Vol. 2, Issue 02
February 2010
Goings On
Politics
Ahmadinejad's site hacked
Iranian activists have always been an inventive lot...
Art
Philip K Dick's estate threatens Google
Science fiction writer Philip K Dick died in 1982...
Letters From
Vancouver
Sharing the Olympic Blame
The 21st Winter Olympiad is the first in history to be co-hosted by Aboriginals. What do they get out of it?...
Xinjiang
Yuan for Oil
In China’s Uyghur Autonomous Region, the petroleum and development only flow one way...
Perspectives
Politics
The Majoritarian making of a Nation
Why India should avoid being on the wrong side of history in Sri Lanka...
Economy
A Budget without the Fireworks
Don’t expect Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee to deal with India’s myriad fiscal problems with bombast and hype...
Reporting & Essays
Reportage
The Road Back from Ayodhya
The Muslim quest for inclusion in the new India...
Reportage
The Treasure of Trash
In the race to modernise before the Commonwealth Games, Delhi’s trashpickers are being left behind...
Art & Literature
Book Excerpt
A Missile in the Living Room
A far-reaching study of the accused in the war on terror...
Feature
The New Southern Sensation
A quiet but exciting revolution in contemporary Tamil cinema...
Editor's Notebook
By Anant Nath
The Great Wall Against Free Information

The Road Back from Ayodhya

The Muslim quest for inclusion in the new India
In the afternoon of 6 December 1992, Tariq Masood, a ninth-grade student in Gorakhpur, western Uttar Pradesh, saw the television go black in the middle of a Doordarshan news bulletin. The electricity in the town was cut off for the rest of the day and the batteries in their radio were dead. . . .

BASHARAT PEER
 
Reporting & Essays
Dispatches from a Gated Community
By HARTOSH SINGH BAL
A good hard look at recent Indian fiction in English
Letters From
Sharing the Olympic Blame
By ARNO KOPECKY
The 21st Winter Olympiad is the first in history to be co-hosted by Aboriginals. What do they get out of it?
 
Art & Literature
The New Southern Sensation
By PRADEEP SEBASTIAN
A quiet but exciting revolution in contemporary Tamil cinema
Perspectives
A Budget without the Fireworks
By PARANJOY GUHA THAKURTA
Don’t expect Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee to deal with India’s myriad fiscal problems with bombast and hype
Fiction & Poetry
The House of Fear
By IBN-E-SAFI (Translated from Urdu by Bilal Tanweer)
The bestselling Imran series are Urdu cult classics, now translated into English for the first time.
 
Photo Essay
Congo’s Contradictory Superlatives
WALTER ASTRADA
  • The Treasure of
    In the race to modernise before the Commonwealth Games, Delhi’s trashpickers are being left behind
 
 

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