Cover Story

Fake encounters
Interview: Mukul Sinha
Dreaded group
Interview: Teesta Setalvad
Interview: M. Veerappa Moily
Encounter menace: State reports
Interview: Brinda Karat
Evading guidelines
Interview: Prashant Bhushan

Diplomacy
Visitor from Myanmar

Social Issues
For a law to check honour killings

World Affairs

Afghan expose
U.S.: In denial mode
Colombia-Venezuela: War of nerves
Conviction of a Khmer Rouge leader
Somalia: State of conflict

Travel
Lorraine: Toast of the art world

Interview
Of poetry and tigers: Ruth Padel, British writer

Public Health

Karnataka: Packaged food & malnutrition

Food Security
Tackling hunger
Interview: Aruna Roy

Focus: Karnataka State Police Department
Pride in policing
Interview: Home Minister V.S. Acharya

Obituary
K.M. Mathew
Suraj Bhan

Jammu & Kashmir

Valley on fire
Interview: Mehbooba Mufti
Interview: Mirwaiz Muhammad Umar Farooq
Interview: Ali Mohammad Sagar
Interview: Syed Ali Shah Geelani

Column
Bhaskar Ghose: When profit rules
R.K. Raghavan: Guantanamo's future
C.P. Chandrasekhar: Threat to PDS
Jayati Ghosh: Celebrating Chopin
Praful Bidwai: Going gets tough

Update
Zuma to abolish six monarchies
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Books
Imperial follies
review by Raza Naeem
Power and the press
by A.G. Noorani
India & two revolts
Interview: Rajmohan Gandhi.
review by V. Venkatesan
Not quite special
by A.G. Noorani