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Mamma mia

#677 ( 11 - 24 October 2013 )
The politics of Rahul Gandhi’s mother-fixation and India’s pre-election politics

Scoops about spooks

#676 ( 4-10 October 2013 )
Intelligence reporting is really embedded journalism

What's with the skullcaps?

#675 ( 27 September - 3 October )

Wagon R vs swish sedans

#674 ( 20 - 26 September 2013 )

Memory versus forgetting

#673 ( 13 - 19 September 2013 )

The anatomy of radicalism

#672 ( 6-12 September 2013 )

Do journalists need an education?

#671 ( 30 August-5 September )
No educational institute necessarily makes journalist sensitive to a guilty conscience

Modi’s Obama wish

#670 ( 23-29 August 2013 )
Narendra Modi harbours a desire for a more autocratic presidential system of government in India

It’s the same story in India

#669 ( 16-22 August 2013 )
Discrimination against Dalits in the Indian media is the norm

Run, Milkha run

#667 ( 2-8 August 2013 )
Biopic of India’s most famous athlete distorts his determination

Rebels with causes

#666 ( 26 July-1 August 2013 )
Gandhi, Assange, Snowden all tried to restore the moral compasses of their societies

Cricket gets a political spin

#665 ( 19-25 July 2013 )
Congratulate the Kashmiri cricketer Parvez Rasool, but pity him, too

Fatalism and disasters

#664 ( 12-18 July 2013 )
We need to rescue the gods from human attributes we have ascribed them

The politics of death

#663 ( 5-11 July 2013 )
The hallmark of Indian democracy at election time is to turn the statistics of corpses to political advantage

No need to panic

#662 ( 28 June-4 July 2013 )
India won’t go topsy turvy in elections next year, just as the world didn’t in 2000 due to the Y2K syndrome

Advani down, but not out

#661 ( 21-27 June 2013 )
The BJP knows that politics of Hindutva suffers from limitations in India’s diverse society

…but try telling that to Anbumani

#660 ( 14-20 June 2013 )
People won’t take to smoking just because their favourite actor smokes in the reel world

Same difference

#658 ( 31 May - 6 June 2013 )
India’s BCCI is to cricket what the United States is to global politics

It’s not cricket

#657 ( 24-30 May 2013 )
The Indian Premier League corrodes the base on which the historical memory of cricket is built

Secularism gone wrong

#656 ( 17-23 May 2013 )
Case study of a university in India which has become a playground of the Islamic right

It’s not cricket

#655 ( 10-16 May 2013 )
As in cricket, so in politics, the worth of your skills can only be assessed on its turf

Dahal in Delhi

#653 ( 26 April-2 May 2013 )
Dahal’s visit was an attempt to rebuild bridges with the Indian leadership

What a riot

#652 ( 19-25 April 2013 )
Why religious riots in India fanned by the BJP are remembered and those provoked by the Congress aren’t

Eye for an eye

#647 ( 15-21 March 2013 )
The protests in Dhaka’s Shahbag Square mark the appropriation of non-violence as a strategy to achieve a violent goal

Suicide burner

#644 ( 22-28 February 2013 )
The self-immolator and the suicide bomber both believe death is the only recourse left to secure justice

No moral high ground

#643 ( 15-21 February 2013 )
India’s execution of Afzal Guru will prompt its neighbours to sneer and call it hypocritical

India’s gender insurrection

#639 ( 18-24 January 2013 )
Liberalism is a mask worn to conceal the deeply ingrained conservative values small town India secretly nurtures

India's gender insurrection

#638 ( 11-17 January 2013 )
Liberalism is a mask worn to conceal the deeply ingrained conservative values small town India secretly nurtures
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