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In this issue
03-05-2013
50 STORIES
Economic Perspectives
Looking for money in news
The digital revolution is fundamentally transforming the news as business even as the once-dominant print news segment wrestles with a broken revenue
Environment
First independent confirmation of global land warming
Phycology
Directing algae
Physics
Exotically shaped nuclei
Biology
Seven sexes of an organism
Kerala
Daughter deficit?
Is there a shift in the attitude of Kerala society towards the value of daughters? Is son preference spreading in a State once known to be above extre
New Delhi
End of a fast
Lead Story
Inconsistent decisions
Increasing workload, a higher rate of admission, and constitution of multiple two-judge Division Benches have resulted in a huge increase in the numbe
Crystallography
Breakthrough in crystallography
Lead Story
Dissenting note
In place of judicial impact assessment, what India needs is “judicial use assessment” to measure to what extent people have actually used courts to
Books
Flawed greatness
Two volumes that cover, among other things, a period of tension in India-China relations over the boundary issue and Nehru’s role in it.
West Asia
Inside the matrix
Israel’s facts on the ground, Palestine’s people on the ground.
Politics
Soaring assets
DELHI
Radiation row
Lead Story
Age, seniority, diversity
Criteria that were never conceived in the Constituent Assembly now determine who gets to sit on India’s apex court. Each of these unwritten qualificat
Syria
Promoting war
The violence in Syria escalates to a new high as the United States and its Western allies airlift lethal weaponry to the rebels.
Public Health
Landmark verdict
The Supreme Court’s ruling against Novartis’ patent claim for the cancer drug Glivec paves the way for generic drug companies to keep crucial, life-sa
Social Issues
‘Is the bias so severe as to cause death?’
Interview with Dr T.K. Sundari Ravindran, activist researcher on gender, health and equity issues.
Science & Technology
The oldest light
Assembly Elections
High-stakes race
The Congress enjoys a slight edge in the fragmented political landscape of Karnataka, where the May 5 Assembly elections are expected to throw up some
Sugar Industry
More decontrol
Lead Story
PIL losing out
Has public interest litigation lost its direction and abandoned its original constituency, the marginalised and the underprivileged sections of societ
Social Justice
NAC recommendations gathering dust
Books
Muslim bogey
The book provides powerful intellectual tools to Indian secularists in the struggle against reducing Muslims to “the other” in polity.
Defence
Failing to deliver
India’s indigenous defence research and production capabilities have not kept pace with the country’s military requirements.
Lead Story
‘A people’s court’
Lead Story
Misunderstood relationship
As far as substantive criticism of decisions is concerned, there ought to be no restraints on commentary, whether in the news media or elsewhere. All
Lead Story
Lessons from Novartis case
Social Justice
Seeking consensus
Interview with Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh.
Lead Story
Supreme Court and the aam aadmi
It is the goal of social revolution that connects the aam aadmi to the judiciary and to its highest institution, the Supreme Court of India.
Policy Issues
Illusory rights
PESA, which is seen as an enabling law for tribal self-governance, is violated brazenly by both the Union government and State governments in the name
Cover Story
A court adrift
The Supreme Court by and large remains popular. Yet, if one digs a bit, beneath the surface is an institution that has strayed from its mission and ma
Letter from America
Yankee Hindutva
To Narendra Modi’s fan base among proud Hindutva supporters in the U.S., his unique combination of free-market rhetoric and cultural nationalism appea
Korean Peninsula
Cloud in the sun
The Korean peninsula is on the boil again following North Korea’s nuclear test earlier this year and the month-long, unusually threatening U.S.-South
Social Justice
PESA and pressures
Books
Migrants and culture
The essays will be of immense value to students of diaspora studies as they encompass significant cultural transformations over a long period of histo
Industrial Pollution
Sterlite in trouble
The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board orders the closure of its copper smelter unit in Tuticorin even as the Supreme Court stays a 2010 High Court or
Data Card
Flight of sparrows
A nationwide survey finds that the common house sparrow is not so common any more.
Millennium Development Goals
Halfway measures
The Bali meeting of the High-Level Panel designated to prepare the post-2015 global framework to the MDG offers little hope of a rethink on the develo
Books
Kashmir debate
An in-depth study of the real Kashmir problem, with the focus on “Azad Kashmir”, backed by facts and figures.
Science
Almost perfect
The precise picture delivered by Planck conforms most spectacularly to the expectations of the Standard Model of the universe, but the evidence of ano
Letters
Letters
Conservation
Invaluable data
Conservation
Art and science of taxidermy
Spotlight
Stuff of legends
Van Ingen & Van Ingen of Mysore were the master taxidermists of colonial India at a time when hunting was a thriving sport, and their work was pri
New Wave
Tamil cinema’s double act
In Tamil cinema, a band of directors has been quietly making films grounded in local realities and away from big-star formulas but working within t
Thatcher
Lamenting a legacy
Margaret Thatcher was a deeply divisive figure as Britain’s longest serving Prime Minister, with her pro-industry, anti-people policies.
Galapagos
Paradise for endemic wildlife
Editor's Note
Editor’s Note
WEST BENGAL
A death in custody
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