Vol. 4, Issue 2 February 2012
 
The Lede
End of Days
The Barefoot Balladeer
Time Travel
Diggi’s Days of Yore
Letters From
Israel, Nigeria
Perspectives
Politics
Misreading the Elections
Culture
The Indian Litfest Bug
Reporting & Essays
Reportage
The Defeated
Essay
Shelf Life
Arts & Reviews
Feature
So You Want to Be a DJ?
Art Review
Shots in the Dark
Books
Review
The Honey Gatherers
Essay
Clashing by Night
Editor's Notebook
Irrationally exposed at the Expo

In This Issue

Cover Story
After the Last War
Life, death and rebirth among Sri Lanka's battered Tamil minority
KATHERINE BOO'S
MUMBAI SLUM
MASTERPIECE
THE MAN WHO
LIBERALISED CRICKET
HOW THE
UP ELECTIONS
GET MISREAD
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The Lede
The Barefoot Balladeer
A day in the life of a minstrel
GBSNP VARMA
Diggi’s Days of Yore
Pulling back the litfest palace curtains
PARUL ABROL
At Their Own Risk
Four Bengaluru security guards take steps to easing a pedestrian nightmare
ADITYA KUMAR
A Ringside Seat
The seven brothers of boxerwala ghar
KRISHN KAUSHIK
Letters From
Losing Faith
African refugees in Israel face persecution and little solace
MYA GUARNIERI
Fuel to the Fire
Hit hard by the removal of petrol subsidies, Nigerians rise up against graft
TOLU OGUNLESI
Perspectives
Misreading the Elections
Too often obscured by the media’s penchant for prediction, ground realities in UP reveal the issues that truly determine results
SHIVAM VIJ
The Indian Litfest Bug
It can get you via email, bring you up close to writers you wouldn’t drink or piss with, and even send you into a fever of writing a book on litfests
AMITAVA KUMAR
Burma Becalmed
Under a cannier president, the world’s harshest junta opens up the road to Mandalay
PETER POPHAM
Food Insecurity
The “national shame” of malnutrition is a politically institutionalised, invisible shame of long standing
HIMANSHU
Landmark RTI Judgement in Favour
of The Caravan and Vinod K Jose

The I&B Ministry and The Sun TV compelled to reveal the shareholding of Kalanidhi Maran in Sun Direct
Reporting & Essays
The Defeated
Sri Lanka’s Tamils pick up the pieces after a war that defined—and shattered—the lives of a generation
ANONYMOUS
Shelf Life
A personal history of the Oxford University Press India at 100
RAMACHANDRA GUHA
Before the Flood
How Mark Mascarenhas first broke open the business of cricket
RAHUL BHATIA
Bhutan
Generation in Tradition
SANJIT DAS
Arts & Reviews
So You Want to Be a DJ?
Inside Delhi’s DJ training industry
ISHA SINGH SAWHNEY
Shots in the Dark
The wondrous world of photographic fiction
HIMANSHU BHAGAT
Fiction & Poetry
But Why Shouldn’t the Baindla Woman Ask for Her Land?
GOGU SHYAMALA
Homeless, A Secret Incident, Springtime Sea and The Depth of a Landscape 2
KIM SA-IN
Books
The Honey Gatherers
A definitive account of a Mumbai slum from one of the world’s best reporters
GIRISH SHAHANE
Clashing by Night
An epic new Tamil novel by a leading chronicler of subaltern lives
N KALYAN RAMAN
Monk, Mathematician, Marxist
How the talented Kosambis made India modern
ANANYA VAJPEYI
Bookshelf
The Other Country: Dispatches from the Mofussil
Public Enemies: Dueling Writers Take On Each Other and the World
The Loss Library and Other Unfinished Stories
Trying to Say Goodbye
Confluences: Forgotten Histories from East and West
The Appeasement of Radhika: Radhika Santawanam
The Yellow Emperor’s Cure
The Art of Effective Giving
Waterlife
The Showcase
Editor's Notebook
Irrationally exposed at the Expo ANANT NATH
 
 
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