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Web of terror
Terrorism in cyberspace has become a matter of global concern. Cyber espionage, web vandalism, hacking IT infrastructure and terror e-mails are the new means of warfare. It is time to take steps to make the world wide web safe, writes Subimal Bhattacharjee
EVENTS in cyberspace are becoming more scary. Just five minutes before the serial blasts in Delhi on September 13, a terror e-mail was sent as a challenge to the security forces. This was of a piece with a similar e-mail sent before the serial blasts in Ahmedabad in July.

Security personnel cordon off the area in Connaught Place after a series of blasts in Delhi   The big strikes

  Forms of attack

Security personnel cordon off the area in Connaught Place after a series of blasts in Delhi on September 13.
— AFP photo

Battle over Picassos
Tony Paterson in Berlin
THE paintings are not only priceless, but they have been among the star attractions at New York’s Museum of Modern Art and the city’s equally renowned Guggenheim Museum for more than four decades. 

Threads of progress
Hayden Hall, the only women’s group in Darjeeling, has a clear agenda for empowerment. It provides jobs to women and takes care of their health needs. Hayden Hall also provides scholarships to children of needy families, reports Deepti Priya Mehrotra
T
HE women of Darjeeling, the picturesque hill station of West Bengal—well known for its spectacular view of the Kanchenjunga, the picture-perfect heritage railway and sprawling tea plantations — lead hard lives.

Land of many festivals
The green state of Nagaland, with its 15 colourful tribes, offers a unique experience, writes Sujata Varadarajan
NAGALAND, a verdant and a tribal state of Northeast, still attempts to hold on to its traditional way of life as much as possible.

Tale of two bombs
Lt Col Chanan Singh Dhillon (retd)
EUROPE has been revisiting the memories of the World War II again. The first week of August marked the anniversary of the war.

INTERVIEW
Master of the medium
Shoma A. Chatterji talks to Girish Kasaravalli, whose Gulabi Talkies won the Best Indian Film Award at the 10th Osian’s-Cinefan Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema
GIRISH Kasaravalli, the diminutive, now grey-haired and low profile filmmaker from Karnataka who has grown into an international name, keeps evolving and growing in his own, reclusive way. His Gulabi Talkies, premiered in the Indian

COLUMNS

TELEVISIONFun and cricket

GARDEN LIFE: Lovely lilies
by Kiran Narain

FOOD TALKGood old tangri
by Pushpesh Pant

CONSUMER RIGHTS: Banks must stick to fair practices
by Pushpa Girimaji

HOLLYWOOD HUES: Of life, love and guilt
by Ervell E. Menezes

BRIDGE
by David Bird

ULTA PULTA: Unsolved riddles
by Jaspal Bhatti

BOOKS

The rise of the rest
A. J. Philip
The Post-American World
by Fareed Zakaria.
Penguin-Viking. Pages 292. Rs 499.

Books received
Hindi

Keeping elections fair
J. C. Luther
The Miracle of Democracy—India’s Amazing Journey 
by T.S. Krishnamurthy.
HarperCollins. Pages 243. Rs 395.

Mysticism and politics
Harbans Singh
Sufism, Culture and Politics—Afghans and Islam in Medieval North India
by Raziuddin Aquil. Oxford University Press. Pages 268. Rs 595.

Flights of imagination
Ramesh Luthra
No Other World
by Kunwar Narain. Translated by Apurva Narian.
Rupa. Pages 300. Rs 395.

Mixed identities
M. Rajivlochan
Transnational South Asians: The Making of a Neo-Diaspora
Eds. Susan Koshy and R. Radhakrishnan.
Oxford University Press. Pages 378. Rs 695.

Reclusive author
Anita Sethi
While writing his new novel, Nadeem Aslam didn’t see a single person for seven months; his food was left for him when he was asleep, and he didn’t even realise when it was New Year’s Eve

Booker short list
Arifa Akbar

BACK OF THE BOOK

  • Sarchashma-e-abadi—The Eternal Spring
    by Idrak Bhatty.
    Mapin Publishing. Pages 299.

  • Derangements
    by Rajorshi Chakraborti.
    Harper Collins. Pages 292. Rs 295.

  • Journey Through the Corridors of Nepal — Foundations of Prosperity Through Horticulture.
    by Gurdeep Singh Randhawa.
    Trishul. Pages 144. Rs 575.





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