Cover Story

Identity concerns
Interview: R.S. Sharma, Director-General and Mission Director, UIDAI
Parties in confusion
A case for privacy
PDS in peril
False promises on health services
Enrolment saga
How reliable is UID?
Interview: Dr Edgar Whitley, London School of Economics
Tool of exclusion from NREGS

The States
West Bengal: Rift in the foothills
Kerala: Government hanging by a thread
Prisoners & precedents

Telecom Scam
Radia shuts shop

Scandal
Cricketers in jail

India & Pakistan
MFN status: Ignorance rules
Political test for Imran
The real barrier
Interview: Union Commerce Secretary Rahul Khullar

World Affairs
Julian Assange: Travails of a crusader
Kyrgyzstan: Towards democracy
UNESCO: Vote for Palestine

Natural Science
Fungus farmers

Media

Reforming the Press Council
U.K.: Newspapers' code of practice

Public Health
Karnataka: Child malnutrition

Focus: Forts of Maharashtra
Majestic defences
Interview: Chhagan Bhujbal, State Tourism Minister

Controversy
Thermal power: Land grab projects?

Obituary

Bhupen Hazarika

Column
Bhaskar Ghose: The many Indias
Praful Bidwai: Kudankulam: Time to talk
R.K. Raghavan: Cricket & crime
C.P. Chandrasekhar: Pills, patents & profits

Update
Oppenheimers exit De Beers
Richard Wachman
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Books
States & the Union
review article by V. Venkatesan
Economics of caste
review by Raj Sekhar Basu Cricketing legend
review by R.K. Raghavan Electoral fraud
review by A.G. Noorani

Also
Letters
Response