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Egypt crisis
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20-09-2013
42 STORIES
Books
Destructive merger
Hyderabad’s accession to India was inevitable, but there were better alternatives to the Army action that Sardar Patel pushed through, says A.G. Noora
Economic Perspectives
On the spot scam
New Delhi
Protests in Delhi University
United States
Blood for oil
Declassified CIA papers establish that the overthrow of the Mossadegh government in Iran in 1953 was carried out under CIA direction as part of U.S. f
World Affairs
North’s challenge
Consumer expenditure data
Rural-urban divide in spending patterns
Crimes against women
Mumbai’s shame
The gang rape of a young journalist damages Mumbai’s reputation for safety. Data from the National Crime Records Bureau show a noticeable rise in crim
Letter from Beirut
Ominous signs
Beneath the apparent calm, anticipation of violence structures daily existence in Beirut as car bombs go off in the city and Israel launches retaliato
Cover Story
Revolution or restoration?
For all their spectacular and performative grandeur, the uprisings of 2011 and 2013 are not revolutionary because they have not paved the way for syst
Technology
Controlling sound waves
Space
Water on moon
Citizens' initiative
Green hope amidst ruins
The turnout at the Tree Fest organised by Green Walk at the foothills of Samanarmalai could indicate the start of a strong people’s movement for the
Controversy
Shady business
Nothing wrong with Robert Vadra's land deal, says the government, which refuses to order a judicial inquiry. But the questions remain.
Sri Lanka
Politics of dispossession
Caught between a repressive state and a bankrupt Tamil nationalist politics, the people of the Northern Province are using the provincial elections to
Space
Leak stops launch
Cover Story
Storm clouds
The United States’ West Asia policy is likely to ensure that the Arab Spring, which had engendered great hopes in the Arab street, will end in an orgy
Tamil Nadu
A sand scam
Allegations of illegal beach sand mining in southern Tamil Nadu gain considerable strength with the government transferring the Collector of Tuticorin
Public Administration
For crafting credible systems
For inclusive growth, India needs public systems that can deliver in education and health care. These can be built by restructuring our civil service
Biology
Long-term memory in the cortex
West Bengal
Twist in Gorkhaland demand
Books
Of survival and betrayal
Ciro Bustos’ memoir stands firmly located within the genre of the literature of resistance, giving voice to the voiceless and the wretched of the eart
Hindutva campaign
Back to Ayodhya
The VHP’s Ayodhya Parikrama leaves the temple town and its twin city cold, but the Sangh Parivar presses ahead in the hope of electoral benefits elsew
Letters
Response
Syria
Sarin as part of a strategy?
Syria allows U.N. arms inspectors to the sites of “sarin” attacks confident that they will unmask the falsehoods, but the West insists that Damascus
Books
Rumi’s Dilli
The Pakistani journalist Raza Rumi is both an insider and an outsider as he explores the trail of Sufism to the shrine of Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya in
Culture
Remains of Yesterday
When The Beatles wanted time out from a tumultous and highly successful 1967, they spent three months in Chaurasi Kutia, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's ashra
Preoccupations
A case for import controls
Sashi Kumar
Retooling journalists and journalism
Governance
Performance deficit
The Independence Day addresses to the nation of the President and the Prime Minister reflect the Congress’ failure as a ruling party to keep the promi
Books
Governing media
In the age of Internet media where technology makes censorship difficult, the latest editions of two books on laws governing the media make a persuasi
Karnataka
Congress gains
Books
The dream of global hegemony
Two books, written from opposite viewpoints, help one better understand the forces at play today in America’s dealings on the global stage.
Interview
‘The craft will die if khadi yarn is not used’
Interview with Ruby Palchoudhuri, honorary general secretary, Crafts Council of West Bengal.
Travel
Glimpses of Kyoto
Cover Story
Uncertain in Egypt
Kerala
Troubled waters
Twenty-five years of monsoon trawl ban has not helped nurse Kerala’s coastal fishery back to good health. A combination of regulatory measures could b
Photography
Capturing the intangibles
Photographer Sooni Taraporevala’s exhibition “Parsis”, opening at New Delhi’s National Gallery of Modern Art on September 16, is a reminder that the m
Legislation
Food for security
The Lok Sabha passes the National Food Security Bill after incorporating several amendments, but the timing of its introduction is seen as aimed at ga
Tradition
The glory of jamdani
The Crafts Council of West Bengal is making huge efforts to revive the traditional craft of making jamdani saris with hand-spun yarn.
Physics
New element
Crime
Act of unreason
The rationalist Narendra Dabholkar is killed in Pune and the Maharashtra government pays its tribute to him with an ordinance against black magic and
Books
Realism on the U.N.
The author traces the death of many an illusion about the U.N. in a study that is one of the best on the fractured organisation.
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06-10-2023
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Jayanta Mahapatra: A master litterateur who created a language uniquely his own
Remembering Habib Tanvir, the master of modern Indian theatre
At Rs.51.75 crore, ‘Gestation’ puts S.H. Raza at the highest level of Indian art
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22-09-2023
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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
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‘In the Shadow’: An Odia story in translation
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