Vol. 4, Issue 5 May 2012
 
The Lede
On the Job
Foundations
Expressions
Sweet Ache
Letters From
Brazil, Jordan
Perspectives
Politics
A Paradigm Trap
Culture
Direct Message
Reporting & Essays
Reportage
The Takeover
Profile
The Outlier
Arts & Reviews
Art Review
The Revolution Will Be Sung
Art Review
Others Like Us
Books
Review
Light Show
Review
With Souls and Elbows
Editor's Notebook
Finally, A Principled Stand

In This Issue

Cover Story
In the Name of the Father
The will and the way of Jagan Mohan Reddy
SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY'S
LAST THROW OF THE DICE
BOLLYWOOD'S
TWITTER ESCAPADES
LISTENING IN TO THE
DALIT PROTEST MOVEMENT
This Issue's Contributors | E-Magazine | May 2012
 
The Lede
Foundations
In the green room with a beloved Bengaluru make-up artist
DEEPIKA ARWIND
Sweet Ache
An artist tests the limits of consumption
MEHBOOB JEELANI
Disco Dancing in Russia
A recent film festival evokes memories of a long intercontinental love affair
SONAL AGGARWAL
A Dental Bridge
An old occupation brings together generations of a Chinese immigrant family in Chennai
SARANYA CHAKRAPANI
Letters From
A Measured Spring
Everyone wants change in the Hashemite Kingdom, but no one wants to topple the king
MYA GUARNIERI
Receding
Deforestation had once been national policy, but farmers in the Amazon are now being asked to undo the damage
LORENZO MORALES
Perspectives
A Paradigm Trap
How busting the myths of non-alignment and autonomy can shed light on Indian foreign policy
SHASHANK JOSHI
Direct Message
Is Twitter changing the Hindi film industry’s long-held moral code?
SNIGDHA POONAM
Reporting & Essays
The Takeover
Armed with his father’s legacy and a politics made of promises, Jagan Mohan Reddy is determined to make history
PRAVEEN DONTHI
The Outlier
The inscrutable politics of Subramanian Swamy
SAMANTH SUBRAMANIAN
Parmesan Goes Indian
Tens of thousands of Sikh immigrants in Italy are helping keep alive the 800-year-old aristocrat of Italian cheeses.
MARCO GUALAZZINI / LUZPHOTO
Arts & Reviews
The Revolution Will Be Sung
The shifting sounds of the Dalit movement in Maharashtra
SALIL TRIPATHI
Others Like Us
Iran’s Oscar-winning film is not a ‘dirty picture’ of any one society
MICHAEL SNYDER
Fiction & Poetry
Ganga Building Chronicles
PRASAD SHETTY
Uttaraa: I. Life Sentences
KARTHIKA NAIR
Books
Light Show
A memoir of a remarkable life that disappointingly reveals less than it promises.
MANJULA PADMANABHAN
With Souls and Elbows
An evocation of the subcontinent’s past that avoids both elegy and melodrama
FAIZA S KHAN
Bookshelf
The Black Hole of Empire: History of a Global Practice of Power
The Chemistry of Tears
Beautiful Country
Tamarind City: Where Modern India Began
Breaking Out: An Indian Woman’s American Journey
Satantango László Krasznahorkai
A Life in Words: Memoirs
The Girl’s Guide To a Life in Science
Mumbai Noir
Tell Me a Story
The Showcase
Editor's Notebook
Finally, A Principled Stand ANANT NATH
 
 
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