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Vol:30 Iss:04 Magazine Feb 23-Mar 8
In this issue
08-03-2013
50 STORIES
Sashi Kumar
Art and aura
The work of art in the age of digital representation (with apologies to Walter Benjamin).
Letters
Letters
Mars Rover
Curiosity drills rock for sample
Biochemistry
Unfolding of protein ‘filmed’
Books
A bold fatwa
The book holds terrorism and suicide bombings as totally un-Islamic acts.
Moral policing
The Lakshman rekha
The attack on a homestay in Mangalore clearly shows that Hindutva ideologues define the moral and cultural boundaries in coastal Karnataka.
India
Hype and hard facts
The spate of suicides by farmers in Saurashtra and continuing agrarian distress give the lie to Narendra Modi’s assertions of Gujarat being a develope
World Affairs
In search of a dream
A debate in China about what vision should guide the country’s politics in the next decade has shed some light on how the new leader Xi Jinping plans
General Issues
Distress and death
Cauvery water dispute
Delta’s anguish
Tamil Nadu announces a relief package for farmers in the Cauvery delta even as their leaders criticise the Centre for not finding a distress-sharing f
C.P. Chandrasekhar
No standards, not poor
The rising tide of litigation in the U.S. against ratings agencies could force an end to, if not lead to an overhaul of, a system that makes scores pr
Politics
How a mosque became a temple
A timely and revealing book on the takeover of the Babri Masjid on the night of December 22-23, 1949. The authors’ political sophistication emerges fr
Lead Story
Pranab’s record
The spotlight is now on the mercy pleas of 13 convicts.
Lead Story
‘Serious dialogue need of the hour’
Interview with Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami, CPI(M) MLA, Jammu and Kashmir.
Lead Story
Unanswered questions
General Issues
Piecemeal approach
India
Acid horror
Lead Story
Making of a ‘hero’
For Kashmiris, Afzal Guru is a martyr. For them he is one “who was condemned unheard”.
Wildlife
Living with lions
While the continued growth of the lion population in the Gir Protected Area and the dispersal of lions bring cheer, issues relating to human-carnivore
World Affairs
American Archipelago
The U.S. has roped in many countries in Africa, Asia and Europe for its programme of torture in its War on Terror. Such widespread complicity will mak
Books
On city margins
India
Violence and then biases
Jayati Ghosh
Dangers of austerity
The widespread acceptance of the goal of fiscal austerity is bad news for macroeconomic rebalancing that would allow recovery in the currently defici
India
Orphaned infants
Space
Black holes growing faster
Lead Story
Back to the brink
The rise of militancy and the alienation of people in Kashmir can be traced back to the hanging of JKLF leader Maqbool Butt in 1984. Although an uneas
Lead Story
‘Only fringe elements wanted him hanged’
Interview with S.A.R. Geelani.
Lead Story
Colonial legacy
Retribution as a basis for criminal punishment is a legacy of the past. It has no place in an enlightened future.
Books
Of life and death
The books in review dwell on state arbitrariness in criminal justice and the subject of an effective alternative to capital punishment.
India
Official indifference
Cinema
Jingoism as history
Argo, despite pretending to be historically accurate, is only an action film in drag in which the Iranians are, for the most part, dangerous and anti-
World Affairs
Vacancy in the Vatican
World Affairs
Nuclear test & Western ‘tremors’
Suryanelli case
A rehearing in Kerala
A highly sensitive political issue comes to the fore again in the State with the Supreme Court setting aside a High Court order acquitting all except
Lead Story
Playing ‘hard state’
The Congress’ calculation is clear: it wants to appropriate the “hard on terror” image that the BJP and its prime ministerial aspirant, Narendra Modi,
Communalism
Living in fear
Muslims are at the receiving end of Hindu Gujjar highhandedness in Rajasthan’s Bhilwara district.
Agriculture
Low-arsenic rice
Lead Story
Hanged by stealth
The secret execution of Afzal Guru, convicted in the Parliament House attack case, makes a mockery of the constitutional principles of the rule of law
Kochi-Muziris Biennale
Life and art
The Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India’s first such show, provides a much-needed platform for a vital inquiry into today’s art by bringing together artists
Gujarat's growth
Hype and hard facts
The spate of suicides by farmers in Saurashtra and continuing agrarian distress give the lie to Narendra Modi’s assertions of Gujarat being a develope
Controversy
Caste is in the air
Ashis Nandy offers a supreme example of how attitudes generated by one’s position in the caste system do not change.
India
Tamil Nadu: Swayamvaram for a cause
World Affairs
Mitigated sentence
David Headley, a key conspirator in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, gets a 35-year prison term in the U.S., a much lighter sentence than what India wa
World Affairs
Momentous journey
The fact that an Iranian President was in Cairo after 34 acrimonious years imparts a sense of history and drama to Ahmadinejad’s visit.
Data Stories
Cotton crisis
Is King Cotton likely to lose its hold over growers in India? While the jury is out, signs from the farm and the market are not too encouraging.
Art
Amrita’s village
Saraya, a little-known village in Uttar Pradesh’s Gorakhpur district, will always be remembered for Amrita Sher-Gil’s masterpieces. A tribute on her 1
India
Mirage of development
Social development indicators in Gujarat are poor, proving that development in the State is lopsided.
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India’s oscillating opposition and the dynamic evolution of protest politics
The crisis of the secular opposition
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