Vol. 2, Issue 03 March 2010
 
Goings On
Art, Paperwork, Science, The Orient
Letters From
Belfast, Phnom Penh
Perspectives
Politics
Code Red
Politics
Spy Reforms
Reporting & Essays
Essay
How They Got Here
Reportage
The Road to Telangana
Books
Essay
Into the Enchanted Forest and up the Faraway Tree
Books
A Tale of Two Revolts
Art & Literature
Feature
End of Days
Feature
The Democracy of Trash

In This Issue

Cover Story
THE PHIPHTY-PHIPHTY PARTY
RAMACHANDRA GUHA on 125 Years of the Congress and What Rahul Gandhi Could Learn from History
SIDDHARTHA DEB
THE ROAD TO TELANGANA
DEBORAH BAKER
The Story of a Jewish
American Woman
Who Embraced
Jama'at-I-Islami
MAHASWETA DEVI
SHORT STORY
Knife
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Goings On
Letters From
The Troubles Revisited
After more than a decade of peace, is sectarian violence resurging in Northern Ireland?
DON DUNCAN
An Unsafe House
Did Beijing’s economic assistance to Cambodia influence Phnom Penh’s deportation of 20 political refugees?
SEBASTIAN STRANGIO
Perspectives
Code Red
With the launch of the four-state Operation Green Hunt, India’s Maoist conflict is set to intensify
SUBIR BHAUMIK
Spy Reforms
When the Home Ministry charts out changes in national security, it is time they include Indian espionage in the review
VINOD K JOSE
Social Insecurity Scheme
The NREGA is still bedevilled by massive corruption and mismanagement
PARANJOY GUHA THAKURTA
The Drama of Our Times
Theatre in India continues to be a neglected stepchild of the arts
SUDHANVA DESHPANDE
Reporting & Essays
How They Got Here
One Hundred and Twenty Five Years of the Congress Party
RAMACHANDRA GUHA
The Road to Telangana
India’s new state faces old problems
SIDDHARTHA DEB
The Convert:
A Fable of Islam and America
DEBORAH BAKER
Understanding Husain
How his multi-religious art has been fashioned
K BIKRAM SINGH
Journeys
The Whitewashing of the Red Lights
Does the issue of beauty vs ugliness apply in the world’s most notorious pleasure quarter?
ABHIMANYU SINGH & ALETTA ANDRÉ
Fiction & Poetry
Knife
Translated from the Bengali by
MAHASWETA DEVI
When It Rains In Dharamsala
TENZIN TSUNDUE
Books
Into the Enchanted Forest and up the Faraway Tree
Why is there a corner of the Indian Heart that is forever Enid Blyton?
AMY ROSENBERG
A Tale of Two Revolts
The 1857 Revolt in India and the American Civil War
RAJMOHAN GANDHI
Home Boy
In prison, I finally got it. I understood that just as three black
HUSSAIN M NAQVI
Anitya: Halfway to Nowhere
Mridula Garg is one of the country’s most established and
MRIDULA GARG, translated by SEEMA SEGAL
Victoria and Abdul: The True Story of the Queen’s Closest Confidante
Twenty-four-year-old Abdul Karim arrived in England
SHRABANI BASU
Rukmini Devi: A Life
On 30 December 1935, 31-year old Rukmini Devi created
LEELA SAMSON
Kabul Disco
When carefree writer Nicolas Wild arrived in
NICOLAS WILD
Made in India: Adventures of a Lifetime
Skinny, with his full mop of hair that resembled a crow’s nest
BIDDU
Art & Literature
End of Days
Choices for art: as artefact, evolving entity, or in aspic
DAVE BESSELING
The Democracy of Trash
Nothing’s too good for Michael Landy’s art bin, a monument to creative failure
EMILIA TERRACIANO
Reviews
The Showcase
 
 
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