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Corporatisation of agriculture

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Natural Disaster

Why Kedarnath happened

A scientific analysis of the reasons for the disaster that struck Uttarakhand, particularly the temple town.

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Interview: Prof. Sukhpal Singh

‘It excludes farmers’

Interview with Professor Sukhpal Singh, Centre for Management of Agriculture, IIM Ahmedabad.

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Historic verdicts

Two recent judgments of the U.S. Supreme Court relating to same-sex marriages hold important lessons for India.

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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

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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

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Sino-Indian rivalry

Strategic triangle

On the United States and the strategic rivalry between India and China in the Indo-Pacific region.

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Panchayat polls: Supreme Court steps in

An artist’s journey

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‘Equality is the issue’

Interview with Anand Grover, senior advocate.

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Envisioning a fully paid digital future

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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

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Tragic end

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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

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Alterbodies exhibition

Body and beyond

Sajitha Shankar’s “Alterbodies” transcends the sensual and the sexual to have near-metaphysical encounters with the self.

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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

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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

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Rigs in a rainforest

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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.

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Self-made man

Justice P. Sathasivam, the 40th Chief Justice of India, is seen as an interactive and responsive judge.

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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.

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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

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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

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Weak and vulnerable

Readers' respond

Letters

Interview: Ramakumar, TISS

Policies aid corporate farming

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Inviting disaster

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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

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Seeing through walls

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Fluorescent fingerprint

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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

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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

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Night flight for navigation

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Tillers’ tale

From the States

Growing concern

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Crisp business

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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

Seeds of wrath

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Green turns red

A mixed bag

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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.

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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

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Carrot capital

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Making genetic sense of horses

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Interview: Tanya Kerssen

‘They don’t farm anymore’

Interview with Tanya Kerssen, research coordinator of Food First, Oakland, California.

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Global Peace Index

Troubled world

The world has become less peaceful than in 2008, says the 2013 Global Peace Index.

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