UPFRONT
GLOVES ARE
OFF IN J&K PG 3
OBITUARY:
K.P.S. GILL PG 9
INSIDE
LEISURE
THE MUSIC OF EVGENY
BUSHKOV PG 57
MEMORIES OF
MAACHER JHOL PG 59
PROFI L E
50
THE ANTI-
NATIONALIST
Twenty years
after her Booker-
winning debut,
The God of Small
Things, Arundhati
Roy returns as
fiction writer,
with The Ministry
of Utmost
Happiness
C OW S L AU G H T E R
20
Left
on the
Margins
C OV E R S T O RY
Despite being a surplus foodgrain
country, India has not been able to
rescue its farmers from the debt trap
34
WHAT THE
BAN MEANS...
A blow to meat exports, setback
to dairy farming and death to the
leather industry
S TAT E S
14
CRACKING
TELANGANA
The BJP
prepares to
storm the
Owaisi citadel
of Hyderabad
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