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Volume 7 Issue 3410 June – 16 June 2013

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Dear Editor 6History Mail Lord Byron to Francis Hodgson 9 Editorial

Let India follow Infosys… and

Murthy shows the way! 10Happenings

Bradley Manning Goes to Trial 12UP govt releases Nimesh Report 13Album

Small Talk: Syed Zaigham Imam 15

UNDERCOVERA whiff of social change 16Reading between the borders 16Myanmar moving! 17

COLUMNEast Asia’s lessons for Africa 18Joseph E. Stiglitz

FAR PAVILIONOttoman Pretensions? 20How does Recep Erdogan get

out of current abyss will define

if Turkey is capable of regional

leadership

SPECIAL REPORT Congress vs Congress 24Expect new and untested faces

as poll candidates

SPECIAL STORY 1 Realty trouble 28With three murders a day,

Bihar tops the country in land

dispute crimes

COVER STORY India's most disruptive

Trimurti 30Teesta Setalvad, Aruna Roy and

Arundhati Roy prove that Th e Road

to Hell is paved with noble intentions

SPECIAL STORY 2Raipur chaos 38Two weeks after the deadly

Maoist attack, the governments

remain confused and clueless

BUSINESSIt’s a new game! 41With huge accumulated losses,

life insurers are in a big mess.

Is there a way out?

LIFEDrop Anchor

Enchanted by India 47

ARTTypos 56Jungle Nights II

Movie Review 57Book Review 58

REAR WINDOWMorality and precious

stones 60India lacks a machinery that

can ensure inflow of ethically

mined diamonds

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EDITORIALeditor-in-chief: Arindam Chaudhurieditor: A. Sandeepmanaging editor: Sutanu Guruchief executive officer: Deepak Kaisthaexecutive editors: Ranjit Bhushan, Saibal Chatterjeeconsulting editor: Seema Mustafaeditor economic affairs: Prasoon Majumdarfeatures editor: Prashanto Banerjipolitical editor: Pramod Kumarassociate editor: Puja Awasthideputy editor: Mridu Singh Jhalasenior editor: Anil Pandey

CHIEF CONSULTING EDITOR: Malay Chaudhuri

CHIEFS OF BUREAU (INTERNATIONAL)Shahid Husain (Pakistan), Pranav Shukla (UK),Vivek Malhotra (Singapore)

ASSISTANT EDITORS: Saurabh Kumar Shahi

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTSAnil Dwivedi (Raipur)

PRINCIPAL CORRESPONDENTSSpriha Srivastava, Sray Agarwal

CORRESPONDENTSMayank Singh, Sayan Ghosh, Ishan Raychaudhuri, Sneha Th eeng, Raju Kumar (Bhopal), Haroon Reshi (Srinagar)

ONLINE TEAM: Anoop Kumar, Arun Sinha

EDITORIAL COORDINATOR: Prakriti Raj

SPECIAL INVESTIGATIVE TEAM: correspondents : Umesh Patil

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PHOTOGRAPHYchief photographer: Sujan Singh chief photo coordinator: Varun Pal Singh photographers: Mukunda De, Vikram kumar, Rangnath Tiwari, Ajit Krishnasenior photo researcher: Sanjay Kumar

PRODUCTIONproduction manager: Gurudas Mallik Th akurproduction supervisor: Digember Singh, Satbir Chauhan, Soumyajeet Gupta, Dipak Basak, N Ekantha Lingam, Deep Narayan

MARKETING Pushkar Nanda, Rajat Sogani, Ravi Babu, Sumit Raina, Guljar Singh, Rishi Kapoor, Sunil Kumar, Bhaskar Mojumdar

CIRCULATIONregional heads: Joydeep Ganguly

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24congress vs congress

30india's most disruptive trimurti

cover

Has ‘Hey Mom’ replaced ‘Mataji’ in B-town? With

‘spunky’ moms replacing the ‘dutiful’ mothers onscreen,See

the new-age face of ‘Maa’…

53THE CHANGING

FACE OF ‘MAA’ IN BOLLYWOOD

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H A P P E N I N G S

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“Th e developments in the last two weeks have been shocking and disappointing... During this diffi cult phase, I join every cricketer, from the boys and girls in the maidans (grounds) across the country to those who represent clubs, states and the country, who trust the authorities to take sincere steps to get to the root of the issue.”

SACHIN TENDULKAR, Indian Cricket batsman

on the allegations of spot-fi xing in IPL

“I always tell Narendra Modi that Gujarat was already prosperous...But (even) aft er multiplying the rate of development in MP, Shivraj Chouhan is still humble as a person.”

L K ADVANI , BJP leader,on the diff erence

between Gujarat and MP chief ministers

“It is important to keep a practical control of Right to Information objectives because it cannot be allowed to run riot.”

SALMAN KHURSHID,External Aff airs Minister

On CIC’s order to bring political parties under the RTI

“It’s not show business anymore. It’s now show-off business.” DHARMENDRA,

Actor,on changing trends in

Bollywood

“I don’t perform in front of a dead audience... taali maaro, sab log so gaye hain kya?”

ANUPAM KHER, Bollywood actor

losing his temper to Delhi audience for lack of theater

manners during his play ‘Kuch Bhi Ho Sakta Hai’

So They Said

LE PEN LOSES IMMUNITY

EUROPE REELS UNDER FLOODS

MUGABE CALLS EARLY POLLS

Over two dozen people have been killed and several

thousands of others aff ected in what is being pegged as possi-bly the worst Central Europe fl ooding in the past seven dec-ades. Earlier this week, at least a dozen people were confi rmed dead in Czech Republic alone where as a dozen others were reported missing. Meanwhile the fl ood led to emergency evacuation in other Central

An ultra-right member of the European Parliament

(MEP), Marine Le Pen, has been stripped off her immu-nity from prosecution over xenophobic remarks against Muslims. According to Swed-ish MEP Cecilia Wikstrom, the Legal Aff airs Committee fi -nally voted in heavy majority to strip the leader of the French National Front off political im-munity for making remarks that compared Muslim praying

in the streets to “Nazi occupa-tion,” a couple of years ago. “For those who want to talk a lot about World War II, if it’s about occupation, then we could also talk about Muslim prayers in the streets,” she had said. Le Pen had added that “there may not be any tanks or soldiers, but it is nevertheless an occupation.” Several Liberal MEPs have tried in the past to strip her immunity but it was only made possible this year.

US Army Private Bradley Manning has been put on

trial in the State of Maryland earlier this week, more than 38 months aft er he was arrested in Iraq. Th e trial of the 25-year-old began at Fort Meade mili-tary base over charges of espio-nage, including passing thou-sands of classifi ed documents

South African President Mugabe has maintained that he will follow the court order to hold the country’s election before the

end of July, much to the chagrin of his opponents. In an interview, he stressed that he will call polls “not later than July 31.” Last week, seven out of nine Constitutional Court judges ruled that Mugabe has breached the law by not declaring polls before June 29.

to the website WikiLeaks. In February, Manning admitted to the charges but refused to call it “espionage”. He added that he wanted to start a debate on the role of the US military and foreign policy including its “bloodlust” and complete disregard for human life in Iraq and Afghanistan.

BRADLEY MANNING GOES TO TRIAL

European countries including Germany, Austria, Poland, and Switzerland following almost a week of rainfall. Czech Repub-lic and Austria appears to be the most severely aff ected.

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DISRUPTIVEINDIA'S MOST

TRIMURTITHE ROAD TO HELL IS OFTEN PAVED WITH NOBLE

INTENTIONS. TEESTA SETALVAD, ARUNA ROY AND ARUNDHATI ROY ARE CASE STUDIES OF HOW.

C O V E R S T O R Y

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At fi rst glance, the headline and the photographs might make you think of an irresponsible fantasy. As one colleague put it, the words and ideas have been simply conjured from behind the safe shadows of a comfortable arm chair! But then think again: what are the three critical problems that India faces on the domestic front in the 21st century? Th e fi rst is lift ing about 500 million Indians from abject poverty. Aruna Roy has done remarkable work in this area for almost four decades. Th e second is waging war against the cancer of communalism that threatens the very foundations of our society. Teesta Setalvad has been waging war against communalism for more than a decade. Th e third is the disruptive manner in which exploitative crony capitalism is threatening Indian democracy. Arundhati Roy, during the course of her passionate and outspoken struggle against this, has seceded from the Indian Republic way back in 1998.On the face of it, all three represent ideas that are critical for the very survival of India. Why, then, are they disruptive for India? Th e fact is: the three are symbols of an insidious mindset that is resulting in tragic consequences for India. Th ey represent a "my way or highway" approach to problems and their solutions that brooks no dissent and no diff erence of opinion. Aruna Roy seems to think poverty can be eradicated without growth; Teesta Setalvad refuses to accept even considered judicial opinions if they diff er with her world view of who and what is communal and Arundhati Roy fi nds not a single redeeming feature in Indian democracy. Isn't it time for people like them to engage in a honest and non judgmental debate over India's future?

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big mess. Is there a way out? By MANISH K. PANDEY

It’s a new game!