‘The Morale Of The Mumbai Police Was Down’
Defending his committee’s 26/11 report, RD Pradhan tells RANA AYYUB why it nailed the police chief but absolved the larger police force

‘Youngistan’ Politics
A youth revolution only for the scions of political dynasties is a hollow one
VANI TRIPATHI

Fading Crimson Flaming Anger
The desperate battle for Lalgarh might recapture land for the Left, but the hearts and minds of its denizens are lost to them. SHANTANU GUHA RAY reports from the battle zone

‘Rural Bengal Is Still Our Strength’
CPM State Secretary Biman Bose admits that Lalgarh is a problem, but claims that the Left Front’s rural base is still strong

‘Bengal Is In A State Of Turmoil’
Mamata Banerjee says the Left Front’s misrule created the Lalgarh problem

A Strange And Bitter Crop
An ambitious RSS social engineering project is transporting children from Meghalaya to Karnataka to bring them up ‘the Hindu way,’ discovers SANJANA. Photographs by S RADHAKRISHNA

‘The Children Will Champion Hinduism’
At the Kalyan Ashram in Shillong, Prafulla Chandra Koch and Sukanto Borman, two RSS workers, talked with TEHELKA about what the RSS hopes to gain through the programme. Both refused to be photographed.

‘I Begged Them For My Son’s Number’
She believed the RSS when they said a better future awaited Iohi but didn’t have the money to bring him back

‘Confusion Over Hindutva Cost The BJP’
NDA convener Sharad Yadav tells NEHA DIXIT that the the BJP must shoulder the greater portion of the blame for the poll debacle

Bringing Out The Dead
Only dalits wield the scalpel in Tamil Nadu’s mortuaries. Successive generations work in sordid conditions and see no way out, finds PC VINOJ KUMAR

Numbness Of Death
Muniyamma has dissected over a thousand bodies. She speaks to PC VINOJ KUMAR

The Chase For The Invisible Man
After 30 years, Paresh Baruah is still the only ULFA leader never to be caught. TERESA REHMAN reports

‘If He’s In China Now, Assam Will Burn Again’
Sunil Nath, former publicity secretary of the ULFA speaks exclusively to TERESA REHMAN about the outfit’s elusive chief

A Million Mutinies Within
To Kashmir, Chhattisgarh, Manipur and Nagaland, we can now add Lalgarh
ADITYA NIGAM
Academic