Cover Story: Its reality that's Bombed

 

Something Unusual...

It's reality that's BOMBED
Young men are picked up and kept as undertrials without evidence. There is nothing to prove that many of the ‘breakthroughs' that the police claims are genuine. A few more bombs would just tear the frayed fabric of this country
Sanjay Kapoor Delhi

Quiz Time: Spot the terrorist 

With the Centre flirting with the Narendra Modi model, don't rule out the possibility of bombs, masterminds and encounters fuzzing the distinction between ‘secular' and ‘communal' parties in the days to come
Hardnews Bureau Delhi

‘Bullet-proof jacket warns terrorists'
The convulated version of Delhi Police of the encounter at L-18 in Jamia Nagar
Akash Bisht Delhi

Something Unusual... 

Moments after, Hardnews found locals were convinced that it was a fake encounter
Akash Bisht / Khalid Akhtar Delhi

The Terrorist who was not a Terrorist 

Eyewitness account of a young boy picked up from his home in Jamia Nagar by the Special Cell
Amit Sengupta/Akash Bisht Delhi

TinderBox of HATRED 

With Hindutva forces unleashing organised violence, the tribal regions of Orissa are ready to explode
Bibhuti Pati Kandhamal

The Poison spreads 

Even while ‘secular' Congress and Janata Dal has chosen compulsive stasis, the Hindutva brigade has consolidated its moral vigilantism in Karnataka, the new hate lab after Gujarat
Girish Nikam Bangalore/Delhi

Yeh hai Bombay meri jaan... 

Even while the Congress-NCP and the media patronises Raj Thackeray, the RSS is trying to consolidate its base in the interiors, biding its time
Prabhat Sharan Mumbai