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Dear contributors and friends,

 

The February issue of Hardnews is live and available on stands. Please visit www.hardnewsmedia.com for details and http://www.hardnewsmedia.com/2007/10/1426 for where the magazine is available.

 

The website is being updated regularly and now includes more than the print version.

 

Cover Story: Rahul's Agneepath

 

 

The Cover Story includes:

 

1) Two Steps Back, One Step Forward

If Priyanka joins the campaign across UP, along with Rahul's consistent efforts, Congress might hope to push the electoral threshold beyond predictable limits

Sanjay Kapoor Delhi

 

2) Cycle with Wings

Akhilesh Yadav is Flying on the anti-incumbency wave across UP, while the game seems to be over for Mayawati

Pradeep Kapoor Lucknow

 

3) The M Factor

With Congress literally absent on the ground, it's SP which might get the Muslim vote

Seema Mustafa Moradabad

 

4) Hard Nut to Crack

SP and Congress seem to be riding high, the BSP's base is in rapid decline, while a faction-ridden BJP lags behind. Indeed, the electoral game in UP is wide open

Anil Kumar Verma Kanpur

 

5) 'Yes, the stone elephants, we will feed them sugarcane!'

Exclusive Interview with Akhilesh Yadav

Sadiq Naqvi Bijnor

 

6) Elephantine Enigma

Will up's relatively high economic growth in recent years yield political dividends for BSP?

Ajit Kumar Singh Lucknow

 

7) Maya's fading magic

In the city where she started her political journey, Mayawati's fortunes this time rest on which way Muslim voters will turn

Sadiq Naqvi Delhi/Bijnor

 

8) Grandpa's charisma, Pa's opportunism

Jayant Chaudhary might become a star in the Jat hinterland if he inherits Chaudhary Charan Singh's mass appeal, and chucks Ajit Singh's dubious shifts

Akash Bisht Kheragarh (Agra)

 

The magazine also includes:

 

So how Zaroori is Khanduri?

In Uttarakhand, there are signs of a hung assembly. Smaller parties and independents can play kingmaker and decide the fate of Congress and BJP

Akash Bisht Dehradun

 

Aadhaar's shaky foundation

India's mammoth biometrics-based identification project gets a thumbs up from the home ministry, even as inconvenient questions haunting aspects of data collection and control still hang fire

Sadiq Naqvi Delhi

 

'Pakistan is a rich, rich country'

Drawing massive crowds and tipped to be the next big leader, Imran Khan is rocking Pakistan. In a freewheeling interview he describes his political vision, radical transformation from below, end of the feudal and VIP culture, and his deep love for India

Kiran Nazish Lahore

 

Paper Tiger Bureau?

Dogged by charges of inefficiency and isolation, it's a tough battle ahead for the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau

Akash Bisht Delhi

 

Ramayana, May 1968

Remembering Ramanujan's Three Hundred Ramayanas through the prism of the luminescent May 1968 students' uprising in France

Manoj K Jha Delhi   

 

'India is a good business destination'

In an exclusive interview, Portuguese  Ambassador to India Jorge Averse Roza de Oliveira talks of his love for India and how both countries can strengthen economic ties in these times of crisis.

Sanjay Kapoor Delhi

 

Lyrical Suspense of Separation

An Iranian film reinterprets truth, used more to deceive than to reveal

Sonali Ghosh Sen Kolkata

 

Ramblings of a Wannabe Jazz Musician

A bird song for Mario Miranda and pristine Moira

Hartman D'Souza Goa

 

'I am a feeling no one can resist'

With his clichéd repertoire and recent super-duds, is it the end of the road for ageing Shahrukh Khan?

Aakshi Magazine Delhi

 

The Whimsical Muse

The books tell important stories, based on actual events couched in fiction, and yet slide out of the crevices of one's head, leaving little trace of memories

Ratna Raman Delhi

 

Baptised into One Body

'Narcopolis' has created a new benchmark in literary fiction. Kudos to Jeet Thayil for having made a neat transition from verse to prose

Jaya Bhattacharji Rose Delhi

 

'Most Indian publishers rejected the manuscript'

Author Jeet Thayil in conversation with Jaya Bhattacharji Rose

 

Among many others. 

 

 

+ Columns by Amit Sengupta, Sanjay Kapoor, Rupa Gulab and Mehru Jaffer. 

+ Exclusive articles by Le Monde Diplomatique, France

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