Cover Story

Adrift and listless
The economy: Free right turn
Infrastructure: Miles to go
Interview: Aruna Roy
Internal security: Strategic blunders
Foreign policy: Unipolar dilemmas

Disaster
Tragic touchdown
Runway overrun

Politics
Nitin Gadkari: Faltering first steps

Agriculture
Food or alcohol?

World Affairs

Thailand: Final assault
The military route
India & Japan: Quiet approach
South Africa: Cup that cheers?
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Archaeology

The rise and fall of a Harappan city
Inscriptions on stone and wood
Cist burial

Spotlight
Assam Rifles

Reports
ILO on child labour

The Judiciary
Bringing clarity on reservations
In public interest

Sri Lanka
A year later

Focus: Education in Mysore
Center of learning

Science & Technology

Now, a synthetic cell

Column
Praful Bidwai: Questionable link
Jayati Ghosh: Regulation is in
R.K. Raghavan: Crime calculations

Update
Ageing Germany
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Books
Media Spin
review by John Cherian
Poignant notes
review by Partha Chatterjee
Dissent & Dreyfus
review by A.G. Noorani
U.S. power play
In search of truth
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