| | | WORLD CUP Team India deserves the accolades, but crucial work awaits attention at the nation's cricketing vitals | | WORLD CUP The Power Play Overs The Indian PM's cricket diplomacy gambit has opened a window PRANAY SHARMA | WORLD CUP Lost In Trancenation Black humour alleviates rage as Pakistan copes with heartbreak MARIANA BAABAR |  OPINION Ground Realities The pitch beat all in flight and turn. But India had greater self-belief. SANJAY MANJREKAR |
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GUJARAT: MUSLIMS An Outlook investigation finds 'Vibrant Gujarat' has left the state's Muslims in an economic ghetto | |
CONTROVERSY: GANDHI BIOGRAPHY There was more complexity to the Mahatma than a simple reading of his correspondence would suggest | | AVIATION: FAKE PILOT SCAM A flying school-DGCA-airlines nexus clouds safety in our skies | |  OPINION Our disaster preparedness is woeful. Japan is a warning. | | INTEL AGENCIES: CORRUPTION The Centre plans a clean-up in tainted intel agency NTRO | |
ANDHRA: POLITICS Congress turns the I-T screws on rebel Jagan | | POLITICS: KERALA Old affairs haunt UDF, and LDF sees light | | THE SECRET DIARY OF A senior Sangh pracharak rang me up: "We must release cables sent from Ashoka Road to Nagpur on a variety of issues" | | PUNJAB: SOCIETY Panchayats are choosing to keep villages dry | |
SOCIETY: GUJJARS Some leaders of the community speak out against ostentation and dowry | | FOOD: TRENDS Indians moisten to the exquisite and various seductions of the chocolate | |  MIND YOUR BODY It's almost fashionable to talk about Vitamin D deficiency, a condition that afflicts the affluent. | | REVIEW Atiya Begum, aristocratic, cosmopolitan and educated, meant the world to a miserable Mohammed Iqbal | |
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| | | | | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 06, 2011 |  | | | | | LOK PAL The veteran activist and Gandhian takes the Prime Minister to task in his five-point letter, explaining once again why exactly he is on an indefinite fast at Jantar mantar. ANNA HAZARE | | FAQ Why is well-known Gandhian activist Anna Hazare on fast? What is the controversy over the Lokpal Bill? | DEBATE 17 reasons why the civil society version of the bill is better equipped to tackle corruption INDIA AGAINST CORRUPTION | | |
| | | | TUESDAY, APRIL 05, 2011 | | | | | |  COUNTERPOINT If the Gujarat Chief Minister wishes to have a realistic chance of becoming Prime Minister in 2014, he needs to ensure justice for the victims of the 2002 riots KARAN SHAH | | COMMENT Shahid Afridi's remarks against India and Indians are offensive, but we need not take umbrage at them. We need not even notice them. ROHIT MAHAJAN | | WORLD CUP CELEBRATIONS For millions of us, the 1983 win was — literally — a historic event. As a friend said, "I was getting sick of seeing those black and white pictures of Kapil Dev holding the Cup" MEGHNA MENON | | |
| | | MONDAY, APRIL 04, 2011 | | | | | | INDIA-PAKISTAN Is the real Afridi the one we are seeing now in Karachi and not the one we saw at Mohali? Is he recanting under pressure from the extremists? No matter what, it should not be allowed to vitiate the Mohali spirit B. RAMAN |  CORRUPTION Letters to the President and Prime Minister of India asking them to make inquiries and initiate steps for removal of Justice Balakrishnan on multiple charges of serious misconduct from the post of chairmanship of the NHRC PRASHANT BHUSHAN, CAMPAIGN FOR JUDICIAL ACCOUNTABILITY AND REFORMS | | ELECTION SPECIAL From soap operas to sop operas, the Tamil Nadu elections have it all, with independents joining the fray to beat the Dravidian parties at their own game. PUSHPA IYENGAR | | |
| | | SUNDAY, APRIL 03, 2011 | | | | | | WORLD CUP 2011 Team India! You made us all Team India-- whatever be our religion, our language, our age. Team India did not have just 11 players. It had over a billion. B. RAMAN | | WORLD CUP 2011 The intelligence and police of India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka deserve to be complimented for an incident-free world cup, but this is the time to remember that the octopus of jihadi extremism and terrorism is alive and kicking B. RAMAN | | |
| | | SATURDAY, APRIL 02, 2011 | | | | | FROM THE WIRES In the end Gautam Gambhir (97 and MS Dhoni (91*) made it look simple as they went about ensuring that India became the third team to win the World Cup twice | WORLD CUP This was Dhoni's job and Dhoni's stage. He didn't hide. He wasn't coy or fearful. He went in and simply did the job. ROHIT MAHAJAN |  INDIA V/S SRI LANKA Photographs for posterity, as a billion dreams came true in the triumph and the glory of the world cup win | SAMJHAUTA BLAST Assemanand's retraction of what of his 'confessional statement' raises fresh doubts about partisan political games B. RAMAN | | INDIA-PAKISTAN "...things remain. If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars." B. RAMAN | | |
| | | FRIDAY, APRIL 01, 2011 | | | | | |  INTERVENTION That Joseph Lelyveld's biography of Gandhi makes no statements of the kind which are attributed to it is immaterial. No civilised, democratic society can ban a book, however blasphemous or salacious. TRIDIP SUHRUD |  BYLANES When it comes to the universal and the local, we can broadly distinguish between two categories of people: there are ones who learn to pan the world and there are others who decide to dig a place deep SUGATA SRINIVASARAJU | | STATE SNIPPETS Is meeting Rajnikanth just a good luck charm for the DMK? Or do the party candidates feel he can use his "superhuman power" as demonstrated in Robot to tell the AIADMK to "mind it"? PUSHPA IYENGAR | | |
| | | THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 2011 | | | | | |  INDIA-PAKISTAN What one saw at Mohali was a refreshingly different approach to impart a strategic new dimension to the bilateral relations between the two countries B. RAMAN |  GOVERNANCE 'I am aware of the nervousness in some sections of the corporate sector arising out of some recent unfortunate developments. We stand committed to ensuring that our industry moves ahead with confidence and without fear or apprehension' MANMOHAN SINGH | | LIBYA In the volatile West Asia, successful intervention requires respect for Arab public opinion: being sensitive to local nuances and wary of attributing ideological coherence to a region in ongoing flux SHASHANK JOSHI |  VIEW FROM ISRAEL And now a law to punish any person or association publicly calling for a boycott of Israel – economic, academic or cultural URI AVNERY | | |
| | | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 2011 | | | | | FROM THE WIRES "Talks were positive. We discussed all the core issues between the two countries," said the Pakistan PM. FROM THE WIRES Four lives to Sachin, and yet only 260 runs for the team. But then Pakistan batting choked, taking India on to Mumbai to erase memories of 1996 and 2003... | INDO-PAK NIRUPAMA RAO 'It truly is cricket, to use that phrase. Sporting contacts epitomise in many senses the substance, the essence of people-to-people contact: it is about peace, it is about reconciliation, it is about healing wounds' MEDIA | TWITTER While the Indian and Pak PMs were conferring as their respective national teams battled it out for a spot in the finals, the J&K CM was busy commenting on the match OMAR ABDULLAH |  IN PICTURES Some of the photos of the Indo-Pak semi-finals and the post-win celebrations | | | |
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