Cover Story

Dividing game
Interview: Akhilesh Yadav
Reorganising ideas
Lopsided growth
The legal position
Smaller the better?
Jharkhand's poor record
Interview: Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank

Extremism
West Bengal: A Maoist's end

Communalism
Gujarat pogrom: A verdict, finally
Interview: Teesta Setalvad

Nuclear Issues
Limiting liability
Key provisions

World Affairs
Pakistan: Memogate politics
Sri Lanka: Challenging tasks
Cornering Iran
`Pink tide' holds in Latin America
U.S.: Writing on the Wall

Travel

Along the Silk Route: Crossroads of cultures

Cinema
A different Tintin

History

Communist memories

Media
Times Now: Costly "mix-up"

Report
Human development: Grim predictions

Focus: Gitam University
Towards excellence
Interview: Vice-Chancellor Prof. G. Subramanyam
Business school in Hyderabad

The States
Rajasthan: Missing woman

Excellence

K.J. Jesudas: Celestial singer

Column
C.P. Chandrasekhar: The end of Europe?
Bhaskar Ghose: Governing India
Praful Bidwai: Durban challenge
R.K. Raghavan: The crime scene
Jayati Ghosh: Tyranny of finance

Books
Evolving economy
review article by C.T. Kurien
For the people
review article by V. Venkatesan
Beyond folktales
review by Shelley Walia
Sufism in Kashmir
review by A.G. Noorani

Also
Letters