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• A matter of shame
• Delhi neither safe nor secure for women

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AUGUST 2010

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Every murder comes back

With Amit Shah's arrest, horror stories of the political and police mafia in Gujarat, are spilling over
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Every tiger, nation's conscience

India is home to the largest number of wild tigers in the world. If the tiger has to survive it has to be in India. Hardnews joins the campaign to protect the most magnificent and majestic creature in the animal kingdom. See coming issues for more on tigers and on the spot reports from tiger reserves.

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Defang ideologies of hate

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Modi's method

After the genocide in 2002 and a string of fake encounters targeting Muslims, the 'Hindutva lab' is again active. Now, secular social activists are being branded as Maoists and jailed
Sadiq Naqvi Delhi

Made in India

Pushing public health to life-threatening dangers, substandard drugs are flooding the Indian market
Akash Bisht Delhi

Omar fails the test

Though Kashmiri youth have preferred stones to vent their desperation till now, it may not take them too long to take a different recourse if the democratic space continues to shrink
Iftikhar Gilani Delhi

A House for Mr T-12

So why did the Rajasthan forest department shift a 'wrong' tiger to the Sariska Tiger Reserve, endangering the animal, destroying the 'social structure' of both the reserves, and perhaps betraying the original experiment of tiger conservation?
Akash Bisht Delhi

Partition of the mind

First, we constructed barbed wires. Now we are manufacturing bad faith, alienating the minorities, attacking the secular soul across the borders. It's time we heal wounds. Give peace and justice a chance
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Why Kashmir Burns

It's our inability to talk about Kashmir outside the framework set by popular media, government propaganda and the rhetoric of nationalism, that fails us in the eyes of Kashmir today
Smita Singh Bangalore/ Srinagar

CWG in a dock

Despite OC's repeated denials, the games are in murky waters
Sadiq Naqvi and Akash Bisht Delhi

Leaves and Barbed Wires

In an eerie recall, we reproduce this article published in Hardnews in November 2008. In Kashmir, this was like being breathless and still before the storm; almost everything remains unchanged, only the names have changed
Amit Sengupta Srinagar

Hindutva terror Lies and deception

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Next time for Africa

African footballers are jazz musicians, they play by ear. They don't need a written score, just the array of chord progressions and scale they are born with
Hartman De Souza Pune

Anti-clockwise, once again

Tired of warmongering and bloody terrorism, the people of India and Pakistan want authentic peace. Yet, every time there is a possibility of peace, the hawks on both sides manufacture an inevitable disaster
Sanjay Kapoor Islamabad (Pakistan)

Song of the road

Rafi and others continue to heal the wounds across the borders and revive the old romance
Javed Naqvi Delhi

Nothing to worry says Dikshit

Sheila Dikshit is confident that the city will be ready by August 31 and the legacy of the CWG will be a source of envy for the world. However, there are questions of what will happen to these multi-million dollar stadia once the games get over
Sadiq Naqvi Delhi

Who pulled the trigger on Hemant Karkare?

Whose bullets killed the Maharashtra ATS chief and Inspector Vijay Salaskar, if they were not that of Kasab and Ismail? Was there some other sinister force out to eliminate Karkare and stop him at all costs? And how come Karkare's line of investigations has finally opened up the terrorist can of Hidutva outfits that triggered bomb blasts across the country?
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