Cover Story

Reservation debate
Southern record
Political consensus
Legal backing
Logical step

Assembly Elections
Tamil Nadu: The big fight
Two promises and an opportunity
Pondicherry: On a hat-trick
Kerala: Keen tussle
West Bengal: Set for sweep

Terrorism
With a plot from Bangladesh
Terror in Karachi
Right vs Right

World Affairs
Exit Berlusconi
Manager of politics
Iran: Nuclear row
War rehearsal
American tragedy in Iraq
Uranium deal in the East
Left surge in Peru

Land & People
Across Kutch

Music
From records to disc

Parliament
On office of profit and disqualification

Development Issues
Fruits of unrest in Assam

Obituary
Rajkumar
Violent farewell

Gender Issues
First blow to sex selection

Conservation
Jail for Salman Khan

Sardar Sarovar Project

Drowned in politics
History of the dam
Law and reality

Nepal

King-size crisis

Column
C.P. Chandrasekhar: Driven by debts
R.K. Raghavan: Policing the U.K.
Bhaskar Ghose: More displaced than others
Praful Bidwai: Neoliberal assault on rights
Jayati Ghosh: Protecting foreign investors

Update
A climbdown in France
© Guardian Newspapers Ltd 2006

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