FEBRUARY 2011

Cover Story and Featured Stories

A ‘surrogate corporate war’ plays out behind the Radia tapes expose', claims Ratan Tata
Hardnews Bureau Delhi

Churchill excoriated ‘Indians’ as a people with little merit, as the world’s ‘beastliest’ people, next only to Germans. ‘Famine or no famine’, Indians ‘bred like rabbits’ and did not deserve any emergency food shipments to relieve their hunger
Sukumar Muralidharan Delhi

That justice would elude even ‘beautiful people’ like Jessica was the first time that many of us confronted the ugly face of political corruption, bribery, miscarriage of justice
Sonali Ghosh Sen Kolkata

With a series of ghastly rapes and crimes stalking UP, it’s not all cake and ice-cream for the birthday girl
Pradeep Kapoor Lucknow

Many masks must be removed to discover the sinister face of those behind this conspiracy engineered by terrorist groups with intimate links with the RSS
Hardnews Bureau Delhi

The lure of high profits has institutionalised a system in which consumers remain forever at the mercy of insurance companies
Sadiq Naqvi Delhi

There is no consensus on what actually the soul of Pakistan is. What, indeed, is the soul of Pakistan?
Arshi Saleem Hashmi Islamabad

What makes Ahmed Patel tick?

With his great body of work with Satyajit Ray, in Bengali cinema and theatre, it’s time to celebrate the genius of Soumitra Chatterjee
Partha Mukherjee and Priyanka Mukherjee Kolkata

Said a sticker pasted all over, ‘If Binayak Sen is guilty of sedition, so are We!’
Amit Sengupta Delhi

Boundary walls and iron gates dominate Delhi’s landscape and imagination — a telling metaphor for a city that preys upon its public spaces even as it expands abnormally
Ratna Raman Delhi

In his silent, strategic backroom manoeuvring, Sonia Gandhi’s powerful political secretary Ahmed Patel is often the mind behind the party and the government
Hardnews Bureau Delhi