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COVER STORY
26-07-2013
Agriculture
Corporatisation of agriculture
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Briefing
Cover Story
Calling in the corporates
Lead Story
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
West Bengal
Panchayat polls: Supreme Court steps in
India
Sino-Indian rivalry
Strategic triangle
Books
On the United States and the strategic rivalry between India and China in the Indo-Pacific region.
An artist’s journey
Art
Legal Issues
‘Equality is the issue’
India
Interview with Anand Grover, senior advocate.
Unmediated
Envisioning a fully paid digital future
Sashi Kumar
Legal Issues
Friend of the court
India
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
Food retailing
Towards corporatocracy
Lead Story
The inherent danger of corporatisation of the farm sector is price volatility and the alignment of domestic food prices with international food and oi
Tamil Nadu
Tragic end
India
Alterbodies exhibition
Body and beyond
Art
Sajitha Shankar’s “Alterbodies” transcends the sensual and the sexual to have near-metaphysical encounters with the self.
Essay
Nehru & VOA
India
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
Travel
Rigs in a rainforest
Environment
An unequal system
Locked into business
Lead Story
Contracted farming essentially produces an unequal system where the risks are left with farmers while control over production and marketing is acquire
Rani Bagh, Mumbai
Queen of gardens
Books
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
Other
Justice P. Sathasivam, the 40th Chief Justice of India, is seen as an interactive and responsive judge.
Controversy
Pride & prejudice
Literature
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
World Affairs
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
World Affairs
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
C.P. Chandrasekhar
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Letters
Letters
History
Labour history of Madras
Books
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
World Affairs
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
India
From the States
Growing concern
Lead Story
Gujarat
Crisp business
Lead Story
Karnataka
Tillers’ tale
Lead Story
Public Health
Marketing nutrition
General Issues
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
Lead Story
Punjab
Green turns red
Lead Story
Maharashtra
A mixed bag
Lead Story
Interview: Ramakumar, TISS
Policies aid corporate farming
Lead Story
Inviting disaster
India
Unregulated contract farming
Recipe for crisis
Lead Story
Unregulated contract farming, combined with the state actors’ tendency to renege on their responsibilities, can aggravate the agrarian crisis.
Uttarakhand
State of paralysis
India
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
Egypt
Chaos in Cairo
World Affairs
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
Uttar Pradesh
Carrot capital
Lead Story
Genetics
Making genetic sense of horses
Science & Technology
Wi-Fi
Seeing through walls
Science & Technology
Interview: Tanya Kerssen
‘They don’t farm anymore’
Lead Story
Interview with Tanya Kerssen, research coordinator of Food First, Oakland, California.
Forensics
Fluorescent fingerprint
Science & Technology
Global Peace Index
Troubled world
Data Stories
The world has become less peaceful than in 2008, says the 2013 Global Peace Index.
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Feb 10, 2023
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Tiger man, burning bright
Supreme Court stay on Haldwani evictions draws attention to need to codify housing laws
P. Sainath: ‘I wrote this book for the people in it’
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Jan 13, 2023
Sri Lankan Tamil Hindus seek India’s support as Sinhala government targets temples
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Sex, lies, and chicken curry
A chat over tikki
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The Great Land Grab in Jammu and Kashmir
Great Nicobar development projects disregard risk in earthquake-prone area
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