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December 2010

River Deep Mountain High

Forty-five years ago, a joint Indo-US espionage mission lost five kilograms of plutonium in the Himalayas. It’s still missing—but the government has decided to ignore the ongoing threat.

Vinod K Jose


Hard Road to Travel

Two Lives

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  • Perspectives

    • History / Commentary Can the world’s democracies actually bring change to Burma? Mira Kamdar
    • Government / Commentary Although the main accused, Union Minister A Raja, has grudgingly stepped down, the country’s biggest-ever politics-business corruption scandal is yet to play itself out Paranjoy Guha Thakurta
    • Politics / Commentary The Obama visit has put US-India relations back on the right foot—much to Pakistan’s dismay Christophe Jaffrelot
    • Religion / Commentary Has the burqa become a Che Guevara-like symbol: separated from its religious meaning and co-opted into a popular cultural narrative? Ferzina Banaji
  • Reporting & Essays

    • Security / Reportage Forty-five years ago, a joint Indo-US espionage mission lost five kilograms of plutonium in the Himalayas. It’s still missing—but the government has decided to ignore the ongoing threat. Vinod K Jose
    • Labour / Reportage Twenty million Mumbaikars depend on the services of 600,000 auto-rickshaw drivers most of them migrants, who lives in a different Mumbai. Here’s a map. Chandrahas Choudhury
    • Communities / Reportage The following text from Dubai: Gilded Cage, by SYED ALI, is excerpted with permission from Orient BlackSwan. The book will be released in India in late December. Syed Ali
    • Hydropower, organic agriculture and ecotourism: Sikkim is marketing itself as a ‘green’ Himalayan state. But what are the consequences? Jacob Resneck
  • Books

    • Law / Books Two memoirs that sow some life into the parched landscape that is Indian autobiography TJS George
    • Literature / Books Two cheers to the Nobel committee for awarding this year’s prize for literature to the Peruvian writer Arul Mani
  • Editor's Corner

    • Politics / editor's pick Political Ideals of Convenience Sumati
  • Arts

    • Media / Essay Tracing the journey of Indian advertising Debraj Mookerjee
    • Arts / Essay A group of urban musicians comes together to immortalise a legendary Sikh Dalit farmer’s songs of rebellion Margot Bigg
    • Arts / Essay While the engagement with wide-ranging themes creates multiple dimensions for viewing the works, it diffuses the political framework within which the exhibition defines itself Sonam Joshi
  • Fiction & Poetry

    • Invitation Shehryar Fazli
    • Anhad Garjé Hoshang Merchant
  • Letters from

    • Politics / The Lede Seven years after the American invasion, Iraq’s Kurds have weathered an influx of Arabs and Turks and established an enclave of prosperity Graeme Wood
    • Crime / The Lede As Mexico is torn apart by an escalating drug war, one rural area has resisted the surge of violence—thanks to its volunteer police force David Martinez
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