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Libya on edge

Ravaged by terrorism and hit hard by reduced oil exports, Libya finds itself in a chaotic situation.

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K.Satchidanandan

The politics of rereading

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Jingoism—from Jana Sangh to BJP

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K.Satchidanandan

The plural and the singular

With 184 mother tongues, 25 writing systems, and several traditions of oral and written literature, the diversity of India’s literary landscape can

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Milestone of sorts

The PPP-led government becomes the first civilian government to last its full term in Pakistan. But the compromises it had to make take away from t

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Loopholes in the law

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Missing Mwalimu

Tanzania has lost its governing ideology, socialism is humanity, as even the staunchest of Julius Mwalimu (teacher) Nyerere’s supporters adopt the ne

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Enduring legacy

Hugo Chavez’s economic legacy is not confined to Venezuela and seeks to forge new pathways towards the goal of establishing more equitable and just ec

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Science & Technology

'More than half the stars have planets'

Interview with David W. Latham of the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics.

Science & Technology

Indian search

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Anybody out there?

Since the mid-20th century scientists have been searching for potentially habitable extrasolar planets, or exoplanets. With the introduction of space-

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Ten years of hell

On the 10th anniversary of the U.S. invasion, Iraq remains strife-torn with its people steeped in misery.

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Campus fury

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Language of reason

The government abandons the controversial changes proposed in the scheme of the civil services examination.

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Buddhist treasures

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Justice, at last

The final verdict on the Mumbai serial blasts of 1993 comes from the Supreme Court 20 years after the event.

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Half-hearted exercise

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A legal home for the buffalo

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Safe colours movement

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Dharavi rocks!

A music band based in Mumbai’s Dharavi is helping its members, mostly ragpickers from the slum, nurture their talent and aspire to a better future.

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Amma canteens

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Disempowered Dalits

Dalit panchayat presidents continue to face caste-based discrimination and intimidation in several districts in Tamil Nadu.

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Ozone layer recovery

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Invisible labour

The book argues for a gendered and political perspective on the trajectory of development and its impact on women.

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Building trust

Hina Rabbani Khar, until recently Foreign Minister of Pakistan, speaks about her country’s commitment to normalise relations with India on every front

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For policy harmony

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Tipping point

How the Sri Lankan Tamils issue progressively pushed the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam into breaking its alliance with the Congress.

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Science & Technology

Tropical forests and global warming

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Chaotic plasmas & orderly magnetic fields

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Jinping style

The new administration in Beijing has already set out establishing a markedly different style of leadership as well as a different vision for the coun

End the witch-hunt

Science & Technology

Rare triple quasar

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No meeting ground

The Land Acquisition Bill runs into a roadblock as political parties fail to reach an agreement on the substantive features of the draft Bill or on th

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Man of paradoxes

French director Vladimir Leon’s film on M.N. Roy explores the trajectory of the revolutionary’s life and politics.

For a stronger PDS

The findings of the 66 National Sample Survey on "Public distribution system and other sources of household consumption" establish the need

Letters

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‘Lend me your ears’

That would be the earnest tenor of the discourse on radio in a situation where private radio channels can carry news and AIR is a public rather than a

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Cyprus under siege

Since those likely to lose from letting Cypriot banks slide and from imposing austerity on a small nation are not part of the core in the eurozone, an

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Nuclear questions

The book brings out the lack-lustre progress of India on the nuclear power front.

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Approaching socialism

A well-documented introduction to the approaches to socialism in different parts of the globe.

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