Dispatches

Odisha government constitutes a task force to deal with the raging forest fires in the State, especially in the Similipal biosphere

Modi targets Mamata at rally in Kolkata, promises 'real change'; Mamata responds with protest in Siliguri against fuel price rise

Woman IPS officer accuses a top Tamil Nadu police official of sexual harassment, Madras High Court takes suo motu notice

Mamata throws a challenge to Suvendu Adhikari, announces her decision to contest from his bastion of Nandigram; Trinamool candidates list out

After Rashtriya Janata Dal and Samajwadi Party, Shiv Sena backs Mamata Banerjee in the upcoming Assembly elections in West Bengal

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation sets aside Rs.1,400 crore for the rejuvenation of Mumbai’s rivers

The Goa Foundation says a new proposal of the Ministry of Mines infringes on the rights of State governments and would lead to the sale of mines at below-market prices

Tamil Nadu government bans registration of land within 5km radius of Madras Atomic Power Station at Kalpakkam

Jitendra Tiwari, Trinamool MLA and former Mayor of Asansol, joins BJP on a day when ECI notifies first of eight-phase Assembly election

An international online symposium of university teachers calls for the creation of a forum to address the major disruption in academics caused by COVID-19 pandemic

COVER STORY: Puducherry

Coordinated resignations of legislators in Puducherry just ahead of the Assembly election

R.K. Radhakrishnan

The coordinated resignations of legislators in Puducherry just ahead of the Assembly election smack of the BJP’s devious plans to topple governments.

Interview: V. Narayanasamy

V. Narayanasamy on BJP’s twin-track toppling game

R.K. Radhakrishnan

Interview with V. Narayanasamy, former Chief Minister of ...

Interview: N. Rangasamy

‘It was our duty to seek a trust vote’

R.K. Radhakrishnan

Interview with N. Rangasamy, former Chief Minister of ...

From ‘bling-bling’ to Sing Sing: the calamitous fall of Nicolas Sarkozy

Susan Ram

The conviction of a former president on corruption charges is a major humiliation for the French ...

BJP’s brazen ventures to topple democratically elected governments in the name of Operation Lotus makes a mockery of democracy

Venkitesh Ramakrishnan

In the face of its failure to achieve its goal of a Congress-free India, the Bharatiya Janata Party ...

The grandeur of the Vijayanagar era temple at Lepakshi, Andhra Pradesh

SUDHA MAHALINGAM Photographs by Sudha Mahalingam

Built in the 16th century, the golden age of the Vijayanagar empire, the Lepakshi temple in ...

Dispatches

Odisha government constitutes a task force to deal with the raging forest fires in the State, especially in the Similipal biosphere

Prafulla Das

As hundreds of forest fires continue to devour large tracts in different parts of Odisha, ...

Modi targets Mamata at rally in Kolkata, promises 'real change'; Mamata responds with protest in Siliguri against fuel price rise

Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee launched almost ...

Woman IPS officer accuses a top Tamil Nadu police official of sexual harassment, Madras High Court takes suo motu notice

Ilangovan Rajasekaran

For the first time in the history of Tamil Nadu Police, a senior Indian Police Service ...

Mamata throws a challenge to Suvendu Adhikari, announces her decision to contest from his bastion of Nandigram; Trinamool candidates list out

Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay

The stage is set for the most important and dramatic electoral contest in the Assembly ...

After Rashtriya Janata Dal and Samajwadi Party, Shiv Sena backs Mamata Banerjee in the upcoming Assembly elections in West Bengal

Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay

After the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and the Samajwadi Party (S.P.) announced that they ...

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation sets aside Rs.1,400 crore for the rejuvenation of Mumbai’s rivers

Lyla Bavadam

One of the lesser-known treasures of Mumbai are its rivers. The average citizen realised ...

Books

The Deccan’s defences

VIKHAR AHMED SAYEED

The volume enhances the understanding of the forts of medieval Deccan and, concomitantly, the history of the region.

Sir Syed Ahmad Khan (1817-1898): A man with a mission

Mohammad Sajjad

An immensely readable biography of the reformist Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, and a corrective to existing studies of Muslim ...

Diplomacy in militancy

A.G. NOORANI

The book, about the need for negotiations and talks, abounds with an astonishing number of case studies in Asia, Africa, ...

Book review: R. Balakrishnan's "Journey of a Civilization: Indus to Vaigai" seeks to establish common ground between the Indus Valley and Old Tamil traditions

T. Udhayachandran

The book holds a treasure trove of surprises relating to the Indus Valley Civilisation and Tamil literature and seeks to ...

Digitisation and oil industry

M.P. Sukumaran Nair

A must read for the academic and industrial practitioners in the oil and gas industry. BY M.P. Sukumaran Nair

Co-publishing venture opens up new vistas for Tamil literature in translation

Abhirami Girija Sriram

The literature-in-translation programme supported by the Tamil Nadu Textbook and Educational Services Corporation in ...

Arts & Culture

Interview: Audrey Truschke

Audrey Truschke: ‘I am not alone in refusing to sway with the Indian political winds’

Ziya Us Salam

Interview with the historian Audrey Truschke.

Obituary

TRIBUTE

A historian as myth buster

R. Mahalakshmi

Professor D.N. Jha (1940-2021) sought to bring the dis-privileged into the historical canvas and celebrated pluralism and dissent in his writings.

Obituary

TRIBUTE: Christopher Plummer

Christopher Plummer (1929-2021): Captain out of a trap

Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay

Actor Christopher Plummer (1929-2021) was much more than Captain von Trapp, the role that he is most identified with. In a remarkable career of over ...

World Affairs

India & China

Signs of a thaw between India and China

John Cherian

The agreement between India and China to withdraw their troops deployed in the Pangong Tso area is a positive sign of ...

Social Issues

Condition of Muslims in West Bengal: A reality check

Subhanil Chowdhury Saswata Ghosh

Official data available in the public domain show that the claims made against Muslims in West Bengal in the election ...

Imaginary enemies

Ziya Us Salam

Contrary to the vilification of Islamic rulers of the medieval era by Hindutva warriors over an imagined past of ...

RESERVATION

Panchamsali and Kuruba caste groups demand increase in percentage of quota in Karnataka

Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed

Chief Minister Yediyurappa finds himself in a catch-22 situation as a Lingayat subsect wants to be reclassified within ...

The Nation

CONTROVERSY

Bhima Koregaon case: planted evidence?

ANUPAMA KATAKAM

Investigations by Arsenal Consulting, a global digital forensics consulting company, have revealed that evidence had ...

EDUCATION

Education in the time of pandemic

Rama Kant Agnihotri

Online teaching cannot be a substitute for physical schools and the opportunities that schools offer for learning and ...

Disaster

Chamoli flash flood: A wake-up call

T.K. Rajalakshmi

Geologists and glaciologists see the recent landslide and flash flood in Uttarakhand as part of inevitable natural ...

CHAMOLI DISASTER

Myanmar returns to military rule after army stages a coup on February 1, the day the newly elected parliament was to convene

John Cherian

The army in Myanmar stages a coup yet again, on the day the new parliament was to convene, but the people have come out ...

The Nation

Disaster

Himalayan tragedy in Uttarakhand

Purnima S. Tripathi

The flash flood in Chamoli, Uttarakhand, which left death and ruin in its wake, was a ...

Farmers' movement

Farmers' movement gathers steam in Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh

T.K. Rajalakshmi

Support from the khaps of western Uttar Pradesh and Haryana and protests across the ...

Interview: Sarwan Singh Pandher

‘The government has to first create an environment conducive to talks’

T.K. Rajalakshmi

Interview with Sarwan Singh Pandher, general secretary, Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee, ...

Interview: Kanwar Grewal

Kanwar Grewal: ‘I feel very responsible for what is happening around me’

T.K. Rajalakshmi

Interview with Kanwar Grewal, singer.

Disha Ravi's Arrest

Disha Ravi’s arrest sparks off protests in Bengaluru

Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed

Friends, former classmates and members of civil society are speaking up and protesting ...

POLITICS

Farmers' agitation

Popular resentment against the BJP-led Centre rises as ongoing farmers' agitation spreads, shows effects in Punjab local body elections

Venkitesh Ramakrishnan

The spread of the farmers’ agitation to many parts of northern India, the traction it gets ...

Pulwama Revisited

Why were intelligence inputs ahead of Pulwama attack ignored?

Anando Bhakto Recently in Srinagar

Frontline is now in possession of official documents that underscore the point that the ...

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