Cover Story

Undying art
Colourful palette
Interview: Vivan Sundaram
Mural for TIFR
Hounded out
Barefoot artist

Education
Tamil Nadu: Judicial remedy
'Rolling back the wheel of history'

The States
West Bengal: Reprieve in the hills?

Terrorism
The Headley factor
Under siege
Journalist silenced

Legislation
A flawed Bill on communal violence
Cyber fears

World Affairs
Yemen on the brink of civil war
Shangri-La Dialogue: Power shift
Nuclear power: French advantage
Venezuela: Oil colonialism
Obama: Choosing slogans

Wildlife
Ranthambhore: On the tiger trail

Demography
Selective abortions

Focus: Mysore-Educational Hub
Centre of learning

Controversy
The Ramdev show: Proxy battles
Lucrative mix

Pre-modern project

Column
C.P. Chandrasekhar: Stalling regulation
Bhaskar Ghose: Collective madness
R.K. Raghavan: For humane prisons
Jayati Ghosh: IMF: More of the same

Books
Glimpses of Ray
review by Partha Chatterjee
Voices for freedom
review by Shelley Walia
Spreading hate
review by A.G. Noorani
Kissinger's China
review by A.G. Noorani

Also
Letters