Cover Story
Nepal rising
Interview: Baburam Bhattarai
Indian flip-flop
For lasting peace
A new equation

COMMUNALISM

Violence in Vadodara

DEFENCE

Ghosts of Kargil

TERRORISM
Taliban's target

SRI LANKA
Frayed truce

CAMPAIGNS
Social audit of employment guarantee

THE STATES
Pushed to the margins in Delh
Plight of bar girls

WORLD AFFAIRS
Palestine starving
China: Price of growth
Bretton Woods twins in trouble
Rumsfeld's ways

Essay
The imperial nuclear order

BIODIVERSITY
Breathing new life
Winged mystery

LIVELIHOOD ISSUES
Blood on silk
Coir workers of Kerala

ENVIRONMENT
A dam in Dandeli

PUBLIC HEALTH
Fears of polio revival

STOCK MARKET

IPO: A fraud exposed

JAMMU & KASHMIR
Terror on the mountains
Kashmir byelections
Interview: Ghulam Nabi Azad

OBITUARY
Pramod Mahajan
Fratricidal fire

Column
C.P. Chandrasekhar: Do missed WTO deadlines matter?
Jayati Ghosh: Guaranteeing work
R.K. Raghavan: Politics and police appointments
Praful Bidwai: People triumph in Nepal
Bhaskar Ghose: Writing for money

Update
Expressway cleared

Books
Learning, language and literacy
review by C.T. Kurien
Limits of privacy
review by A.G. Noorani
Orientalism and its discontents
review by Shelley Walia
Caroe's lessons
review by A.G. Noorani

Also
The English Language
Letters