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The New World Disorder
In this issue
09-08-2013
43 STORIES
Politics
Dangerous brew
The sociopolitical concoction the BJP has brewed with fundamentalist extremism and corporate control of the political process will have a crippling e
Reserve Bank Survey
Foreign hand
Cantonment and City
The ‘other’ Bangalore
Paul Fernandes’ cartoons capture the delightful transitional era of post-Independence Bangalore Cantonment, revelling in the afterglow of the British
Tennis
Crazy Wimbledon
Andy Murray gives Britain its long-awaited victory in the men’s final, while Marion Bartoli of France wins her first Grand Slam.
Public Health
Private care?
The National Advisory Council recommendations seem to be making a strong case for a major role for the private sector in the delivery of health care.
Governance
Ordinance route
The ordinance-making power of the executive needs to be suitably restrained to create a balance of power between the executive and the legislature in
Letters
Letters
Nuclear Power
Ready to run
With the first unit of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project reaching criticality on July 13, a project that was envisaged some 25 years ago draws clos
Bangladesh
Warning vote
The ruling Awami League would do well to analyse the drubbing it received in the recent corporation elections and take corrective steps if it wants to
Astronomy
Neptune’s new moon
THE TELEGRAPH
End of a tradition
NAL
Crash sled
Books
A tale of two economies
A collection of essays that provides a comparative analysis of how the economies of India and China coped with serious challenges following liberalisa
Biotechnology Bill
Missing the purpose
Critics of the Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India Bill say that instead of providing a framework for regulation it seems geared to promoting
India
‘The judgment will create awareness’
Interview with advocate Lily Thomas, the petitioner in the Supreme Court case on Representation of People’s Act.
Medicine
Cranial radiation therapy
Plastics
Shape-memory plastics
Letter from America
Futility at Guantanamo
The shadowy status of the U.S.’ penal colony at Guantanamo Bay has the prisoners stuck in purgatory: unable to be tried for unknown crimes and unable
The Judiciary
Judicial overreach?
Three recent judgments by the Supreme Court and one interim order by the Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court have a direct impact on the functio
Books
Calcutta of yore
Hootum Pyachar Naksha presents a realistic picture of 19th century Calcutta and weaves in thinly disguised references to real-life personalities of th
Jammu & Kashmir
‘A living hell’
This is how a resident describes life in the twin villages of Kunan and Poshpora where the alleged rape of some 50 women by Indian Army soldiers 22 y
Politics
Memorial to Shivaji
Methane project
Stop, says CM
Safety concerns
Nothing left to chance
Nuclear reactors at Kudankulam will not harm marine life or displace any more people, say experts. The plant is also designed to withstand disasters,
Interview: S.P. Udayakumar
‘There is no openness’
Interview with S.P. Udayakumar, coordinator of the People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy.
Data Card
Corruption Barometer
More than half the respondents in a global survey think corruption has grown in the past two years.
U.S. & snooping
Cat and mouse
Latin American countries offer refuge to the American whistle-blower Edward Snowden even as the U.S. attempts to catch him by hook or by crook.
Sikkim
Monsoon memories
Books
Turning point in ties with China
This volume, like its predecessors, contains instructive material on a host of matters. No student of history can afford to neglect it.
India
Nuclear vocabulary
Governance
Half-baked scheme
The UPA government pushes ahead with the Food Security Ordinance, which is of questionable merit, despite opposition from political parties and social
Space
In mission mode
ISRO has 12 missions lined up over the next eight months. K. Radhakrishnan, its Chairman, speaks on two major ones coming up: the GSLV launch with an
Livelihood
Okay to dance
Land row
Hope in Singur
Egypt
Islamist riposte
After the military coup, the Muslim Brotherhood goes on the offensive and the political divide in Egypt deepens further.
U.N. report
Sanitation concerns
Infrastructure
Partners for plunder
In another case of handing over national assets to private operators, the Central government invites joint-venture partners under the PPP model to man
Fishermen's fears
Shadow of fear
The agitating fishing community near the Kudankulam nuclear plant fears that the hot condenser water released into the sea will kill fish and other ma
Disinvestment
A twist in the sale
The Centre’s decision to sell 5 per cent of its stake in the NLC faces stiff opposition, but the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister steps in and saves the day
In conversation with Tariq Ali
The New World Disorder
Tariq Ali, in this exclusive interview, seamlessly switches from contemporary historian to scholar-at-large to polemicist to raconteur, as he tackles
Jayati Ghosh
On a lost woman
Column
Geographies of imagination
Turkey
On shaky ground
The tremors of the Arab Spring have had a negative effect on Turkey’s economy and the country’s relations with its neighbours.
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