Cover Story

• Remembering Vivekananda
• The iconoclast Swami
• Attempts at appropriation
• Legacy of service
• Tryst with the west
• Engagement with Christianity

Politics

• Jharkhand: Coalition collapse
• DMK: Apparent heir

Column

• C.P. Chandrasekhar:The gold rush
• Sashi Kumar: On 'mediacracy' and intellectuals
• Jayati Ghosh: When home is no help

The Nation

• Bihar: Changing equations
• Oil Companies :Evidence of cartelisation
• West Bengal: Politics of violence

Science Notebook

• Disposing of nuclear waste
• New water desalination method
• Gene flow from India to Australia

Focus: DRDO

• DRDL: Missile designer

World Affair

• Venezuela: Rallying round Hugo Chavez
• Syria: A new year without hope
• United States: Obama's war veterans

World View

• Mali: French intervention
• Palestine: Cairo calling
• Sri Lanka: Chief Justice removed

Books

• Voice of a bygone era review by Abhinav Chandrachud A cautionary tale review by Andy Beckett © Guardian News & Media 2013
• The BJP and Nathuram Godse by A.G. Noorani

Download Full Size

Courtesy: The Hindu