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Dispatches

Kolkata club football icon Chibuzor of Nigeria dies of a heart attack

Tribal women stage novel protest against clearing of plantations for a mining project

DRDO successfully flight test’s booster missile propulsion system

Calcutta High Court orders CBI probe into Bhadu Sheikh’s murder, which triggered the Rampurhat massacre

E.U. chief offers Ukraine fast track to bloc membership

Explained: Could Yemen peace talks spell the end of years of civil war?

Civil society under pressure worldwide: report

Explained: How climate change is making allergy season worse

Yemen: U.N. seeks $80 million to prevent 'imminent' oil spill

Pakistan: PM Imran Khan says he accepts court ruling, blames U.S.

Ukraine conflict

Signs of hope: Negotiations could lead to an end to Ukraine conflict

John Cherian
As the war in Ukraine enters its second month, there is a glimmer of hope that negotiations between the warring sides could end the conflict. This would be in everybody’s best interests as the harsh sanctions imposed on Russia are likely to have an ...
Common University Entrance Test

CUET challenge: Attempt to centralise education and undermine federalism

T.K. Rajalakshmi

The proposed Common University Entrance Test is a move ...

AGRICULTURE

Supreme Court-appointed committee report on three farm laws reiterates Modi government's stance

T.K. Rajalakshmi

The report of the Supreme Court-appointed committee on the ...

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CUET challenge: Attempt to centralise education and undermine federalism

T.K. Rajalakshmi

Supreme Court-appointed committee report on three farm laws reiterates Modi government's stance

T.K. Rajalakshmi

Targeting young minds: BJP plans to introduce Bhagavad Gita as subject in Gujarat

Anupama Katakam
The Gujarat government’s plan to introduce the Bhagavad Gita as a compulsory subject in school leads ...

Hijab verdict: Lifting the veil on essentiality

Ziya Us Salam
With so many sections of society approaching the judiciary for redress of grievances, the concept of ...

Stench of brutality in West Bengal’s Rampurhat

Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay
The arson in West Bengal’s Rampurhat where eight women and a child were killed in internecine ...

Dispatches

Kolkata club football icon Chibuzor of Nigeria dies of a heart attack

Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay

The dimunitive Chibuzor was one of the deadliest forces inside the penalty box. Gifted ...

Tribal women stage novel protest against clearing of plantations for a mining project

Ravi Sharma

A small group of tribal women staged a novel but macabre and scary protest on April 8 at ...

DRDO successfully flight test’s booster missile propulsion system

Ravi Sharma

According to a DRDO spokesperson, the test successfully demonstrated the reliable ...

Birbhum violence

Calcutta High Court orders CBI probe into Bhadu Sheikh’s murder, which triggered the Rampurhat massacre

Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay

In a major development relating to the Rampurhat violence in West Bengal’s Birbhum ...

Ukraine Conflict

E.U. chief offers Ukraine fast track to bloc membership

Deutsche Welle

It is the first trip by senior E.U. officials since Russia's invasion of Ukraine started.

West Asia

Explained: Could Yemen peace talks spell the end of years of civil war?

Deutsche Welle

With the Houthi militia remaining on the sidelines, there's limited hope for the upcoming ...

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 ...

Editor's Pick

TRIBUTE: MANNA DEY

Haunting melodies

PARTHA CHATTERJEE

Manna Dey, the 2007 Dada Saheb Phalke Award winner, has enthralled discerning listeners ...

Tribute: Bhupen Hazarika

Renaissance man

ARUP KUMAR DUTTA

Through haunting, lilting, often joyous melodies, Bhupen Hazarika (1926-2011) communicated ...

K.J. Yesudas

Celestial singer

R. KRISHNAKUMAR

In a remarkable career spanning 50 years, K.J. Yesudas has endeared himself to all music ...

Sunil Gavaskar

Gavaskar: India's Greatest Cricketer

KANTA MURALI

Little separates Kapil Dev, Sachin Tendulkar and Sunil Gavaskar in terms of record.

Viswanathan Anand

King Anand

RAKESH RAO

Viswanathan Anand becomes the first non-Russian undisputed world champion and the worlds ...

Interview: V.S. Ramachandran

In the mind of the brain

SASHI KUMAR

A conversation with Professor V.S. Ramachandran, world-renowned explorer of the human ...

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

Interview: M.A. Sumanthiran

‘They kept denying that there was a crisis’

R.K. Radhakrishnan In Colombo

Interview with M.A. Sumanthiran, Tamil National Alliance leader.

Cover Story

Economic refugees

Passage to India: Arrival of economic refugees from Sri Lanka looms large

R.K. Radhakrishnan

Intelligence agencies believe that up to 2,000 economic refugees from crisis-torn Sri Lanka will arrive in India.

Politics

Bihar

The BJP's ‘swallowing’ tactics in Bihar

Venkitesh Ramakrishnan

The BJP poaches all three MLAs of the Vikassheel Insaan Party in Bihar, sending a strong signal that there is no change in its decades-old strategy of ...

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 ...

Short story

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

Urmila Pawar

Translated by Veena Deo.

Books/Interview

Interview with Sanjoy Hazarika and Madhurima Dhanuka: ‘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

Book Excerpt: 'Retelling Time: Alternative Temporalities from Premodern South Asia'

Shonaleeka Kaul

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

World Affairs

India & China

The way forward in India-China relations

K.S. Subramanian

To reach a settlement with China, India must promote an honest discussion about the history of the boundary dispute and ...

WORLD AFFAIRS

Conservatives’ turn in South Korea with Yoon Suk-yeol's victory

John Cherian

The conservative Yoon Suk-yeol, who fuelled his election campaign with a rhetoric of confrontation with the North ...

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 ...

Cover Story

COVER STORY: Sri Lanka's worsening crisis

Roots of Sri Lanka’s economic crisis

R. RAMAKUMAR

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

Cover Story

Cover Story: Sri Lanka's worsening crisis

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 government’s attention ...

Cover Story

Foreign exchange crisis

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 earnings have, among ...

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 ...

Arts & Culture

CULTURE

Valmiki Pratibha: Reinterpreting a Tagore classic

Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay

The eminent Rabindra Sangeet exponent Debashish Raychaudhuri sends across a message of ...

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 ...

BANKING

The missing Rs.2000 notes

Divya Trivedi

The Rs.2000 currency notes introduced at the time of the 2016 demonetisation are hardly ...

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 ...

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 ...

THE HIJAB CASE

Judicial letdown: Karnataka High Court upholds ban on hijab in classrooms

Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed

The Karnataka High Court verdict upholding the ban on the hijab in the classroom on the ...

The Nation

ANTI-CONVERSION LAW

Targeting minorities: BJP government's anti-conversion Bill in Haryana

T.K. Rajalakshmi

The BJP government of Manohar Lal Khattar in Haryana introduces an anti-conversion Bill ...

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 ...

Afghan File
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The fragility of contemporary capitalism

The Ukraine situation is having unexpected economic consequences, such as an explosion in nickel prices, and a prolonged war could be catastrophic for a financialised world economy mired in speculation.

Slideshow

Monarchs of the mountains

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 ...
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