Vol. 2, Issue 09 September 2010
 
Goings On
Food and Rest, Oh China, Redundancy, Technology, Time and Space
Letters From
Darkhan, Port-au-Prince
Perspectives
Politics
The Beef Over Buff
Politics
Hindutva's Politics of Denial
Reporting & Essays
Reportage
The Man who says No to New Delhi
Excerpt
Absolute Khushwant
Arts & Reviews
Feature
Ruling the Dance Floor
Feature
Art Floats
Books
Reviews
The American Dream 0.0
Reviews
A Different Imagination
Editor's Notebook
THE GAMES PEOPLE PLAY

In This Issue

Cover Story
THE STUBBORN KASHMIRI
A Profile of the Separatist Hawk, Syed Ali Geelani
KHUSHWANT SINGH
On Manmohan Singh
and the
Nehru-Gandhi Family
PHOTO ESSAY
ROHINGYA:
HOMELESS IN
BANGLADESH
BASHARAT PEER
Testing Tolerance
at Ground Zero
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Goings On
Letters From
After the Quake
January's earthquake turned Port-au-Prince into rubble. As Haiti's reconstruction stalls, many families struggle for food and shelter
WILLIAM WHEELER
Mongolia’s Release Valve
For Mongolia's marginalised youth, hip-hop music provides an outlet to discuss unemployment, anger and disillusionment
KIT GILLET
Perspectives
The Beef Over Buff
Why Karnataka’s Cattle Slaughter Bill is Simply Ridiculous
VINOD K JOSE
Hindutva's Politics of Denial
Unless Hindu fundamentalism is addressed, India will continue on its path toward ethno-democracy
CHRISTOPHE JAFFRELOT
Where has Manmohan Singh's zest gone?
The Prime Minister has had enviable innings, but he seems to have lost his sense of purpose and direction
PARANJOY GUHA THAKURTA
Rounding up the Roma
Expelling India’s Oldest Diaspora Will Not Solve France’s Immigration Problems
MIRA KAMDAR
Reporting & Essays
The Man who says No to New Delhi
How defiance made Syed Ali Geelani relevant in Kashmir
MEHBOOB JEELANI
Absolute Khushwant
Absolute Khushwant: The Low-Down on Life, Death & Most Things In-Between (Penguin Books India, August, 2010)
KHUSHWANT SINGH (with Humra Quraishi)
The Legacy of the Looming Tower
How a proposed Islamic centre near the WTC site is testing tolerance and religious freedom in the United States
BASHARAT PEER
Cash on Delivery
Indian surrogate mothers are saviours for infertile Western couples. But who benefits, and is it ethical?
SCOTT CARNEY
Arts & Reviews
Ruling the Dance Floor
How two musicians of Indian origin popularised genre-bending south-Asian inspired music in the US
MIRANDA KENNEDY
Art Floats
Guwahati enters a new cultural phase
JANICE PARIAT
Original Is Overrated
Spiral Jetty explores derivation in contemporary art
SHRUTI PARTHASARATHY
Fiction & Poetry
Searching for Sita
Ayodhya is prospering, ten years after Ram’s triumphant return from fallen Lanka. A journalist seeks to uncover the truth behind the dissatisfaction that brews at the heart of this regime, however—and behind the darkness that preys on the Lankan war’s heroes. Most importantly, where is Sita? In this extract from an unpublished novella, we revisit Ayodhya in a unique piece of speculative fiction.
SAMHITA ARNI
Song for St Jude
REUBEN LULAM
Journeys
Credo of a Giant Killer
In Japan, a nation that doesn’t take tradition lightly, the scandals of modern sumo are a heavy burden for the country’s national sport
DAVE BESSELING
Books
The American Dream 0.0
Three books with three substantially different takes on post-9/11 New York
ANJUM HASAN
A Different Imagination
Two books that can teach us much about the often misrepresented worldview behind the Maoist cause
ASHLEY TELLIS
Bookshelf
Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy
Raghuram Rajan was one of the few economists
RAGHURAM G RAJAN
Besieged: Voices from Delhi 1857
This is the first-ever translation of the famous Mutiny Papers,
MAHMOOD FAROOQUI
Tata: The Evolution of a Corporate Brand
A series of high-profile acquisitions, including Jaguar
MORGEN WITZEL
The Truth about Me: A Hijra Life Story
We got stared at a lot. People asked out loudly
A REVATHI
The Crimson Throne
A historical novel set amidst the grandeur and intrigue of 17th century India.
SUDHIR KAKAR
This is Not That Dawn
Considered the greatest Partition novel ever written, Jootha Sach
YASHPAL
Keeping the Faith: Memoirs of a Parliamentarian
Somnath Chatterjee has been one of the longest-serving members
SOMNATH CHATTERJEE
Freedom: A Novel
A penetrating look at contemporary American society
JONATHAN FRANZEN
Shilpa Gupta
Shilpa Gupta is one of the most critically acclaimed younger artists
NANCY ADAJANIA
The Golden Gandhi Statue from America: Early Stories
These early stories of Subimal Misra took the world
SUBIMAL MISRA
The Showcase
Editor's Notebook
THE GAMES PEOPLE PLAY ANANT NATH
 
 
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