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A bowler’s story

Recollections of a first-class cricketer on growing up with the game and learning from India’s legendary spinners.

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B.B. King: He was the blues

For nearly seven decades the great bluesman B.B. King (1925-2015) strode the music world like a colossus, attaining the unquestioned adulation of fans

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Her story

After winning her right to bear her child, an intellectually disabled rape survivor proves pessimists wrong about the child’s well-being.

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Cut and thrust

Censorship is not just about a paternal state trying to regulate an “infantile” public. The men with the scissors have played a central role in the ma

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Rituparno Ghosh: Different and daring

One of Rituparno Ghosh’s primary contribution is that he almost single-handedly rescued the Bengali film industry from the morass of mediocrity into w

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Discovering Khirsara’s Harappan glory

Excavations in Khirsara village in western Kutch reveal a "major industrial hub" and trading centre of the mature Harappan phase.

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The slow regress in banking

FL28NAYUDU

‘It has become a real business’

Interview with Ashis Nandy, scholar of psychoanalysis and Indian society and author of 'The Tao of Cricket: On Games of Destiny and the Destiny of Gam

FL28SATYANANDA

CIC vs parties

Letters

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A Trinamool victory

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Behind Occupy Taksim Square

Capital and conflict in Turkey

The Taksim Square occupation movement in Turkey makes explicit the structural contradiction between the ruling elites with their neoliberal leanings a

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408-million-year-old fish fossil in Spain

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Creating chaos to harvest light

Fukushima Study

Radiation risks low

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INSAF suspended

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Political reactions

Parties cry foul

FL28SEED

Seeds of fortune

With a turnover of over Rs.15,000 crore, the Indian seed industry ranks fifth in the world. Given the rising population and consumption of food in the

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Tackling betting

Corporate push to make betting legal

In an elaborate report prepared with the help of legal experts, FICCI urges the government to legalise and regulate betting on sports, which it claims

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No, Prime Minister

The highest traditions of parliamentary democracy require that the Prime Minister be a person elected to the Lok Sabha. It was also a solemn declarat

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Flawed vision

At the root of the UPA government’s continued failure to defeat left-wing extremism is the absence of a clear assessment of the ground reality and a l

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Dialogues with history

Subodh Kerkar’s installations are meditations on the colonial past, nature and history where the boundary between art and life stands disrupted.

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Climbdown on Syria

As ripples from the Syrian conflict threaten to destabilise pro-Western regimes in the region, the West seems to finally see sense in a negotiated sol

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T.M. Soundararajan

Voice of Tamil

Whether it was melodies, lyrics loaded with political statements or philosophy, folksy tunes, or a raga-based song, T.M. Soundararajan’s (1923-2013) s

FL28SAUDI-MIGRANTS

Work woes

The Saudi Kingdom’s young population remains increasingly jobless and in poverty while xenophobia, in the form of the nitaqat scheme, haunts the poorl

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New Chinese Worldview

Intellectual ferment in China

On the development of a new Chinese worldview and seeing China as a powerhouse of ideas that could influence the world.

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Excellent study

Tracing the course of the political evolution of Pakistan up to the fall of General Pervez Musharraf.

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An open contest

On the eve of the country’s 11th presidential elections, the leading candidates battle it out on the campaign trail and hope for a high turnout to mak

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The war in Bastar

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Drawing the locals in

The entire village is involved in one or other aspect of the excavation, which began in 2009.

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The end of Karma

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Genocide trial reset

Former dictator Jose Efrain Rios Montt’s conviction for genocide is annulled by the High Court. The country’s constitutional court then upholds the a

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Dubious status of BCCI

FL28ARUNA

National Advisory Council

Behind Aruna Roy’s exit

FL28TURKEYPROTES

Turkey seething

Trouble for Erdogan

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Indian cricket in deep crisis

The Indian Premier League has come to symbolise the corruption that has overwhelmed Indian cricket, and those who stand exposed include cricket admini

KOREAECONOMY

The Credit Bubble

Korea’s debt mountain

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In search of a solution

The games they play

It is time to clean up Indian cricket. If the BCCI is unwilling to act, it is for other stakeholders to do so. Unfortunately, they are guided by self-

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Catalyst for women’s struggle

Vina Mazumdar (1927-2013) was one of the champions of women’s rights and women’s movements in independent India.

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Thermal Dynamics

Thermal invisibility cloak

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Rise of Modi

The journalist Kingshuk Nag presents a well-documented summary of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.

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Rights, equality and justice

Legally sanctioned socio-economic rights remain elusive for a large number of people in India. Why?

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A step ahead

India has successfully developed its first-ever truly indigenous vaccine, Rotavac, against the organism rotavirus that is responsible for many cases o

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