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DECEMBER 2009

Cover Story & Featured Stories

Abu Dhabi throws a lifeline to sinking Dubai

The UAE’s best laid plans, however, could come under pressure if Dubai’s debt proves to be heavier than it is being made out to be
Sanjay Kapoor Dubai

Insomnia stalks kingdom of dreams

If Abu Dhabi and the West do not refuel Dubai, the big casualty would be millions of workers from South Asia who see this desert city state as a profitable getaway
PN Gupta Dubai

Money mirage

The Dubai bust should hold a lesson for all our leaders. Money doesn’t grow in deserts. You can only build an economy the old fashioned way. That is, by saving and investing in industrialisation
Mohan Guruswamy Dubai

No way to bridge this Gulf

Migrant workers from India are going to be hit real hard by the Dubai debacle
Sumiran Preet Kaur Delhi

More Stories from this Issue

Unanswered questions still haunt

Sanjay Kapoor

The manner in which the first anniversary of the 26/11 terror attack in Mumbai is being observed has the makings of the theatre of the absurd.

May ’68 arrives in Austria

Mehru Jaffer

After having changed the world with its boundless creativity and inventions in the past few centuries, Europe seems in slumber today.

BLOODLESS, and BLOODY

When the history of terrorism in modern India will be written, the Babri Masjid demolition should be marked as a watershed
Rakhi Chakrabarty Delhi

Mulayam’s Kalyan

Wooing back the Muslims in UP will be tough for Mulayam Singh Yadav
Pradeep Kapoor Lucknow

Lethal MINES

How far the lethal combination of money power and political shrewdness will take the Bellary Reddys is worth watching, especially, after the brothers lost their biggest patron, YS Rajasekhara Reddy
Girish Nikam Delhi/Bangalore

Forget the king, make a MONUMENT

Shivaji is a monument in Maharashtra today. But what of the men who engage with this monument through their life’s experience? And, what of their ballads?
Aritra Bhattacharya Mumbai

Ghosts in their cupboards

The right to information campaign has unnerved the local bureaucracy in India. No wonder, they are hatching dubious conspiracies to block the dogged ghostbusters
Sadiq Naqvi Delhi

Legacy of Thackeray Raj

Rupa Gulab

Ah, if only Shakespeare were alive today.

The curse of living in ‘interesting times’

Beena Sarwar

Visiting newspaper offices in Sweden some years ago, I was struck by the relative ease and routine manner in which journalists obtained information.

A lot of Bull

Until the government forgets about maintaining the high Sensex levels, it’s nearly impossible to check frauds. The Market and the government work in tandem to help each other’s interests
Akash Bisht Delhi

Steely resolve

Even as the government flexes muscle, villagers are refusing to give their land to the multinational steel giant
Satya Sivaraman Dhinkia, Jagatsinghpur (Orissa)

Taking Muslims backward

Muslims would have rejoiced if the Jamiat had campaigned for establishing first-rate modern schools in Muslim neighbourhoods. Instead, they sought to obstruct even the feeble attempts of the government to modernise thousands of madrasas
Arshad Alam Delhi

The Question of the Gun

That’s the dark irony: you can leave Kashmir, but Kashmir never leaves you
Majid Maqbool Delhi

‘Try to live with as less as possible’

A French photographer flies on hot air balloons and records how a ravaged planet called earth prepares for apocalypse now!
Sumiran Preet Kaur Delhi

Break on through to the other side

The writings are full of passion. There is a poet that runs through his prose and it lifts the ordinary to a level where it becomes the subject of admiration or plain gaze
Sanjay Kapoor Delhi