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Roots of Sri Lanka’s economic crisis

R. RAMAKUMAR

Sri Lanka’s current economic crisis is rooted in its long dalliance with IMF-imposed ...

Inherited problems that led to Sri Lanka’s economic crisis

C.P. Chandrasekhar

The Sri Lankan crisis has been intensified by the pandemic and the war in Ukraine. However, the ...

Sri Lanka's forex crisis bodes ill for tottering economy

R.K. Radhakrishnan

Low worker remittances and falling tourism revenue as a result of COVID-19 and diminishing export ...

Dispatches

Andhra Pradesh now has 26 districts with the addition of 13 new districts on April 4

Ravi Sharma

At the inauguration the Chief Minister said: "A district with six to eight assembly ...

Red chilli prices hit an all-time high in Telangana

Ravi Sharma

Over the past few days, the price of red chillies at one of Asia’s largest agricultural ...

Ukraine Conflict

Explained: Do civilian killings constitute war crimes?

Deutsche Welle

By all accounts, possible war crimes against civilians are happening in Ukraine, but there ...

Climate Change

World must halve emissions by 2030: IPCC

Deutsche Welle

Rapid decarbonization of energy is non-negotiable if we are to avert catastrophic global ...

COVID-19 Pandemic

COVID: Inside Shanghai's lockdown

Deutsche Welle

Around 25 million people remain locked down in the largest domestic outbreak since the ...

South Asia

Explained: Why Pakistan's political crisis goes beyond early elections

Deutsche Welle

The rejection of no-confidence motion against PM Imran Khan could have serious ...

Afghan File

Back to the warlords

JOHN CHERIAN

With the remnants of Al Qaeda and the Taliban hitting at will and little of the promised ...

Testing times

B.MURALIDHAR REDDY in Islamabad

The Bonn accord can be a master plan for peace as it offers Afghans three chances to ...

Afghanistan

The narco-politics of Afghanistan

ROMESH BHATTACHARJI

The West's indifference towards opium cultivation in Afghanistan has ensured that ...

An Afghan transition

JOHN CHERIAN

The Bush administration's candidate, Hamid Karzai, is the head of the Afghan government.

Afghanistan

Vandalised Afghanistan

OSMUND BOPEARACHCHI

The destruction of Afghanistan's cultural treasures during the period of the civil war in ...

When the mullahs fell silent

SADAQAT JAN in Islamabad

WHEN representatives of the international media camped in Islamabad for a ...

Books

Book Review

Reimagining the Tamil poet Avvai

H.S. Shivaprakash

A deeply political play which establishes Avvai as a vibrant, passionate poet of the Sangam period, almost an antithesis ...

Books/Interview

‘There is no political will for prison reforms’

Ziya Us Salam

Interview with Sanjoy Hazarika and Madhurima Dhanuka, editors of "Hope Behind Bars: Notes from Indian Prisons".

Excerpts

A different view of time

Shonaleeka Kaul

An excerpt from the introduction (“Temporality and Its Discontents Or Why Time Needs to be Retold”) of the book ...

Interview: Arvind Narrain

Countering the totalitarian state

VIKHAR AHMED SAYEED

Interview with Arvind Narrain, writer and lawyer.

BOOKS/CONTROVERSY

Vikram Sampath in plagiarism row

Ziya Us Salam

The historian Vikram Sampath finds himself caught in a controversy over allegations of the use of unattributed passages ...

Book Review

Book Review: Prasanna Mohanty's 'An Unkept Promise: What Derailed the Indian Economy' reflects on unfulfilled commitments in the post-2014 era

Ziya Us Salam

The book exposes the systemic flaws of governance since 2014, using persuasive arguments about what has gone wrong with ...

Cover Story

Sri Lanka's worsening crisis

In danger zone: Sri Lanka's downward spiral into full-blown crisis

R.K. Radhakrishnan Recently in Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka’s ongoing economic and humanitarian catastrophe becomes a full-blown political crisis, with the people taking to the streets in protest and ...

Wildlife

Conservation

The monarchs of Kashmir's mountains

Text by G. Shaheed Photographs by Dr Jainy Maria Kuriakose

While one side of the Kajinag National Park is home to the markhor, the elusive wild goat with spiralling horns, the other side boasts a variety of ...

Literature

Short story

The odd one (Vegli) by Urmila Pawar: A Marathi story in translation

Urmila Pawar

Translated by Veena Deo.

The Nation

Refugees in India

Home away from home: Sri Lankan Tamils and Rohingyas rebuild their lives

R.K. Radhakrishnan Emma Emily de Wit Joske G.F. Bunders

A recent study shows how two refugee groups in Tamil Nadu—Sri Lankan Tamils and Rohingyas—rebuilt their lives and ...

Labour issues

ITIL contract workers’ fight for survival

Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed

A protest for more than 100 days by a group of contract workers who were fired by ITI Limited because they formed a ...

CULTURE

Valmiki Pratibha: Reinterpreting a Tagore classic

Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay

The eminent Rabindra Sangeet exponent Debashish Raychaudhuri sends across a message of peace through his novel ...

COVID excess deaths

COVID casualties: The uncounted dead

T.K. Rajalakshmi

A Lancet study estimates that more COVID-19 deaths occurred in India than official statistics show, but the Central ...

Economy

BANKING

The missing Rs.2000 notes

Divya Trivedi

The Rs.2000 currency notes introduced at the time of the 2016 demonetisation are hardly seen anymore, and there are ...

MAHARASHTRA

Power tussle ensues in Maharashtra as MVA government counters BJP

Lyla Bavadam

Faced with pressure from the opposition BJP and on other fronts, the Maha Vikas Aghadi government in Maharashtra comes ...

Jammu & Kashmir

Jammu & Kashmir: The hidden agenda behind the delimitation exercise

Anando Bhakto

The Delimitation Commission’s proposals, which were published on March 14, appear to confirm the fears of Kashmir’s ...

THE HIJAB CASE

ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS 2022

Uttar Pradesh's Muslims make secular choice in Assembly election

Ziya Us Salam

Muslims of Uttar Pradesh seem to have chosen inclusive politics over identity politics, ...

ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS 2022

Goa in limbo as BJP takes time to form government post Assembly election

ANUPAMA KATAKAM

The BJP, assured of its position in Goa, is taking its time to form the government, in ...

ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS 2022

Congress in crisis following adverse results in Assembly elections

Venkitesh Ramakrishnan

The Congress appears to be facing internal turbulence following the recent debacle in the ...

Russia & Ukraine

The lingering war: Scope of Russia-Ukraine conflict widens

John Cherian

The scope of the war has widened, with the Russian military announcing that Western arms ...

Tribute

Interview: Aijaz Ahmad

In conversation with Aijaz Ahmad: Excerpts from an earlier interview

Jipson John Jitheesh P.M.

A conversation with Aijaz Ahmad: Excerpts from an interview Aijaz Ahmad gave to Jipson ...

Essay

Reading Arundhati Roy politically

Aijaz Ahmad

Reproduction of Aijaz Ahmad’s article published in Frontline dated August 8, 1997.

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