JUNE 2013

Editorial: June 2013
Hardnews Bureau Delhi

In the event of the Geneva Conference collapsing, Dante’s hellfire might not seem like a distant metaphor
Sanjay Kapoor Delhi

This is perhaps the most objective and diabolical gift of schizophrenic crony capitalism to contemporary India and the world, playing a jarring orchestra with a political apparatus in nexus, across most parties, subsumed and consumed by the most brazen seductions of relentless greed. So who will tell the IPL’s sleazy story when all narratives have been subverted?
Amit Sengupta Delhi 

Like the death of Badrish Dutt of the Delhi Police Special Cell, and Geeta Sharma, his partner, many of the dark stories will remain buried. But the fact remains, when it comes to the obscenely lucrative IPL, the cupboard is bursting with shady skeletons. And, fixers 
Sanjay Kapoor Delhi 

As the Pablo Neruda poem goes, the blood was already and always flowing, eternally clotted and forensically meaningless
Amit Sengupta Delhi 

Reading Dibakar Banerjee’s ‘Star’: Purandar’s failures keep him from being co-opted into the bourgeois world of businessmen and the kitsch of popular cinema
Manash Bhattacharjee  Delhi 

A special investigative report Hardnews did in June 2013 on Tehelka's majority owner/promoter and TMC MP KD Singh's ponzi scheme that allegedly duped people of Rs 1,932.91 crore. Alchemist Capital, one of the companies under investigation by SEBI And SFIO, is partly owned by Royal Building and Infrastructure, the same company that bought majority stakes in Anant Media Pvt Ltd (Tehelka), as per the balance sheets available on the Ministry of Corporate Affairs website
Sadiq Naqvi Delhi 

Following the massive drubbing in Karnataka, the gloves are clearly off for yet another round of infighting in the principal opposition party
Poornima Joshi Delhi 

On voting in Pakistan, five years ago, one would hear people nonchalantly remark: my vote doesn’t count. What can one vote achieve against so many? Come Elections 2013, and popular rhetoric was: every vote counts
Farieha Aziz Karachi 

On voting in Pakistan, five years ago, one would hear people nonchalantly remark: my vote doesn’t count. What can one vote achieve against so many? Come Elections 2013, and popular rhetoric was: every vote counts
Farieha Aziz Karachi 

Face to Face: Kishore Chandra Deo, Union Mininster for Tribal Affairs and Panchayati Raj
Akash Bisht Delhi

Problems stem from the projection of Angie as a female messiah who gave up her only breasts for the sake of womankind. This is a cross whose burden she must not carry
Ratna Raman Delhi