Cover Story
Withering lives
Interview: B.L. Mungekar
Harvest of death in Vidarbha
Marathwada's turn
Bitter truth
Vines of debt
Konkan paradox
Flawed planning
Judicial rap

Obituary

Bismillah Khan

West Asia
Iran: Standing up to the West

The States
Andhra Pradesh: Road to Kondamodalu

Deprivation
Starving childhoods in Sheopur

World Affairs
Lebanon: Changing the script
Fighters as builders
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Gunter Grass' confession
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Japan: Imperial baggage
Cuba: Brief break

Nature
Kurinji crown

Cinema
Kasaravalli's world

Interview
Sumith Nakandala, former Sri Lankan Deputy High Commissioner

Child Labour
Imperfect sympathy

Jammu & Kashmir
Hizbul: Terror in twilight

Business & Politics
Corporate design
U.P.: A project for power
Political brew
Haryana: Land of privileges
Funds for parties

Mathematics
Grigori Perelman: Eccentric genius
The mathematician's Nobel
Missing Prize
Solving a Conjecture

Column
Praful Bidwai: Crying wolf over 'terror'
Jayati Ghosh: Tax net and the big fish
Bhaskar Ghose: Living in the war zone
R.K. Raghavan: A reverse for terrorism?

Books
Tales the dead tell
review by Theodore Baskaran
I'm British, but...
review by Vijay Prashad
Urdu & secularism
review by A.G. Noorani

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The English Language
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