Cover Story
Stock market mayhem
Taxation fears
Margin trading and a falling market
Inevitable fall
Interview:Prithvi Haldea
Interview:L.C.Gupta

Reservation

Elitist agenda
Court rules
Unsure steps
Affirmative action and caste dilemmas

The States
Manipur: Violence ad violation
Mining frenzy in Karnataka
Children of the pits
Assam: In the name of changing names

World Affairs
Nepal: Tricky tasks
Somalia: Return to civil war
East Timor: Troubled state
Fiji: Complex equation
Iraq and a wall of silence
Damming spree in China

Obituary
Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Nuclear Power
Rising stakes
Interview:S.K.Jain, Chairman, NPCIL

Focus: Prasar Bharati

Pushing frontiers

Focus: Civil Services

The UPSC challenge
Success strategies

Interview
West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee

Disaster
Indonesia: Quake and politics

Column
Bhaskar Ghose: Setting our house in order
R.K. Raghavan: Container insecurity
Praful Bidwai: The merit fallacy
Jayati Ghosh: Pride and prejudice

Books
Text and drama
review by Sudhanva Deshpande
Neglected area
review by A.G. Noorani
In aid of Israel
review by A.G. Noorani

Also
The English Language
Letters