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Remote, not cut off

The three remote, tribal constituencies in Himachal Pradesh are voting ahead of the rest of the State this time, contrary to tradition.

A demonstration by the All Jammu and Kashmir Joint Labours Association demanding stern action against the persons involved in the rape and murder of Tabinda Gani, in Srinagar on July 27.-NISSAR AHMED

Frightened flock

Islamists in Kashmir appropriate the issue of the rape and murder of a girl to whip up a wave of xenophobia.

ANNIE ZAIDI AND PRAVEEN SWAMI

Faith and conflict

Deras are as much a part of the norm as they are a challenge to spiritual hegemony in Punjab.

Wilting fortunes

In Punjab, deeper and deeper tubewells are sunk as the water table keeps going down.

Bhupinder Singh went as a stowaway to Ukraine but was deported. He is still determined to go West.-AKHILESH KUMAR

Craze to go West

Thousands of Punjabis stake life, limb, property and pride to move abroad, particularly to the West.

Dirty reality

`Faecal Attraction' takes an unflinching view of urban sewage - what it is doing to our rivers and what it might soon do to our cities.

The living dead

Weavers are starving,children are dying and there have been reports of suicides. But the administration seems to be in denial mode.

Captain Amarinder Singh meets the media after the defeat.-

Paying the price

In the Punjab elections, the Akalis, in alliance with the BJP, reap the `benefits' of the Congress government's wrong policies.

The poster of 'Theke Pe Kya Karte Ho?'. In this film, the film-maker speaks to children who work in a liquor shop in Delhi.-

Voice of the earth

A film festival in Delhi shows that environmental film-makers' focus has shifted from wildlife to dilemmas about resources, power and politics.

Rape and more

The police make a gang-raped tribal woman run from pillar to post to file an FIR and then her community treats the issue as one of its honour.

MALNUTRITION IS WIDESPREAD among children in Sheopur district. Here, in Karrai village.-A.M. FARUQUI

State of misery

The Sahariya tribal population in Sheopur district continues to suffer from hunger and malnutrition.

Killer mineral

A report on the health of workers at the Alang ship-breaking yard points to the need to ban asbestos.

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