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Vol:30 Iss:03 Magazine Feb 09-22

In this issue

22-02-201338 STORIES

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Letter from Beirut

Grave silence

UNESCO has postponed a Simon Wiesenthal Centre-sponsored Jewish Exhibit but gives the SWC the green light to destroy the Mamilla Cemetery in Jerusale

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Cultural intolerance

Meek submission

The growing culture of intolerance and the State government’s inability to deal with it once again come to the fore as Salman Rushdie is barred from v

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Colonial comeback

The French intervention in Mali, a country basically in the throes of a civil war, is sought to be painted as part of the West’s ongoing global “war o

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Science & Technology

TB: Hide and seek

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Science & Technology

Record-setting p-type transistor

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Literary Festival: Lit for Life is back

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Science & Technology

Data storage in DNA

Science & Technology

An ozone destroyer

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Pioneering reformer

A concise, informative and lucid account of Rammohun Roy’s life and times.

Trouble spot

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Two parties, one vision

The difference between the Congress and the BJP is getting blurred on the matter of economic policy. Will Rahul Gandhi give the Congress a new distinc

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In focus, the human being

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A city held by time

Pablo Bartholomew’s photographs in the recent exhibition in New Delhi, The Calcutta Diaries, create an imagination of a city living its history and it

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How not to urbanise

The model of urban development that has been adopted recently in China takes little from the preserving and conserving approaches found in Europe that

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K.Satchidanandan

Fighting the stereotype

About novels that deal directly or obliquely with Muslim life and ultimately about life in general but yet have something specific about them that con

A milestone in a campaign

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Unearthing a culture

Recent excavations at the Moghalmari site in West Bengal’s Pashchim Medinipur district have yielded extensive evidence of an ancient Buddhist culture.

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In harmony with the past

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Rhetoric and reality

Can Rahul Gandhi transform the Congress by making it an open system that encourages initiative and talent? His track record as Youth Congress general

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Tamil Nadu: Dalits assert their rights

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A creative ferment

The Quran & modernity

The Quran, the Word of God, is understood only by the fallible mind of man.

Education: A report card

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Distorted vision

The farcical Hindi comedy Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola is a terrible attempt to Indianise Bertolt Brecht.

NGOs: A silent scam

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Ethics matter

It was his unwavering devotion to his craft that won Yeats a place in literary immortality. As a man, however, his legacy is far less unequivocal.

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Healing the wounds

The International Crimes Tribunal in Bangladesh gives its first verdict in the crimes against humanity committed during the war of liberation in 1971.

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'Significant for its stucco decorations'

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Experiments with law

A study of the constitutionalism of the nine countries of South Asia, its roots in colonialism and its later revisions and omissions.

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Austerity’s pain

The introduction of a dual pricing mechanism for diesel will compel bulk consumers to buy the fuel at market prices, and the overall impact of this on

Letters

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Jewish spring?

Disenchanted with Netanyahu’s neoliberal economic policies, an assertive Israeli middle class votes for change, giving the centrist Yesh Atid party a

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Launching a change?

A recent law passed in the U.S. that will ease the export controls on commercial satellites has the potential to make it simpler for ISRO to exploit

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An action plan

The Justice Verma Committee comes up with progressive recommendations in its review of the laws relating to sexual assaults against women.

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Things fall apart

The UPA-II’s perceived lack of direction and a clear policy framework has meant that the centre does not hold. The absence of cohesion in the Congres

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Parivar’s predicament

Internal divisions have produced a chaotic leadership situation for the Congress’ main rival, the Bharatiya Janata Party, ahead of the 2014 elections

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Leader by chance

The BJP needs a big makeover to present an effective challenge to the Congress. Is Rajnath Singh, the new party president, equal to the task?

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Echoes in Algeria

As Al Qaeda-aligned terrorists storm a gas refinery in Algeria using weapons supplied by France and Britain, the government retaliates with a military

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Political window-dressing

Bereft of a comprehensive political vision that can capture the popular imagination, the two mainstream national parties resort to cosmetic image reco

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