A S I A
CHINA: Waking Giant
A roundtable of experts assembled in Beijing by TIME and the World Economic Forum envisions what the next 50 years will be like for the world's most populous nation

KASHMIR: Winner or Loser?
Nawaz Sharif's talk of peace angers his countrymen

INDIA: The Living Dead
In desperate rural areas, farmers are being "killed" for land

T H E   A R T S
BOOKS: The Tesseract
Alex Garland conjures up a complex thriller

E N D   P A G E S
SPOTLIGHT

MILESTONES

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

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