Not long ago, at Lalgarh in West Bengal, the country witnessed the first fully televised confrontation between the Indian State and its subjects, in which the goal of the insurgents was not to create a separate state or country, but to capture the Indian State itself.

Despite a 25 percent deficit in rainfall, a village in Udaipur still manages to fill up its water tanks to the brim. Shantanu Guha Ray finds out how

Chhattisgarh has for long been in the national eye for its Naxal threat. But few know of its other grave crisis that has been kept carefully under wraps

An illegal make-over of the ambitious Bengaluru Mysore Corridor leaves slumdwellers on the road and the Supreme Court toothless.

THOSE WHO attended the chief secretaries

Roma, 44, lobbied in favour of the Forest Rights Act against a State impervious to the possibility of a civil war

Alok Agarwal, 43, was destined for the soft life of an IIT boy. Instead, he courted arrests and broken bones to stop the Maheshwar dam-------------

SATINATH SARANGI, 55, had planned to stay for a week. Decades later, he is still fighting on behalf of those affected by the gas tragedy

From Mexico to Pune, swine flu is spreading more fear than disease. DIVYA GUPTA maps the hysteria

Cautious? A Mumbai school teacher helps kids with masks given by the Shiv Sena

Madhya Pradesh has no land to rehabilitate the dam oustees. Instead, the convoluted rules of the relief package create victims for conmen

RANCHOR BHAI, dam oustee framed in a land scam

IT WAS ONLY after spending a month in jail that Ranchor Bhai discovered why he was there.