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Nicolas Sarkozy’s December 2010 India visit blended ceremony with commerce: Rafale jets, nuclear reactors, and France’s bid for New Delhi’s favor.

December 4, 2010 · 1 min read

Architect Didi Contractor spent decades in Kangra building with mud while India chose concrete. On tradition, climate, and the status signaling of “modernity.”

December 3, 2010 · 1 min read

Looking slimmer isn't about hiding your body — it's about fit, line, and proportion. Practical dressing tips that actually work.

December 3, 2010 · 2 min read

Hacker, activist, fugitive: at 39, Julian Assange is wanted by Sweden and hunted by governments. A profile of the man behind WikiLeaks.

December 2, 2010 · 2 min read

Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers argues that success owes as much to timing, culture, and 10,000 hours as to talent. A review of the year's most enjoyable read.

December 2, 2010 · 2 min read

The Radia tapes ensnared politicians, tycoons, and journalists. Yet the fury fixed on the women. On the gendered script of the 2010 tapes scandal.

December 2, 2010 · 2 min read

Some called for Hillary Clinton to resign over the WikiLeaks cables. On why the case was structural, the cause was elsewhere, and she stayed.

November 30, 2010 · 1 min read

Ratan Tata moved the Supreme Court claiming the leaked Niira Radia tapes violated his right to privacy. On the collision of public interest and private

November 30, 2010 · 1 min read

Velma Hart told Obama at a town hall she was ‘exhausted’ defending him. Months later she lost her job. On what happened — and what didn’t get proven.

November 30, 2010 · 1 min read

Bill O'Reilly declared the WikiLeaks leakers 'traitors' who 'should be executed.' On the harshest end of America's 2010 debate over the cable disclosures.

November 30, 2010 · 1 min read

How did a 22-year-old analyst exfiltrate hundreds of thousands of classified files? On the institutional failures — physical, procedural, human — behind the

November 29, 2010 · 1 min read

WikiLeaks' Iraq War Logs — 391,832 U.S. Army field reports — documented 109,032 deaths, uninvestigated torture, and a casualty count the U.S. said didn't exist.

November 29, 2010 · 2 min read

Bradley Manning, 23, went from Army intelligence analyst in Iraq to the prime suspect behind the biggest leak in U.S. military history.

November 29, 2010 · 2 min read

The WikiLeaks cables revealed Arab leaders privately urging the U.S. to strike Iran's nuclear program — while saying otherwise in public.

November 29, 2010 · 2 min read

NPR's Rob Sachs wrote an irreverent guide to surviving life's daily indignities — clogged toilets, dog poop, and all. A review.

November 29, 2010 · 3 min read

2G spectrum, the Commonwealth Games, Adarsh, the Radia tapes, Karnataka mining, UP foodgrain, the IPL franchise row — on the scandals defining India in late

November 27, 2010 · 1 min read

Admissions officers were checking applicants’ Facebook profiles by 2010. On privacy, protected characteristics, and the channel that was never meant for

November 27, 2010 · 1 min read

Newsweek’s November 2010 cover depicted Obama as Shiva with multiple arms. Hindu groups, conservatives, and Obama supporters all objected — for different

November 24, 2010 · 1 min read

Black Friday keeps creeping into Thanksgiving. On the tradition-versus-commerce argument, the workers caught in the middle, and why the calendar never moves

November 24, 2010 · 1 min read

Nitish Kumar's 2010 landslide cut across caste lines — but Lalu Yadav's Yadav base held firm. On vote-bank politics and whether Bihar had really changed.

November 24, 2010 · 1 min read