Cover Story

System failure
Fall of an icon
The Maytas twins
Probing questions
Off SEBI hook?
Dubious model
Fraud and the law
Pliant systems
Surge and shock
Hall of shame international

Sri Lanka
Stranded in Wanni

West Asia
A pause in genocide

Rehabilitation
Homeless on the coast
Relief and bias

Events
SAHMAT at 20

The Judiciary
Case for a council to choose judges

World Affairs
Policing the Malacca Straits
Gas war in Europe
United States' Afghan policy

Art
Rock paintings under attack

Essay
What India is up against

Focus: Haryana
Interview: Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda

Focus: DRDO
Missile shield

Obituary
Tapan Sinha

Oil Sector
Fuelling a crisis

Achievements in the past year
Interview: S. Ramakrishnan, Director General, C-DAC

Terrorism

Malegaon: A Hindutva network

Column
Jayati Ghosh: Pedestrians in peril
Bhaskar Ghose: Tragic irrelevance
R.K. Raghavan: Funding terrorism
Praful Bidwai: Sleaze India Inc

Books
Roots of conflict
review by A.G. Noorani
Of human bondage
review by Shelley Walia
Mired in mediocrity
review by Partha Chatterjee

Also
The English Language
Letters