MARCH 2010

MARCH 2010

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Nothing Common about this Wealth

This is the expose Hardnews carried in March 2010, long before the mainline media even cared to look at the Commonwealth Games scam....

EVERY TIGER, NATION’S CONSCIENCE

The principle cog in the food and ecological cycle, with every tiger gone, the entire country’s survival is at stake. Beware India. Protect the big cat in the wild. Hardnews joins the campaign to protect the most majestic and magnificent creature in the animal kingdom
Akash Bisht Delhi

This rain dance is toxic

This can be apocalyptic for perhaps the only success story of tiger preservation. The precious Jim Corbett National Park is stalked by real estate and tourist lobbies, violating every code of the wild
Akash Bisht Delhi

Lone soldiers of the Wild

Poaching prospers in an environment where committed forest guards are underpaid and professionally untrained
Pradeep Kapoor Lucknow

Zero option: Save the Tiger

Editorial: March
Hardnews Bureau

JAGTE RAHO

Bengal’s theatre legend Shombhu Mitra set new benchmarks of genius. But why is there not one meaningful archive on his life and work?
Partha Mukherjee and Priyanka Mukherjee Kolkata

From bad to good

The Indian industry has begun to show results, says an upbeat Union Commerce Minister, Anand Sharma
Sanjay Kapoor Delhi

Kalpavriksha: Celebrate the Banana Republic

With its amazing variety of delicious use, the banana and its tree are a multi-treat for the connoisseur. As summer arrives, it’s time for a banana revolution
Ratna Raman Delhi

‘State governments are in denial’

Belinda Wright, 57, one of India's leading conservationists, has pushed the limits to save the Great Indian tiger. She won two Emmy awards and 14 international awards for her film "Land of the Tiger'. She spoke to Hardnews in New Delhi
Akash BIsht Delhi

Conquerors of the golden city

In March 2010, Hardnews reported of the many irregularities in the Commonwealth Games. It was futureless quagmire, those games and Delhi seemed to be helplessly sinking in a haze of smoke and construction, beside a sewage-drain called the Yamuna. While Suresh Kalmadi had the last laugh
Akash Bisht and Sadiq Naqvi Delhi

Dirty Money Once Again

Panchayat elections in Rajasthan is a transparent indicator of the new political trend in India: cash-fixed grassroots democracy
Rahul Ghai Bikaner

Miffed by miff

Backed by the government, the Mumbai International Film Festival, true to its negative history, yet again alienated many documentary filmmakers
Ajinkya Shenava and Arindam Banerjee Mumbai

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But he did not have a shirt

‘I tried to stop a lone Gond walking in the direction I had just seen a tiger, he grunted and continued on his way, unperturbed’

Sachin’s Soliloquy

He knew on this Wednesday, this was his day and his night, as the magical narrative would unfold, like a gentle predator in the wild who has no threat perception

Cut the cliche

This first feature film by Aladag makes it clear that many Muslim women are no more slaves of men, and that honour killings have nothing to do with Islam

Here’s looking at you, kid!

Rahul Gandhi’s good vibes didn’t end there. Emboldened by his success, Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan ensured that the state government provided protection for a Bollywood film, and the Shiv Sena was left with egg on its face and bits of torn posters of My Name is Khan in its grubby hands

Plays and books, not bombs

“Jihad,” said Adnan Sabzwari, the young scientist, “is not strapping yourself with a suicide vest and blowing up people, but making life better for the hungry and the poor”

The Great Indian Spectrum scam

Intel: Hardnews Bureau