Anybody can be picked up, branded as Maoist and jailed, beaten up, smashed, charged with dubious cases, ordinary people are killed, tribal women get raped and assaulted.....
Harsh Dobhal Dantewada/Delhi
FEBRUARY 2010
Cover Story and Featured Stories
Never reconciled, in their loved land, born from the pangs of history, the Telangana movement resurrects in the hearts of young students like fire and fury, waiting to become rivers of self-respect and equality. Will it, this time?
Manjusha Madhu Hyderabad
What’s added to the fun is the filmmakers have taken all the Bollywood clichés and turned them around just as their 3 idiots would
Sonali Ghosh Sen Delhi
Organised corruption, drug-trafficking, warlords and terrorism. And the most corrupt are those responsible for upholding law and order
Mehru Jaffer Vienna
Every word in this cover story is stretching the threshold of disbelief, desperately seeking the wisdom of a constitutional democracy, subverted by those who are extracting the final juices of democracy
Amit Sengupta Delhi
Haunted by scams, absolute lack of transparency and accountability, and a pronounced anti-poor stance, it’s time to open the tightly shut windows of the higher judiciary in India
Prashant Bhushan Delhi
Between democracy and darkness stands the judiciary. It stands heads and shoulders above the judicial systems in Asia. But it is in rapid decline. Ahead is pitch darkness
Colin Gonsalves Delhi
The revelations of Ruchika Girhotra’s case left the entire nation shocked.
Akash Bisht Delhi
It took 25 years to register a case against Congress politician, Sajjan Kumar, widely accused to be the leader of a mob in west Delhi which burnt, looted, raped and killed Sikhs
Amit Sengupta Delhi
If educated women or those from influential families find it difficult to engage with the police, what can poor women in the margins do?
Sumiran Preet Kaur Delhi
So what about justice for 42 Muslims killed in Hashimpura by the PAC — 22 years ago?
Akash Bisht Delhi
More Stories from this Issue
There is a mountain of historical evidence to prove that the ballooning opium production and trade in Afghanistan is not possible without support of the Americans and the British
Sanjay Kapoor Delhi
It is a touch funny to see many media professionals expressing righteous indignation over how politicians and political parties bought editorial space during the last general elections. The Editors Guild, responding to the criticism, appointed a panel to look into the phenomenon of 'paid news' and also to suggest ways and means to prevent it. The innocence displayed by these worthies about this practice is quite amusing.
This February sees Berlin beautifying itself with an abandon that can only be described as unabashed.
Out on a fishing boat under a clear blue early morning sky to go dolphin watching, the violence, squabbles and tensions that mark daily life fade into irrelevance - including the recent tensions ar
The Hitchcockian fog in Delhi carried the moist midnight north wind from the mountains and the cinematic night unfolded without a sense of mystery.
I woke up screaming this morning. I dreamt that I was travelling to some vague destination (you know how disjointed and blurry dreams can be) and my flight was forced to make an emergency landing in Melbourne. I had a day to kill in Australia. In my nightmare, I spent that entire day dodging nasty gangs wielding crow bars, cricket bats - the works. I pinched myself really hard several times over to reassure myself that it was just a sickening dream. As a result of which, I bruised myself so badly in the process, so now I do look like I spent quality time in Australia, after all.