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25 - 31 May 2011 | Vol 03 | Issue 08

Marketing Brand Rahul

At a time when most of his generation are busy being part of an emerging India of urban prosperity, he has become the voice of the rural poor.

Not so long ago, he was a mascot of the youth. Now he wants to be seen as the voice of the aam aadmi. Great branding it may be, but success is harder fought

BY Jatin Gandhi

SEE SMALL WORLD

Buddha to Stay and Battle with Karat

It’s all set for a showdown at Hyderabad on 11 June

BYDhirendra K Jha

Southern Discomfort

Trouble brews for the Congress in the south

BYShahina KK

Exorcising the Ghost of Geronimo

More than the sobering effect an ill-advised codename had on Americans, it was a reminder of the country’s own historical injustices

BYShougat Dasgupta

Heir Apparent

Novak Djokovic is throwing a serious challenge to not just his court adversaries but also tennis historians trying to assess his place in the game’s Hall of Fame

BYAkshay Sawai

First, the Cause

How a bold new venture hopes to shake things up in the movie financing business by focusing exclusively on social themes that can work at the box office

BYRahul Bhatia

A Cut above Modern Medicine

A coin, a blade, and in the balance, life. How dais can teach modern medicine a thing or two

BYAtiya Hussain

A Woman in Bangladesh

I only saw men wherever I went, and every young man was a hopeless romantic

BYWei Fen Lee

Roti, Kapda Aur Porn

As 3G rollouts in other countries show, adult content is definitely a big driver of consumption

BYAdam Matthews

Why Ranbir Won’t Act with Farhan

Why Ranbir Won’t Act with Farhan • Look Who’s Getting Back Together • As Unprofessional As Ever

BYRajeev Masand

Of Scrubs and Girls

Still new to the West, Atreyee Majumder wonders what it is that so affects her when a maid bends under her chair at home in India to scrub out a speck of dust, while a janitor in uniform evokes no feeling at all

BYAtreyee Majumder

Another Coalition Migraine

The Congress and NCP are at loggerheads again, but a split is unlikely

BYHaima Deshpande

Goa and the Filmmaker

Dil Chahta Hai to Dum Maro Dum marks a decade of the Goa film. Yet, has the state really found a chronicler of its true story?

BYAjit Duara

Show Us the Evidence, Rahul

For a man who may soon lead the country, he still has to learn to think things through before he speaks

BYHartosh Singh Bal

‘India Botched Up Operation Purulia’

Peter Bleach breaks his long silence on the arms drop story. The official account has it otherwise.

BYSeema Mustafa

Books

The Guilty Pleasures of Rereading

Come on now, it’s never about the new meanings you grasp each time revisit a book. It’s the comfort of the same old story and the same old characters and the same old ending, every single time

BYArunava Sinha