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Being Dalit, and a woman

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Destruction of wetlands

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Chinese calculations

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Capitalism’s slow end

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Kochi:Kerala : Gold ornaments on display at a jewellery shop in Kochi. Photo:Vipin Chandran

The golden 'Diwali gift'

Indian rupee banknotes of various denominations sit in a cash register at at the checkout counter of a Big Bazaar hypermarket, operated by Future Retail Ltd., in Mumbai, India, on Sunday, April 16, 2017. Future Retail, India's biggest department store chain, still has room to extend the rally that's more than doubled its market value this year. A shortage of cash hit purchases of soaps to cars after Prime Minister Narendra Modi in November junked high-value currency bills, driving shoppers to large-format stores like Future Retail that accept credit cards. Photographer: Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg

De-digitisation of India

New Delhi: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley speaks in the Lok Sabha on the second day of the second part of the Budget Session of Parliament in New Delhi on Friday. PTI Photo / TV GRAB (PTI3_10_2017_000043A)

The winner takes it all

Members of the congregation sing and pray for peace at a branch of the Pentecostal Assemblies of God church, inside the Mathare area of Nairobi, Kenya Sunday, Aug. 13, 2017. The Mathare area seems calm Sunday as pastors delivered Sunday Sermons following deadly post-election violence where rioters have battled police who fired live ammunition and tear gas. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Deras and evangelicals

How do we explain the extraordinary popularity of the bizarrely flamboyant Guru Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh Insan of the Dera Sacha Sauda, and the deep lo
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New Delhi, 04/07/2017: To go with Article by Soumya Pillai -- Sanitation workers in the municipal bodies of delhi, seen cleaning the drain with no safety gear, despite a ban on manual scavenging in New Delhi on July 04, 2017. Photo : R. V. Moorthy

Sanitation project a sham

HAMBURG, GERMANY - JULY 05: Prostestors dressed-up in grey clothes like Zombies attend an arts performance called '1000 Gestalten' demonstration prior the upcoming G20 summit on July 5, 2017 in Hamburg, northern Germany. In a two-hour show hundreds of actors took part in a creative public appeal for more humanity and self-responsibility ahead of the upcoming G20 summit. The G20 economic summit takes place in Hamburg July 7-8. (Photo by Friedemann Vogel-Pool/Getty Images)

Marching to a different drummer

Jobs or basic income?

LONDON, ENGLAND - MAY 28: People queue for check-in at Heathrow Airport Terminal 5 on May 28, 2017 in London, England. Thousands of passengers face a second day of travel disruption after a British Airways IT failure caused the airline to cancel most of its services. (Photo by Jack Taylor/Getty Images)

Computer outages

Chinese President Xi Jinping, third from left, walks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, third from right, and other leaders as they arrive for a group photo during the Belt and Road Forum outside Beijing, China, Monday, May 15, 2017. (Damir Sagolj/Pool Photo via AP)

One grand design

The real black money

New Delhi: Former Revenue Secretary, N.K. Singh presenting the Report on Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management (Representation of Report) to the Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs, Arun Jaitley in New Delhi on Monday. PTI Photo (PTI1_23_2017_000279B)

Fiscal hawks, flying blind?

The Apple logo is seen on the outside of Bill Graham Civic Auditorium before the start of an event in San Francisco, California on September 7, 2016. Apple on Wednesday is expected to introduce a new iPhone and perhaps a second-generation smartwatch as it polishes its lineup of devices to shine during the year-end shopping season. The rumor mill has been grinding away with talk of iPhone 7 models that will boast faster chips, more sophisticated cameras, and improved software while doing away with jacks for plugging in wired headphones. / AFP PHOTO / Josh Edelson

Countries vs corporations

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