Cover Story

Mid-term worries
Interview: Prakash Karat
Uttarakhand: A tumble in the hills
Interview: Rajnath Singh
Paying the price in Punjab
Interview: Motilal Vora
Manipur: Consolation prize

Uttar Pradesh
Mulayam Singh's battles

Railway Budget
Feel-good train

Patent Issues

Batting for MNCs
Interview: Dr. Yusuf Hamied, chairman, Cipla Limited
Interview: Dilip G. Shah, secretary-general, Indian Pharmaceutical Alliance

World Affairs
Sri Lanka: In the cross hairs
Fear of abduction
Bangladesh: New player
Resurgent Taliban
Iraq: Oil for blood
China syndrome
Hell of another kind

Architecture
Bundelkhand's composite architecture

Public Health
Fragile mothers

Legislation
Self-help doubts

Environment
Polar bear on thin ice
© Guardian News & Media 2007

Nuclear Issues
Interview: Dr. Anil Kakodkar, Chairman, AEC

The Bofor's Case

Quattrocchi trail
Hurdles galore

Terrorism
Sanjay Dutt's case

Cricket
A different ball game

Column
Jayati Ghosh:
Short shrift to school education
Bhaskar Ghose:
The great Indian railway empire
Praful Bidwai: Cleaning up after Mashelkar
R.K. Raghavan:
Caught on the Net

Books
Deconstructing Hindutva
review by Ram Puniyani
Human rights in India
review by R.K. Raghavan
Not good history
review by A.G. Noorani
Ferment within

Also
The English Language
Letters