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Date: Thu, May 3, 2012 at 5:22 PM
Subject: The May issue of Hardnews live and available at newsstands
To: editors@hardnewsmedia.com
Dear contributors and friends,
The May 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: Borders are so yesterday
It's time to open the doors of our borders. It's possible, this dream sequence of hope
Cover story includes:
1) Sublime Swat-zerland by Sanjay Kapoor in Swat
With the Taliban ousted and the Pakistan army in control, the Swat Valley has rediscovered its serenity
2) 'No gesture from India has gone unattended' by Sanjay Kapoor in Islamabad
Conversation with Hina Rabbani Khar, Foreign Minister of Pakistan
3) The Lost Girls by Zehra Nabi in Karachi
In the past four months there have been 47 reported cases of forced conversion of young girls from minority communities.
The hidden saga of young Hindu girls in Pakistan is an epic narrative of absolute horror
Special Package: Arms and men
1) General in his Labyrinth by Akash Bisht in Delhi
Will the army chief opt for a political banner post retirement to reclaim his 'lost pride'?
2) 'Instead of booking the culprits, the complainant is being crucified'
Mrinalini Singh, Gen VK Singh's daughter, in conversation with Akash Bisht
3) Underhand Business with Open Arms by Mohan Guruswamy in Delhi
It's not often that the endemic malfeasance in the lucrative world of arms deals spills out in the open
4) The Will to Innovate by Manohar Thyagaraj in Washington, DC
When it comes to defence preparedness in India, it is clearly a case of belling the wrong cat
The magazine also includes:
1) Basic Instinct by Sadiq Naqvi in Delhi
The underworld of the Indian capital is like a schizophrenic, super rich city trapped in crime
2) Speed Spots by Akash Bisht in Delhi
The cheetah, mass murdered in India, could soon be chasing chinkara in the Indian grasslands bringing back the golden age when IT hunted throughout the vast plains
3)'The hog deer is as important as the tiger'
An exclusive interview with veteran environmentalist MK Ranjitsinh
4) This terror never ends by Pradeep Kapoor in Lucknow
For innocent Muslims, framed as terrorists in UP, neither Mayawati nor the 'secular' Congress-led UPA brought justice.
Will Akhilesh Yadav fulfil his promise and turn this tide of brazen injustice?
5) This must be said by Mehru Jaffer in Vienna
In his recent poem, Germany's greatest living writer, Günter Grass, questions his government's role in militarising West Asia, and talks of Israel's nuclear arsenal as a threat to the world
5) Film Review: Broken Memory Shining Dust by Amit Sengupta
Their bodies have not been found. Their hands and eyes and skin and shirts and shoes and books and identities have not been found. They have not been declared dead by the Indian State or its armed forces
6) Film Review: The Hunger Games by Sonali Ghosh Sen
Survivor meets Big Brother meets Battle Royale in an artfully poor District 12 and a Marie Antoinette inspired rich Capitol: that's The Hunger Games
7) No Prophet of Doom
Hartman D Souza reviews Praful Bidwai's book, The politics of climate change and the global crisis
8) Book Review: Scripting the Change
Sociologist Anuradha Ghandy died young, for a revolution. These notes from the underground bring her back to life
Aakshi Magazine Delhi
9) Book Review: Behind the beautiful forevers
Mumbai has shrunk the ethical space for voicing collective hope outside narratives of abject pain. This book says how
Sailen Routray Bengaluru
10) Book Review: The history of the world in 100 objects
'Those who are on the losing side, those whose societies are conquered or destroyed, often have only their things to tell their stories'
Jaya Bhattacharji Rose Delhi
11) Film Review: Jai Bhim Comrade
Legendary documentary filmmaker Anand Patwardan's latest film resurrects the violence against Dalits
and how history changes meaning, remembering, forgetting
Aakshi Magazine Delhi
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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