Cover Story

Half a victory
Legal concerns
Interview: Arun Jaitley
Interview: Subhash Kashyap
Filling a vacuum
Interview: Arvind Kejriwal
Why have all in one Bill?
Interview: Prakash Karat
Fuzzy movement
Chasing a spectacle

Communalism
Narendra Modi's troubles

Food Security
Dividing the poor

World Affairs
Nepal: Tough agenda
Sri Lanka: End of emergency
Syria: Testing time
Somalia: Starving nation
Victims of Agent Orange
Lethal impact

Natural Science
Art and architecture of insects

Architecture
Royal portraits

Essay

Film censorship and the state

Spotlight
Memorial for Noor Inayat Khan

The States
Now Pashchimbanga

Science
The elusive `God particle'

Controversy
Rajiv assassination case: Reprieve from death

Libya

Profits of war

Column
C.P. Chandrasekhar: Beaten by inflation
Bhaskar Ghose: `Electoral' democracy
Praful Bidwai: Gandhian facade
R.K. Raghavan: Crime check
Jayati Ghosh: `Landgrab' overseas

Books
Law and graft
review by V. Venkatesan
The dead that walk
review by Shelley Walia
The human quest
review by Stuart Jeffries
War and politics
review article by A.G. Noorani