Michelle Giles (OCC): Postcolonial Gothic and The God of Small Things: The Haunting of India's Past. Arundhati Roy is the new India's most high-profile critic (and more and more). Apurba Kundu (IIT): Secularism in the World Today: Challenges and Prospects. IIT’s stressed-out geeks opt for suicide solution: Management and counseling cells come under fire for failing to tackle spike in deaths. From Outlook India, a special issue on the decline of the Left in India. Badri Raina writes on how the left parties in India may have relied too much on theory and too little on practice. In the wake of an historic defeat, can India’s communists finally break with the hidebound dogmas of their past? Poor Little Rich Country: How do you categorize India, a nation that is at once fantastically wealthy and desperately poor? Feast and Famine: India is growing, but Indians are still starving. A rapidly developing suburb of New Delhi, Gurgaon is a microcosm of India’s dynamic, dysfunctional growth, where private development has outpaced any functioning city government. India invents a city: Lavasa is an orderly, high-tech community with everything — except people. A review of Mumbai Fables: A History of an Enchanted City by Gyan Prakash. See you in the hot flash club: Namita Gokhale’s Priya sets Nisha Susan wondering why fiction has so few 70-year-olds with green, strap-on dildos. Sexual immorality in our conservative society is more damaging than financial embezzlement — so how come no one is reporting on it? Vijaykumar Shrikrushna Chowbe (SGBAU): Adultery: A Conceptual and Legal Analysis. Want to be a Hindustani Music stud? Here are 6 steps to faking it. India’s Vanishing Vultures: Can the world’s fastest growing nation restore its prime scavenger before there are untold human consequences?
