Cover Story

Telangana turmoil
Tales of expediency
Plank of self-respect
Return of the students
Telangana: Victim of history
Waiting for development
Political mess
Echoes elsewhere
Reorganisation, then and now

Jammu & Kashmir
Shadow on talks
Interview: Shabir Ahmad Shah, Democratic Freedom Party

Nuclear Issues
Kaiga: Misplaced trust

Interview
Anil Kakodkar, former Chairman, AEC
Joan Mencher, anthropologist

Sri Lanka
Fonseka: Embattled general
Minority dilemma

World Affairs
Afghanistan: Desperate surge
War fatigue in the U.S.
The Philippines: Martial law memories
Honduras: Election farce
Open source worries
© New York Times News Service

Environment

Concerns about Cauvery forests

Astronomy
Annular solar eclipse

Gender Issues
Interview: Priya Babu, transgender activist

Focus: TIFR in Bhabha Birth Centenary Year
A base for progress

Recession

Dubai slips
Fear and hope
Built on illusion

Column
Praful Bidwai: Lessons from Kaiga
R.K. Raghavan: Limits to death penalty
Bhaskar Ghose: Voluntary service

Update
"Culture shock" in France
© Guardian News & Media 2009
In league with Iran baiters
Action taken

Books
Logic of reservation
review by V. Venkatesan
Forgotten people
review by A.G. Noorani
Circular reasoning
review by T. Jayaraman
U.S. & Kashmir
review by A.G. Noorani