12 february 2018
contents
12 february 2018
MuMbai Notebook
By Anil Dharker
14
Modi’s siNgle ballot
solutioN
The bold proposal of holding
Lok Sabha and Assembly polls
together confounds the opposition
By Amita Shah
46
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opeN House
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in
his first interaction with industr y
leaders after the Budget
By Siddharth Singh and Ullekh NP
32
faitH aNd fury
Mangaluru in southern
Karnataka is one of the strongholds
of Hindutva’s militant fringe. As
Assembly elections loom, the cause
celebre is love jihad
By V Shoba
50
iNdraprastHa
By Virendra Kapoor
12
locoMotif
An Indian pastoral by Modi & Jaitley
By S Prasannarajan
10
opeN e ssay
Populists at play
By Roderick Matthews
22
‘i aM Here to be
aN actor, Not a Hero’
Sanjay Mishra and the raw
intimacy of being rooted
By Divya Unny
74
spottiNg cHatwiN aNd otHer
deligHts iN Jaipur
At the world’s biggest literary carnival
By Tishani Doshi
78
NatioNal portrait
Meghnad Desai holds a mirror to the
oneness of India’s multiple identities
By Pulapre Balakrishnan
86
a Moveable feast
The enduring food fantasy
By Shylashri Shankar
88
a Matter of life
Beware the new malignancy
By Dr Ambrish Mithal
91
Not people like us
The fallout on friendship
By Rajeev Masand
92
forM & reforM
In the beginning is the definition
By Bibek Debroy
tHe equaliser
Modi has used the Union Budget
to create the architecture of an India
where India and Bharat can begin to
complement each other
By Swapan Dasgupta
20
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good luck JiNx
After being ignored for the first
t wo Tests, Ajinkya Rahane puts
selection policy to shame with a
match-winning knock in the final
game against South Africa
By Aditya Iyer
56
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Cover by Rohit Chawla