Cover Story

RTI and reprisal
Interview: Prithviraj Chavan,
Union Minister
A right and wrongs
Interview: Subhash
Chandra Agrawal
Interview: Arvind Kejriwal
Interview: Wajahat Habibullah, CIC
Crucial process
Interview: Sumaira Abdulali
Maharashtra: Revenge attacks
Interview: Nayana Kathpalia
Secrecy around Bill
on whistle-blowers

The States
Lalgarh: Fair-weather friends
Haryana: Conviction of Dalit killers
Kandhamal: Living in fear

World Affairs
West Asia: Building tensions
General Fonseka indicted
Iraq: Crude reality
Kosovo: Blow for separatism

Travel
A paradise in ferment

Theatre
Interview: Jisha Menon

Space
Man for Mars

Essay

Kak and Sheikh

Livelihood Issues
Orissa: Reluctant migrants
Ponds on paper

Census 2011
The caste factor

Controversy
Commonwealth Games: Mega scam

Jammu & Kashmir
On the boil
For the healing touch

Development Issues
Uttar Pradesh: Farmers on the warpath

Column
Praful Bidwai: Superbug vs humbug

C.P. Chandrasekhar: Sheltered existence
Bhaskar Ghose: Tap into tradition
R.K. Raghavan: Permit or perish
Jayati Ghosh: Media accountability

Update
Hunger and profits
© Guardian News & Media 2010
China overtakes Japan
© Guardian News & Media 2010
Latin America: Creating another world
© Guardian News & Media 2010

Books
Road to freedom
review by Shelley Walia
On a wild trail
by S.Theodore Baskaran
Force no solution
review by A.G. Noorani