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Manmohan Singh
In this issue
31-05-2013
44 STORIES
COVID-19 Update: Tamil Nadu
COVID second wave: Number of worries for Tamil Nadu
The State is looking at tough times ahead as it grapples with rising cases of hospitalisation and oxygen scarcity.
India-China
Defused by diplomacy
The recent tensions between Indian and Chinese troops along the Line of Actual Control end without a shot being fired thanks to calm diplomacy.
World Affairs
Enter Israel
Israel attacks Syria’s armed forces in Damascus, openly involving itself in the neighbouring country’s domestic politics, even as the West uses the bo
Nature
Ecological hotspot
United States
A promise breached
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
Unmediated
True archivist of cinema
Mohd Afzal Guru
A life rendered 'extinct'
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
Lead Story
Face-saving report
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
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
Jayati Ghosh
Privatising the ICDS?
Politics
Despite Modi
Books
For radical freedom
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
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
Lead Story
In black and white
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 & Pakistan
Death and honour
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
Social Issues
‘A dangerous strategy’
Books
Mapping Sahmat
The book traces how Sahmat, an avant-garde experiment, offers an aesthetic of resistance in times of fundamental transition.
Politics
Sway in Lingayat land
Bangladesh
Collapse of safety
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
Politics
‘A vote against the BJP’
Natural Resources
Price on water
The UDF government in Kerala proposes yet again to allow private companies to exploit public water resources for private profit.
Karnataka chooses
Southern shock
The shoddy performance of the BJP during its five-year rule ensures a stunning victory for the Congress in Karnataka.
Fiji
Coup of sorts
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
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
The State points to the Indus Water Treaty for its severe power deficit and demands compensation from the Centre.
India
Defensive mode
Manual scavenging
Death in the gutter
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
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
Lead Story
Small players, big games
Arts & Culture
A koothu enthusiast
Lead Story
Pits of sleaze
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
Books
Planning failures
Journalist-economist D.K. Rangnekar’s impressions of the economic policies of the first three and a half decades after Independence.
Lead Story
Shackles on CBI
The investigating agency is in the dock for compromising its independence from the political executive while investigating the coal scam.
Books
What the Romans can teach us
Two ancient volumes on politics that are strikingly relevant to modern times, especially to the Indian situation.
Tamil Nadu
Stoking caste flames
Hostilities between Dalits and Vanniyars erupt again in Tamil Nadu after the Pattali Makkal Katchi’s attack on a Dalit village.
Lead Story
Age of graft
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
Lead Story
Bribe and blood ties
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
Politics
For a clean, pro-poor government
Lead Story
Drowning in scams
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
Archive
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Movie trailers: The unofficial manifestos of our time
Viral fever: The curious spectacle of campaign films
‘There is a groundswell of support for the RJD’: Tejashwi Yadav
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Tastes of the earth
Did Periyar call for a genocide of Brahmins?
‘Enlightenment’: A Marathi story in translation
Close encounters with the third kind
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SBI’s reluctance to reveal electoral bond data raises concerns about its independence and reliability
Essays by Prabir Purkayastha: Defending reason with passion
How homogenisation can flatten knowledge systems
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Why the tiger-human conflict rages in Bandipur and Nagarahole
Minimum Support Price: A question of how, not why
Fali S. Nariman (1929-2024): A life dedicated to the Constitution’s promise
Farmers’ protest: It’s a battle against servitude
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