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G.N. Saibaba in Hyderabad on August 23, 2024.

G.N. Saibaba’s death is an injustice

What was the real crime of Saibaba? He constantly raised his voice for the human rights of the weak, the oppressed and the wronged by the system.

Sri Lanka’s new president and leader of National People’s Power Anura Kumara Dissanayake during voting in Colombo on September 21, 2024.

The wizardry of Anura Kumara Dissanayake, Sri Lanka’s new President

From a 3.2 per cent vote share in 2019 to winning Presidential election 2024, his meteoric rise had observers marvelling at his electoral alchemy.

R.K. Radhakrishnan

Sri Lanka Presidential Election 2024

Anura Kumara Dissanayake is Sri Lanka’s new President

JVP leader secures historic victory, overcoming second preference vote count and marking a seismic shift in Sri Lankan politics.

R.K. Radhakrishnan

ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES

India’s superpower dream faces steep economic hurdles

Successive governments have neglected the basic drivers of growth denting claims that India will become an “advanced nation” very soon.

C.P. Chandrasekhar

Madha candidate Dhairyashil Mohite-Patil, NCP leader Sharad Pawar, Dahairyashil’s uncle Vijaysinh Mohite-Patil, and former Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde. The Mohite-Patils have considerable influence in western Maharashtra.

Can the reunion of Maharashtra’s erstwhile ruling classes challenge BJP’s entrenched dominance?

The Deshmukhs and the Patils are silently uniting to regain power, marking the start of a revival that largely favours the Congress.

Consent or coercion? Looking back at the Constituent Assembly debate on Uniform Civil Code

The 1948 debate exposes the tensions between majority rule and minority rights in a young democracy, which has important takeaways for today.

Sambaiah Gundimeda

The Citizenship Amendment Act: A tumultuous journey

The implementation of the controversial CAA 2019, weeks before the Lok Sabha election, sparks outrage and protests against its discriminatory nature.

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K Ullas Karanth, conservation Zoologist and a leading tiger expert, in Bengaluru on July 11, 2017.

Much ado about a logo

How a logo on a T-shirt in an old photograph of a former employee has put WCS-India into a nervous flutter.

Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is being greeted by ex-judge Abhijit Gangopadhyay, who has joined BJP, during a public meeting at Kawakhali ground, in Siliguri, on March 9, 2024.

From the bench to the BJP: The Kolkata judge who has joined politics

Popular for anti-Trinamool verdicts while in office, Abhijit Gangopadhyay’s embrace of BJP after quitting puts a question mark on some of his rulings.

Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay

The initial trends of the KMS 2023 survey indicate that there is a doubling of student migration, both internal and international, from the figures in 2018. Here, students at a Study Abroad Education Fair in Kochi in 2010.

Kerala’s brain drain: How student migration impacts society

Kerala’s student migration survey exposes potential social woes: ageing population, shrinking birthrates, and the deskilling of students going abroad.

BJP supporters celebrate after Uttarakhand passed the uniform civil code, in Dehradun on February 7, 2024.

Uttarakhand Uniform Civil Code: Testing the waters?

While the government claims the UCC is a milestone for women’s rights, critics say it infringes upon personal freedoms, and targets minorities.

Youth Congress activists protest against BJP over alleged illegal and unlawful fund transfer through electoral bonds in recent years in Kolkata on February 16, 2024.

Electoral bonds verdict: Opposition cheers transparency win, while BJP raises concerns

As Supreme Court declares the scheme unconstitutional, BJP expresses reservations about donor confidentiality and retrospective disclosure.

T.K. Rajalakshmi

IscS and SUF-mediated iron-sulphur cluster biogenesis controls persistence of Mtb.

Tuberculosis has a gene link

In this edition of Science Notebook, we also see how an international team of scientists has detected the most powerful cosmic ray in more than three

R. Ramachandran

Daily wage construction workers wait for their transportation during morning hours in Mumbai on February 1, 2024.

Shinde government accused of blocking development funds in Opposition constituencies in Maharashtra

BJP-led regime in Maharashtra diverting crucial funds for political gain, leaving millions deprived, allege Opposition parties.

Central Reserve Police Force (officer guards the entrace to the site of the mosque demolished by DDA in Mehrauli, New Delhi on February 1, 2024.

Delhi Development Authority wipes out centuries-old mosque in Mehrauli

DDA says Akhunji Masjid, believed to be built during Razia Sultana’s reign, lacked official heritage status and was an illegal building.

A life-size statue of Periyar placed at the entrance of a bookstall in the 47th edition of Chennai Book Fair organised by Booksellers and Publishers Association of South India.

Periyar wins yet more hearts and minds at the 2024 Chennai Book Fair

As the threats of communalism and casteism become more pronounced, Periyar is being revived by youngsters who hope for a better, fairer future.

Siddarth Muralidharan

John Pilger: A Voice for the Silenced

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Maharashtra Eknath Shinde celebrates with his supporters after the State Assembly Speaker, Rahul Narwekar, held that in the Shiv Sena MLA disqualification case, the Shiv Sena faction led by Shinde was the “real political party” when rival groups emerged in June 2022.

Maharashtra Speaker’s verdict in Shiv Sena MLA disqualification case stirs up political controversy

The verdict, viewed as politically charged, has intensified the rift between the Eknath Shinde and Uddhav Thackeray factions.

Wrestler Sakshi Malik during a press conference after Sanjay Singh, an associate of BJP MP and former chief of Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, became the new President of WFI, in New Delhi, on December 21, 2023.

Turmoil at WFI threatens country’s Olympic prospects

Thanks to Brij Bhushan Singh’s continuing sway over the WFI, India’s wrestling medals hang in the balance just months short of the 2024 Paris Olympics

Chander Shekhar Luthra

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