Editorial
Who Killed Hemant Karkare?
For the first time, the Indian state was conducting a thorough professional probe into a terror network involving Hindu extremist organisations. The implications of this investigation bring to question the death of the lead investigator of the Anti-Terrorism Squad, Chief Hemant Karkare, on the day of the Mumbai attacks.
by R.H.
From Issue 32 December 15th, 2008

Editorial
Soft Power of Community Mobilization
In the face of terror in South Asia, from Kashmir to Sri Lanka, counter-terrorism takes new and ever-changing shape. Nimmi Gowrinathan explores the possibilities of community mobilization to protect against the dehumanizing impacts of terror in rural South Asia.
by Nimmi Gowrinathan
From Issue 32 December 15th, 2008

Editorial
Dear Thomas Friedman, You're Wrong (Again)
Muslim bodies must once again be shamed, blamed, and asked to apologize in Thomas Friedman's "Calling All Pakistanis". Omer Shah calls out Friedman's decontextualizing of larger geopolitical strategies and relationships.
by Omer Shah
From Issue 32 December 15th, 2008

Editorial
The Harm of Hype
The mainstream media's manipulation of the events of November 26 has set the tone for increased belligerence and hawkish strategies by the state. However the people of Mumbai find themselves in a more complex predicament as they try to make sense of what happened.
by Geeta Seshu
From Issue 32 December 15th, 2008

Editorial
Lest We Forget
Many secular Mumbai residents were horrified by the ready rhetoric for war spread by the news channels. Sapna Shahani chronicles the efforts of two citizens of Mumbai to put out another perspective - of peace - one that proved to resonate with thousands of people.
by Sapna Shahani
From Issue 32 December 15th, 2008

Photoessay
The View from Badhwar Park
by Jaishri Abichandani
From Issue 32 December 15th, 2008

Editorial
As the Fires Die: The Terror of the Aftermath
As the smoke lifts from Mumbai, skepticism must prevail over those conjectures which support the official state narrative. It is crucial to increase the pressure for transparency and accountability at this moment to ensure that India doesn't slide into the same state as post-9/11 USA.
by Biju Mathew
From Issue 31 December 1st, 2008

Editorial
Change We Can Believe In?
Obama's landslide victory marks the beginning of a new era, a moment of enormous possibility and for those of us fed up from the past eight years, long overdue prospect of change. But the change needs our continued efforts and work, unless we are willing to settle for another version of the Clinton years.
by Anjali Kamat
From Issue 30 November 10th, 2008

Editorial
Notes on a Meltdown, and a View of the Other Side
Looking through the alphabet soup of financial instruments such as Collateralized Debt Obligations, Asset Backed Commercial Papers, Credit Debt Swaps, are you feeling like a commoner back in the day, disallowed from reading holy verses in the sacred language, while being made to feel like a sinner for questioning the high order? Ali Mir explains the collapse and considers the Obama victory and the next Act in the struggle.
by Ali Mir
From Issue 30 November 10th, 2008

Features
IT, BT and Bangalore's Moral Economy
Police crackdowns on Bangalore's nightlife didn't bring solidarity between the upscale clubs and live show cabarets; in fact images of the woman as loose and mini-wearing in one and prostitutes in the other showed the deepening class divide.
by Hemangini Gupta and Lalitha Kamath
From Issue 30 November 10th, 2008

Forum: Movement and Momentum
Hijras, a Police Crusade and an Action
Bangalore, the new global city, is 'cleaning up' and police justify their brutality saying that they are just following orders. India has reached new heights of physical and sexual abuse and arbitrary arrests of hijras. But recent events have inspired the launch of the National Campaign for Sexual Minorities' Rights.
by Svati Shah
From Issue 30 November 10th, 2008

Forum: Movement and Momentum
Kotis and Sexual Politics in Eastern India
The males who take up the "Koti" identity are situated in a zone between mainstream masculinity and the highly marginalized Hijra identity, operating from the border of classes, communities and genders.
by Aniruddha Dutta
From Issue 30 November 10th, 2008

Forum: Movement and Momentum
Organizing Delhi's Pride: A Conversation with Gautam Bhan
The biggest difference is that pride in India is still part-protest, part-celebration, part a call for dignity, part a claim for public space, part-assertion and part-fear.
by Amber Vora
From Issue 30 November 10th, 2008

Features
The Work of Domestic Work
Domestic workers' unions in India educate workers about their rights and advocate at the local, national, and international level for women pulled into this industry as a result of poverty, displacement or trafficking.
by Sister Josephine Amala Valarmathi
From Issue 30 November 10th, 2008

Music
Listening to an Anatomy of a Coup
Sacha Silva's Anatomy of a Coup conveys the heroic and tragic nature of humanity's struggle against circumstance through north and south Indian musical influences, flamenco guitar traditions, and western classical music.
by Robin Sukhadia
From Issue 30 November 10th, 2008