16 | STARDUST SHROUDS TAMIL POLITICS
A Rajini-Kamal combo could upset the Dravidian
parties’ traditional ways of electioneering and
even neutralise cash-for-votes methods
52 | HELLO, ANYBODY THERE?
How steep hikes in mobile tariffs
will affect India’s digital revolution
56 | GLIMPSES OF A DEMOCRATIC ART
William Dalrymple writes about the art in Lucknow
that flourished from the late-18th to mid-19th centuries,
and melded European and Mughal aesthetics
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