Cover Story

Endgame
Devastated lives
Damning indictment
Why LTTE failed
Realities of war
Timeline
India's role
Election fodder in Tamil Nadu
Deploying the diaspora

Focus: Education in Mysore
Hub of learning

World Affairs
South Africa: Zuma's burden
U.N. conference against racism
Fiji: Crisis island
Thailand: Power play
Summit of the Americas

Photography
The art of Marc Riboud

Essay
Independent voices

Science
Discovery of a new particle

Cinema

Animated Ramayana

The States
Eviction of Chennai's slum-dwellers

General Election

Halfway and hung
Tamil Nadu: Burning issues
Puducherry: Tight race
West Bengal: Maoist threat
Delhi: A new issue
Himachal Pradesh: Uphill task for Congress
Uttar Pradesh: Twists and turns
Bihar: Signs of a shift
Uttarakhand: BSP factor
Punjab: Patriarchy versus royalty
Jammu and Kashmir: In boycott mode

Column
C.P. Chandrasekhar: Tainted money
Bhaskar Ghose: Danger within
R.K. Raghavan: A model judge
Praful Bidwai: Isolating the BJP
Jayati Ghosh: Farmers' fury

Books
Unity hymns
review by Pushpa Surendra
Colonial liaisons
review by Jasodhara Bagchi
Mirror to media
review by A.G. Noorani