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28-06-2013
44 STORIES
Books
A bowler’s story
Recollections of a first-class cricketer on growing up with the game and learning from India’s legendary spinners.
Tribute
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
Spotlight
Her story
After winning her right to bear her child, an intellectually disabled rape survivor proves pessimists wrong about the child’s well-being.
Letters
fl15 letters
Censorship
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
Tribute
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
Heritage
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.
Banking
The slow regress in banking
Cover Story
‘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
RTI debate
CIC vs parties
Readers write
Letters
Byelection
A Trinamool victory
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
Palaeontology
408-million-year-old fish fossil in Spain
Physics
Creating chaos to harvest light
Fukushima Study
Radiation risks low
NGO Funding
INSAF suspended
Political reactions
Parties cry foul
Lead Story
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
Extremism
The end of Karma
Guatemala
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
Saudi Arabia
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
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.
Books
Excellent study
Tracing the course of the political evolution of Pakistan up to the fall of General Pervez Musharraf.
Iran
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
Syria
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
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
Archaeology
Drawing the locals in
The entire village is involved in one or other aspect of the excavation, which began in 2009.
Legal Status
Dubious status of BCCI
National Advisory Council
Behind Aruna Roy’s exit
Turkey seething
Trouble for Erdogan
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
Governance
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
Extremism
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
Art
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.
Extremism
The war in Bastar
Data Card
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
The Credit Bubble
Korea’s debt mountain
Thermal Dynamics
Thermal invisibility cloak
Vina Mazumdar
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.
Medicine
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
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-
Legal Rights
Rights, equality and justice
Legally sanctioned socio-economic rights remain elusive for a large number of people in India. Why?
Books
Rise of Modi
The journalist Kingshuk Nag presents a well-documented summary of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.
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