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Guest Column: Reservation
Does the EWS verdict represent the revenge of the ruling classes?
Poverty can be tackled by simpler policy instruments such as MGNREGA, which the verdict misses.
Peter Ronald deSouza
Guest Column: Judiciary
Judiciary needs a proper orientation to overcome technological illiteracy
Technology has presented new challenges even as laws are constantly being expanded.
K. Chandru
India, this side
The Asian village: Fragile but resilient, holding on to its place
It has an instinct for survival that surpasses the existential desire of other social organisations.
Ganesh Devy
Counter Culture
Beyond the story of India’s Oscar entry ‘Chhello Show’
It reminds one how digital technology has cut cinema from the physical labour once intrinsic to it.
Prathyush Parasuraman
Guest Column: Media
A new low for media freedom in India
Criminalising journalism for investigative missteps is the thin end of the wedge for the profession.
N. Ram
Economic Perspectives
IMF endorses increase in US interest rates even as global crisis unfolds
Doing so can precipitate a recession that would be far more damaging in the South than in the North.
C.P. Chandrasekhar
Counter Culture
Reading Annie Ernaux theorises the personal essay while indulging in it
The Nobel Prize-winning French writer makes literary chic out of a worn-out and overused genre.
Prathyush Parasuraman
More stories from Columns
Birth of a movement: When Dakshinayana began from Dandi
It makes sense of the unease among writers when eliminating “thought adversaries” is on the rise.
Ganesh Devy
Idea of the spectacle
In the age of social media, what we consider “appearance” might become “essence”.
Prathyush Parasuraman
Can austerity end the Sri Lanka crisis?
IMF’s solution for Lankan debt crisis could be a case of the cure being worse than the disease.
C.P. Chandrasekhar
Concerns around abortion in India differ from those in the West
The Supreme Court order reaffirming safe and legal termination of pregnancy is welcome.
Arathi P.M.
Ramayana a living and contemporary narrative for the Kunkanas of Gujarat
The Kunkana Adivasi community lives on the border between Maharashtra and Gujarat.
Ganesh Devy
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