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COVER STORY
31-05-2013
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Manmohan Singh
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Briefing
United States
A promise breached
World Affairs
Barack Obama blames U.S. lawmakers for blocking his moves to close down the Guantanamo Bay prison, but refuses to use his executive powers to overrule
Tamil Nadu
Sivakasi’s shame
India
Unmediated
True archivist of cinema
Sashi Kumar
Mohd Afzal Guru
A life rendered 'extinct'
India
The right to counsel begins from the moment of arrest. From the time Afzal Guru was arrested in 2001 to the filing of a charge sheet in court, he had
Letters
Letters
Face-saving report
Lead Story
The JPC report on the 2G scam selectively uses information to arrive at conclusions in favour of the UPA government, indict the CAG for its "pres
If the world were 100 people
World as 100
Data Stories
This edition of Data Card is inspired by the "If the world were 100 people" concept that the website www.100people.org came up with when the
Privatising the ICDS?
Jayati Ghosh
Despite Modi
Politics
For radical freedom
Books
The book, comprising 12 speeches Angela Davis delivered between 1994 and 2009, brings out her philosophy of freedom and justice.
Chit fund scam
Deposit and despair
India
The financial fraud involving the Saradha Group, in which lakhs of rural people lost their hard-earned money, puts Mamata Banerjee’s government in Wes
In black and white
Lead Story
A recent Cobrapost expose reveals the involvement of banks and insurance companies in a nationwide money-laundering racket, and the failure of the reg
West Bengal
Death on a wire
India
India & Pakistan
Death and honour
World Affairs
The honours showered on Sarabjit Singh following his murder in a Pakistani prison raise the question whether all this was the Indian state’s reward fo
‘A dangerous strategy’
Social Issues
Mapping Sahmat
Books
The book traces how Sahmat, an avant-garde experiment, offers an aesthetic of resistance in times of fundamental transition.
Sway in Lingayat land
Politics
Bangladesh
Collapse of safety
World Affairs
A building collapses, killing 500 people and leaving several maimed for life and, in the process, bringing to the world’s notice the horrible working
‘A vote against the BJP’
Politics
Natural Resources
Price on water
India
The UDF government in Kerala proposes yet again to allow private companies to exploit public water resources for private profit.
Karnataka chooses
Southern shock
Politics
The shoddy performance of the BJP during its five-year rule ensures a stunning victory for the Congress in Karnataka.
Fiji
Coup of sorts
World Affairs
The Bainimarama regime rejects the draft constitution and orders deregistration of political parties, much against its stated stance of restoring demo
Amrita Sher-Gil's modernity
Magyar connection
Arts & Culture
Amrita Sher-Gil’s modernity was shaped not only by her engagement with the Indian reality, but also by her early exposure to Hungarian literature and
Jammu & Kashmir
Power point
India
The State points to the Indus Water Treaty for its severe power deficit and demands compensation from the Centre.
Defensive mode
India
Manual scavenging
Death in the gutter
Social Issues
The death of two workers in a sewage tank in Chennai revives the call for the eradication of manual scavenging.
Folk arts in peril
Shadow play
Arts & Culture
To adapt to changing tastes or not. That is the dilemma facing Tamil Nadu’s folk theatre as television and cinema are edging it out even in its tradit
Small players, big games
Lead Story
A koothu enthusiast
Arts & Culture
Pits of sleaze
Lead Story
Systematic diversion of community resources to the private sector in the name of growing energy demands has been the trend since the advent of neolibe
Planning failures
Books
Journalist-economist D.K. Rangnekar’s impressions of the economic policies of the first three and a half decades after Independence.
Shackles on CBI
Lead Story
The investigating agency is in the dock for compromising its independence from the political executive while investigating the coal scam.
What the Romans can teach us
Books
Two ancient volumes on politics that are strikingly relevant to modern times, especially to the Indian situation.
Tamil Nadu
Stoking caste flames
Social Issues
Hostilities between Dalits and Vanniyars erupt again in Tamil Nadu after the Pattali Makkal Katchi’s attack on a Dalit village.
Age of graft
Lead Story
Corruption tends to be greater in periods when there is a state-engineered redistribution of wealth in favour of a few at the explicit or implicit exp
Bribe and blood ties
Lead Story
The UPA government, which has become a byword for nepotistic and corrupt governance, is rocked by one more case involving a nephew pulling the strings
For a clean, pro-poor government
Politics
Drowning in scams
Lead Story
The UPA-II government has set a record of sorts in corruption scams and administrative malfeasance, but its leadership remains apparently unmoved.
Delhi
Bill for hawkers
India
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Feb 10, 2023
Hills of Hassan district plagued by perennial human-animal conflict
P. Sainath: ‘I wrote this book for the people in it’
Editor’s Note
Shah Rukh Khan: The new action hero on the block
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Jan 13, 2023
Sri Lankan Tamil Hindus seek India’s support as Sinhala government targets temples
Aggressive Koreas leave peninsula tense
Sex, lies, and chicken curry
A chat over tikki
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Jan 27, 2023
The Great Land Grab in Jammu and Kashmir
Great Nicobar development projects disregard risk in earthquake-prone area
How the Serendipity Arts Festival celebrated the spirit of community
Pele (1940-2022): At his feet, football transformed into poetry
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