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Subcontinental Shifts

Saturday 7 November '09

Five Queen’s Road Sorayya Khan Penguin Pages: 213 Rs 250
Eco Honours

Saturday 3 October '09

Three years ago, on September 24, 2006, as the weather turned dark, a helicopter went down in the hills of eastern Nepal...
Arzee, Everyman

Sunday 21 June '09

Profiles of Bombay’s rush and repose
Monk in waiting

Sunday 7 June '09

In a spacious room on the fourth floor of the Gyuto monastery in Sidhbari, a farming village near Dharamsala in Himachal Pradesh...
In pouring rain, South Africa lifts all clouds over its new President

Sunday 10 May '09

It was once the seat of apartheid, but today, when Pretoria held its presidential inauguration at the Union Buildings...
Kim’s New Game

Sunday 8 March '09

Kipling’s hero is all grown up and in a new India
The Delhi Spiral

Sunday 25 January '09

A reminder that the capital city was made for walking
The train from Deoband

Friday 7 November '08

The excitement and confusion at the platform in Deoband is usual. People scurry around looking for their coaches, some managing to hop on as the train pulls out...
‘The Tauqeer I knew couldn’t do this’

Saturday 27 September '08

Sitting in a tiny clinic under shelves lined with medicines for common colds to kamzori, Hakeem Shahid Badr Falahi listens attentively to people and scribbles them prescriptions.
Address in Azamgarh

Sunday 21 September '08

In the lanes of Sarai Meer in Uttar Pradesh’s Azamgarh district, anger and suspicion meet at crossroads where people gather and disown the town’s recently acquired terror tag.
The 3 friends: SP leader’s son, magistrate’s nephew, businessman’s son

Saturday 20 September '08

Ahmed’s son Saif was injured and arrested in the encounter in Delhi’s Jamia Nagar today while Saif’s roommate Atif was killed.
The 3 friends: SP leader’s son, magistrate’s nephew, businessman’s son

Saturday 20 September '08

Ahmed’s son Saif was injured and arrested in the encounter in Delhi’s Jamia Nagar today while Saif’s roommate Atif was killed.
What the world is reading

Monday 3 March '08

The race to the elections in the US is hogging headlines the world over but it’s time to turn the spotlight on the other former superpower, Russia.
Bambai LIFELINE

Sunday 17 February '08

Some will get Rs 50, some 500, some a thousand but everyone will get something, they say. With this assurance, and despite the politics over their presence in the country’s financial capital, North Indians leave for Mumbai in droves. The Sunday Express shares a train journey of hope from Gorakhpur with them
A HEAD for tales

Sunday 2 September '07

Parlaying real life into reel tales, Jaideep Sahni, self-taught scriptwriter of Company, Khosla Ka Ghosla and Chak De India, has shown Bollywood what it takes to get one’s lines right. His next test: Madhuri’s comeback film Aaja Nachle
And the RNG Excellence in Journalism Awards went to...

Tuesday 17 July '07

In Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, an AIDS orphan tells his story in his own words; in Kashmir, earthquake victims struggle to rebuild their lives and elsewhere...
Inside the Dera

Sunday 20 May '07

It does not promote a religion, its adherents drop their surnames, rich agricultural lands finance its welfare activities and its Guru is a cricket enthusiast. Our correspondent visits the Dera Sacha Sauda to find out the truth
At Sirsa base, Dera chief says ready to talk, end crisis

Friday 18 May '07

Saying there was no question of apologising to the Akal Takht since he had “not tried to emulate” Guru Gobind Singh, Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh
In wood age

Sunday 29 April '07

Finland’s second oldest town, Porvoo, has risen from ashes many times, only to go back to building its houses with wood
Crux of democracy is governance through discussion, says Amartya

Wednesday 20 December '06

In repressed countries people advocating democracy often act against their self-interest, with a sense of real honesty.
These Ways of Seeing

Sunday 5 November '06

September 11, 2001 brought into focus the motivations of extremist religious ideology.
He Said, Write

Sunday 25 June '06

Even without its amazing backstory, Baby Halder’s book is worth a read
16 stories that needed excellence and how they got it

Thursday 13 April '06

As leaders and policy-makers from various fields watched, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today gave away the first Ramnath Goenka Awards for Excellence in Journalism, the biggest media awards in India.
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