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	Mother Teresa's Calcutta, India's Kolkata It is best known to outsiders as Calcutta where the famed nun Mother Teresa set up her Missionaries of Charity to serve the dying in the city in 1950. Since then, the city has been renamed Kolkata and is witnessing a transformation in its political landscape. The state of West Bengal where it is located has been a traditional stronghold of India's Communist Party. That now may change, as the party and the state find themselves at the crossroads of tradition and progress. As India Votes 2009 Illustration: Vikash Sharma KARISHMA VASWANI
	Nano Car. Big Questions. Is Ratan Tata a hero or a villain? His Tata Nano car is set to put India’s lower-middle class on wheels with its unbelievably low price, but at what cost to the environment? LEE HAN SHIH

Mother Teresa's Calcutta, India's Kolkata

It is best known to outsiders as Calcutta where the famed nun Mother Teresa set up her Missionaries of Charity to serve the dying in the city in 1950. Since then, the city has been renamed Kolkata and is witnessing a transformation in its political landscape. The state of West Bengal where it is located has been a traditional stronghold of India's Communist Party. That now may change, as the party and the state find themselves at the crossroads of tradition and progress. As India Votes 2009 Illustration: Vikash Sharma

KARISHMA VASWANI

Nano Car. Big Questions.

Is Ratan Tata a hero or a villain? His Tata Nano car is set to put India’s lower-middle class on wheels with its unbelievably low price, but at what cost to the environment?

LEE HAN SHIH

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Carry On

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See You Tomorrow

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Write on the Wall

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No Ordinary Security Guard

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Government School

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