Cover Story

At a crossroads
Khairlanjis of the past
Victims, still: Reports from States
Power brings death
Story of deprivation
A road-map for liberation
Power of touch

World Affairs

Fiji: Paradise lost
Silent spectators
Iraq: Sectarian divide
Palestine: Fragile ceasefire
Venezuela: Chavez wave
The U.S. & Latin America
Pakistan: Sex and the state

Architecture
Victorian grandeur of Mumbai's VT

Indology
A Tamil scholar from France
An ear to the ground

Communalism
A serial kidnapper and his 'mission'

Jammu & Kashmir
Treading through a minefield

The States
Assam: Politics of migration
Story of two orders
Maharashtra: Cotton crisis
Interview: Vijay Jawandhia, farm activist

Nuclear Issues

Shifting of goalposts

Essay
Latin America's electoral divides

Column
C.P. Chandrasekhar: Small miracle, big impact
Bhaskar Ghose: Communicating in English
R.K. Raghavan: A shot in the arm for the rule of law
Praful Bidwai: A real agenda for Dalit liberation
Jayati Ghosh: Branded education

Update
Twist in Zuma saga
Response to Sachar report

Books
Politics of 'hauntology'
review by Shelley Walia
Madras to Chennai
review by Theodore Baskaran
Altering history
review by A.G. Noorani
Kashmir: blunders of the past
review by A.G. Noorani

Also
The English Language
Letters