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FEBRUARY 2010

Cover Story & Featured Stories

"There is no Constitution in Chhattisgarh anymore"

Anybody can be picked up, branded as Maoist and jailed, beaten up, smashed, charged with dubious cases, ordinary people are killed, tribal women get raped and assaulted.....
Harsh Dobhal Dantewada/Delhi

The idea of Injustice

Every word in this cover story is stretching the threshold of disbelief, desperately seeking the wisdom of a constitutional democracy, subverted by those who are extracting the final juices of democracy
Amit Sengupta Delhi

Judgement Day

Haunted by scams, absolute lack of transparency and accountability, and a pronounced anti-poor stance, it’s time to open the tightly shut windows of the higher judiciary in India
Prashant Bhushan Delhi

Kalyug: Descent into darkness

Between democracy and darkness stands the judiciary. It stands heads and shoulders above the judicial systems in Asia. But it is in rapid decline. Ahead is pitch darkness
Colin Gonsalves Delhi

The other Ruchikas

The revelations of Ruchika Girhotra’s case left the entire nation shocked.
Akash Bisht Delhi

Chronicle of a murder foretold

It took 25 years to register a case against Congress politician, Sajjan Kumar, widely accused to be the leader of a mob in west Delhi which burnt, looted, raped and killed Sikhs
Amit Sengupta Delhi

Not easy for women in a Police Station

If educated women or those from influential families find it difficult to engage with the police, what can poor women in the margins do?
Sumiran Preet Kaur Delhi

The Hashimpura massacre

So what about justice for 42 Muslims killed in Hashimpura by the PAC — 22 years ago?
Akash Bisht Delhi

Picked up randomly, tortured, branded terrorist, acquitted with no evidence...

In many cases, the people are picked up off the streets with no explanation for their arrest. Numerous experiences testify to this illegal detention
Harsh Dobhal Delhi

Now, a farmers’ suicide SENSEX

Nearly 2 lakh farmers committed suicide in India since 1997. The share of big five states accounted for 1,22,823 suicides in this 12 year period
Sadiq Naqvi Delhi

More Stories from this Issue

Hardnews Exclusive: Opium of the rich

There is a mountain of historical evidence to prove that the ballooning opium production and trade in Afghanistan is not possible without support of the Americans and the British
Sanjay Kapoor Delhi

All Izz Well

What’s added to the fun is the filmmakers have taken all the Bollywood clichés and turned them around just as their 3 idiots would
Sonali Ghosh Sen Delhi

Editors Guilt

Sanjay Kapoor

It is a touch funny to see many media professionals expressing righteous indignation over how politicians and political parties bought editorial space during the last general elections.

Berlinale Sublime

Mehru Jaffer

This February sees Berlin beautifying itself with an abandon that can only be described as unabashed.

Fog

Amit Sengupta

The Hitchcockian fog in Delhi carried the moist midnight north wind from the mountains and the cinematic night unfolded without a sense of mystery.

“I call IRAN a short-term society”

Homa Katouzian, 67, author of The Persians, says that to know Iran is to see the land and its people from an Iranian perspective.
Mehru Jaffer Vienna

This sun refuses to set

Never reconciled, in their loved land, born from the pangs of history, the Telangana movement resurrects in the hearts of young students like fire and fury, waiting to become rivers of self-respect and equality. Will it, this time?
Manjusha Madhu Hyderabad

Karzai’s Kickback

Organised corruption, drug-trafficking, warlords and terrorism. And the most corrupt are those responsible for upholding law and order
Mehru Jaffer Vienna

A document of hope

Editorial: February

No IPL angst for this dolphin

Beena Sarwar

Out on a fishing boat under a clear blue early morning sky to go dolphin watching, the violence, squabbles and tensions that mark daily life fade into irrelevance - including the recent tensions ar

AUSTRALIAR?

Rupa Gulab

I woke up screaming this morning.

WHAT’S IN THE STARS?

When it comes to the idea of the ‘nation’ Bollywood is obsessed with candyfloss solutions, wrapped in melodrama: we are one happy, diverse but hierarchical family
Karen Gabriel Delhi