorum. Their frequency is unnatural and uncommon in nature.’ — Gujarat CID report on Amit Shah’s calls to encounter cops |
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| • THE PUSH INTO NAXAL TERRITORY |
| The IAF plans to build a base in Maoist-affected Chhattisgarh, report SAMIRAN SAHA and JYOTIRMOY CHAUDHURI |
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| • Liberty is Not a Stone’s Throw Away in Valley |
| The new mode of expressing anguish is not an effective form of political protest |
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| • The European currency crisis is worrying small and medium Indian borrowers |
| CORPORATE INDIA is rattled. Along with hardening interest rates and the newly introduced base rate regime, which restricts lending below a particular level (varying from bank to bank), Indian companies may now also have to put up with selective offshore lending by banks and financial institutions abroad. This comes amidst the worsening economic situation in the Eurozone.
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| • Self-Insure Or Exit |
| Offshore disasters force insurers to reassess how much they can underwrite, reports SHANTANU GUHA RAY |
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| • THE GREEN MILE |
| Sikkim is experimenting with organic farming and reaping rich dividends, says SAUMYA TYAGI |
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| • SHUTTLE ISLAND |
| Saina Nehwal’s meteoric rise is perhaps not so meteoric. This is the story of a family that has lived and breathed badminton for over a decade, says VAIBHAV VATS |
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| • LONELY, SAILOR? |
| If you think people are sailing solo to get away from the world — think again, says NERGISH SUNAVALA. Even at high sea you can’t escape Facebook |
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| • NIA probes point to Kerala as new hub of terror funds |
| THE NATIONAL Investigation Agency (NIA) set up in 2008 to look into cases affecting the sovereignty, security and integrity of the country, has been very busy in Kerala. Of a total of 14 cases being investigated by the top intelligence agency, comparable to the FBI of the US, the state has a disproportionately high share of six. The most sensitive is that of a fellow IPS officer who allegedly met ‘wanted men’ on unauthorised trips abroad. This case was taken over by NIA at the request of the state government.
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