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Date: Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 3:01 PM
Subject: July issue of Hardnews live and available on stands near you
To: editors <editors@hardnewsmedia.com>

 

 

Dear contributors and friends,

 

The July issue of Hardnews is live and available on stands. Please visit www.hardnewsmedia.com for details and http://www.hardnewsmedia.com/2007/10/1426 for where the magazine is available.

 

The website is being updated regularly and now includes more than the print version.

 

 

 

Cover Story: RethinK Rain

Even if the monsoon defeats India, it comes as celebration. As it arrives, always following infinite physical suffering of a hard summer, we have no choice but to rejoice. Like our fragmented democracy, it's a no choice option

 

Cover story includes:

 

MAXIMUM MAGIC by Ratna Raman in Delhi

Catharsis, Aristotle's word. It liberates from the relentless heat, cleanses, purges and catalyses. Floodgates, literal and metaphorical, are opened  

OH HUMIDITY by Amit Sengupta in Kolkata

In a defeated red bastion, Maradona's blue flag flies like hope

Wet Saree by Rupa Gulab inMumbai

The anxious ones desperately checked if the clouds were cumulus or nimbus and if they can become giant cumulonimbus clouds that bring wonderful thunderstorms

Sandstorm Tango by Rahul Ghai Bikaner

Oh rain, bless the Thar desert this time

KALMADI'S CURSE by Sadiq Naqvi in Delhi

Delhi has been dug up for the Commonwealth Games. With heavy rains, it all might get real messy

GOOD EARTH by Shaweta Anand in Delhi

If the earth is parched and thirsty, don't blame the rains

Kosi's Kiss Dinesh Kumar Mishra in Patna

For decades, monsoons have almost always meant apocalypse now for the people of Bihar, while an inefficient and corrupt state machinery counts the cash

Frog couple by Shaweta Anand

There are all kinds of rain-spells Indians are known to cast. From worshipping frogs, to marrying off donkeys, we have done it all

 

The magazine also includes:

 

Reddys run Amok by Sanjay Kapoor in Bangalore

The BJP's Bellary mining mafia in Karnataka, brazenly violating every law of the land, loots and plunders the nation's natural resources, while the government plays accomplice or blind

Bhopal Gas Tragedy Part II by Sanjay Kapoor in Delhi

Barack Obama's aggression against British Petroleum over the spillage of oil in Gulf of Mexico, forcing it to create $20 billion for environmental damage, builds a disturbing contrast with the servile Indian response on Bhopal

Midnight's MIC by MR Sivaraman in Chennai

Amidst the Bhopal gas tragedy, a former bureaucrat recalls the night of horror and how individuals staked everything to save the lives of others

Start another Caravanby  Shaweta Anand in Aligarh

Fifty-five women from 12 states left home for 20 days to hit the streets through 20,000km in this scorching heat across 60 towns to push the  Women's Reservation Bill  

Forest in a rat trap by Akash Bisht in Chilla/Rishikesh

Trapped from all sides by expanding towns, heavy traffic highways and railway tracks, mining and poaching, can the precious little strip of Rajaji National Park save its tigers?

Bite it by Ratna Raman

The mango must be approached with the reverence due to a fruit with a hallowed genealogy. Eating a mango calls for rituals comparable to the savouring of fine wines at a tasting event

Shadow of the Enemy by Shrinivasrao Sohoni in Kabul

There are murmurs about outbreak of civil war in Afghanistan, if the withdrawal of international forces leads to domination by Pakistan

 'CWG will change Delhi in a jiffy'

Sheila Dikshit speaks to Hardnews in an exclusive interview

 

 

Among many others.  

 

+ Columns by Amit Sengupta, Sanjay Kapoor, Beena Sarwar, Rupa Gulab and Mehru Jaffer.

 

+ Exclusive articles by Le Monde Diplomatique, France

 

Please subscribe the all new digital edition of Hardnews for a discounted price of RS 100 for Indians and $ 10 for all others.

 

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