DECEMBER 2010

The meaning of change.... 

Cover Story and Featured Stories

Excerpts from an exclusive interview with Dr SY Quraishi, Chief Election Commissioner
Sanjay Kapoor and Sadiq Naqvi

The 2G scam throws light once again on how corporate power leaves no stone unturned in making governments act in its interest
Sanjay Kapoor Delhi

Editorial: December
Hardnews Bureau Delhi

With Alanis Morissette’s Hand in My Pocket plugged in the ears she walks carefree on the streets. Her long, uncombed hair roughly settles on the shoulder and in between this chaos a bright red bra strap naughtily peeps out
Hardnews Bureau Delhi

Our medical research institutes and health ministry pundits need to do some urgent jugaad in the matter!
Hardnews Bureau Delhi

If I win this election, there is a fair chance that I’ll get a ticket in the next assembly polls
Hardnews Bureau Delhi

Public spaces as visual and tangible experiences of urban detachment and being. A zone of possibilities
Hardnews Bureau Delhi

The nation cried with Babita when she failed to win the gold in wrestling and cheered for Kavita Raut as she ran to win a medal in athletics, the first for India in 52 years of CWG
Hardnews Bureau Delhi

Tens of thousands of crores have gone into scams and Commonwealth Games — why can’t this kind of money be used to recharge the soul and essence of our dying
rivers and the eco-systems they sustain?
Hardnews Bureau Delhi

Rakhi Sawant, the titillating host, has been in the middle of too many cheap, often manufactured controversies, the kind which makes TV moguls and sections of viewers salivate
Hardnews Bureau Delhi

If the police, especially the lower ranks, remains perpetually underpaid, trapped in abysmally unhappy work conditions, the state of pessimism will continue
Hardnews Bureau Delhi

For most manual scavengers, the choice of profession is terribly limited due to caste dogma, lack of education and skills, and paucity of jobs
Hardnews Bureau Delhi