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Corporatisation of agriculture
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26-07-2013
45 STORIES
Natural Disaster
Why Kedarnath happened
A scientific analysis of the reasons for the disaster that struck Uttarakhand, particularly the temple town.
Interview: Prof. Sukhpal Singh
‘It excludes farmers’
Interview with Professor Sukhpal Singh, Centre for Management of Agriculture, IIM Ahmedabad.
Legal Issues
Historic verdicts
Two recent judgments of the U.S. Supreme Court relating to same-sex marriages hold important lessons for India.
Corporate control
Exploitative models
The three models tried in Andhra Pradesh to bring small farms into the corporate fold, ignoring the success of the cooperative model, have had bitter
Cover Story
Calling in the corporates
The government’s aggressive moves to open up the farm sector to corporate control under the PPP model are fraught with danger. They can lead to the w
Sino-Indian rivalry
Strategic triangle
On the United States and the strategic rivalry between India and China in the Indo-Pacific region.
West Bengal
Panchayat polls: Supreme Court steps in
Art
An artist’s journey
Legal Issues
‘Equality is the issue’
Interview with Anand Grover, senior advocate.
Unmediated
Envisioning a fully paid digital future
Legal Issues
Friend of the court
The courts are obliged to do justice in individual cases and must deal with the inability of the accused to engage a lawyer when no lawyer is willing
Tamil Nadu
Tragic end
Food retailing
Towards corporatocracy
The inherent danger of corporatisation of the farm sector is price volatility and the alignment of domestic food prices with international food and oi
Alterbodies exhibition
Body and beyond
Sajitha Shankar’s “Alterbodies” transcends the sensual and the sexual to have near-metaphysical encounters with the self.
Essay
Nehru & VOA
The murky episode of the botched Voice of America agreement reveals not only the nature of decision-making in a feudal set-up in a democratic governme
An unequal system
Locked into business
Contracted farming essentially produces an unequal system where the risks are left with farmers while control over production and marketing is acquire
Travel
Rigs in a rainforest
Rani Bagh, Mumbai
Queen of gardens
The book tells the story of a 150-year-old garden in land-starved Mumbai through a smorgasbord of essays and attractive photographs.
Profile
Self-made man
Justice P. Sathasivam, the 40th Chief Justice of India, is seen as an interactive and responsive judge.
Controversy
Pride & prejudice
A Dalit writer’s book about his caste group in Tamil Nadu evokes as much sharp criticism as the State government’s ban on it.
Syria
Upping the ante
The U.S. enters the Syrian quagmire by openly offering military support to rebel forces and keeping up the pressure on the Bashar al Assad government
The United States
Snowden saga
As the United States revokes Edward Snowden’s passport and bullies other countries into refusing him asylum, to ordinary citizens around the world he
Falling Rupee
Weak and vulnerable
Readers' respond
Letters
Interview: Ramakumar, TISS
Policies aid corporate farming
India
Inviting disaster
Egypt
Chaos in Cairo
A year after Mohamed Morsy was elected President, protests seeking a premature end to his tenure rock Egypt. It is about rewriting the rules of the re
Wi-Fi
Seeing through walls
Forensics
Fluorescent fingerprint
History
Labour history of Madras
Veeraraghavan paints a detailed portrait of the life of workers in colonial Madras in the inter-War years and places labour history in the broader con
Afghanistan
Talking to the Taliban
The Taliban masquerades as a government in waiting even as the U.S. is more than willing to enter into a negotiated settlement with the very force it
ISRO
Night flight for navigation
Karnataka
Tillers’ tale
From the States
Growing concern
Gujarat
Crisp business
Public Health
Marketing nutrition
The Lancet series on maternal and child nutrition sees a role for the private sector and complementary food in nutrition-specific interventions, but
Andhra Pradesh
Seeds of wrath
Punjab
Green turns red
Maharashtra
A mixed bag
Unregulated contract farming
Recipe for crisis
Unregulated contract farming, combined with the state actors’ tendency to renege on their responsibilities, can aggravate the agrarian crisis.
Uttarakhand
State of paralysis
Compounding the fury of nature in Uttarakhand was the total inability of the state machinery to comprehend or deal with the disaster. The State, locat
Uttar Pradesh
Carrot capital
Genetics
Making genetic sense of horses
Interview: Tanya Kerssen
‘They don’t farm anymore’
Interview with Tanya Kerssen, research coordinator of Food First, Oakland, California.
Global Peace Index
Troubled world
The world has become less peaceful than in 2008, says the 2013 Global Peace Index.
Archive
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Is ‘One Nation, One Election’ really feasible?
Tight race in Maldives between India-leaning Solih and Muizzu, who is supported by China-backed PPM
What’s killing our students?
How the Global South has seized the spotlight at G20 summit in New Delhi
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22-09-2023
‘The Dystopian Times’ by Appupen
‘A dumb buffalo speaks’: A Telugu story in translation
‘I escape back to control and home’: Review of ‘Borderlines’ by Manohar Shetty
Shadow pictures: Review of ‘The Secret of More’ by Tejaswini Apte-Rahm
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08-09-2023
Meira Paibis: How Manipur’s peace-keepers became agents provocateur
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No getting past the present: Review of ‘History’s Angel’ by Anjum Hasan
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25-08-2023
‘Mrinal Sen’s stark images transformed me’: Shoojit Sircar
Rajasthan’s gig law a step in the right direction, but more needed to protect platform workers
‘The Dystopian Times’ by Appupen
‘In the Shadow’: An Odia story in translation
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