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October 2012
The Growing Tuberculosis Threat
Can India control drug-resistant tuberculosis?
Prayaag Akbar
See Under: Gaffe
Breaking the Silence
Bombay Death City
A Return to the Black Hole
The Lede
Law
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The Lede
A battle over copyright unfolds around one man and his shop
Manas Roshan
Arts
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The Lede
A taxi driver and his passion for a 16th-century performance form
Minu Ittyipe
Film
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The Lede
A man’s crusade to prevent Telugu film songs from fading into obscurity
GBSNP Varma
Arts
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The Lede
A French photographer in the living rooms of Chandigarh
Jyothi Natarajan
Perspectives
Politics
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List
A guide to the jargon and minutiae of a US presidential election
Jonathan Shainin
Government
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Commentary
What if the Indian state is actually not big enough?
Milan Vaishnav
Law
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Commentary
Lessons in how not to deal with online hate speech
Shivam Vij
Film
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Commentary
What Ek Tha Tiger means in relation to Salman Khan’s peculiar stardom
Shohini Ghosh
Reporting & Essays
Health
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Reportage
Can India control drug-resistant tuberculosis?
Prayaag Akbar
Caste
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Essay
Why we don’t talk about inequality—and how to start again
Pratap Bhanu Mehta
Business
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Profile
How a college-dropout pulled together India’s indie music scene
Aayush Soni
Film
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Photo Essay
A Russian director recreates a city for a film-and-method-acting-project about an anti-Stalinist Nobel Prize-winning quantum physicist with philandering issues
Sergey Maximshin
Books
History
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Books
In his most ambitious book yet, Partha Chatterjee discusses how imperialism laid the groundwork for norms and practices of governance that are still with us
Gyan Prakash
Environment
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Books
Two new books offer comprehensive critiques of current patterns of development and share encouraging stories about sustainable ecological methods
Meera Subramaniam
Editor's Corner
Government
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editor's pick
The New Old Bihar
Anant Nath
Arts
Arts
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Essay
Demonic Resurrection and the cult of Indian death metal
Michael Edison Hayden
Fiction & Poetry
Storm
Attia Hosain
Five Poems: String, Pebbles, Laughter, Eyes and Each Time
Hutashan Vajpeyi
Letters from
Conflict
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The Lede
The devastating economic crisis has turned Greece into a menacing place for immigrants
Joanna Kakissis
Conflict
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The Lede
Residents of Bogotá resist the urban renewal projects that displaced them from their homes
Federico Perez