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COVER STORY
20-09-2013
Egypt
Egypt crisis
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Briefing
North’s challenge
World Affairs
Consumer expenditure data
Rural-urban divide in spending patterns
Data Stories
Crimes against women
Mumbai’s shame
Social Issues
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
World Affairs
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?
Lead Story
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
Science & Technology
Space
Water on moon
Science & Technology
Citizens' initiative
Green hope amidst ruins
India
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
India
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
World Affairs
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
India
Cover Story
Storm clouds
Lead Story
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
India
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
General Issues
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
Science & Technology
West Bengal
Twist in Gorkhaland demand
India
Of survival and betrayal
Books
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
Politics
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
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Letters
Syria
Sarin as part of a strategy?
World Affairs
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
Rumi’s Dilli
Books
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
Arts & Culture
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
Jayati Ghosh
Retooling journalists and journalism
Sashi Kumar
Governance
Performance deficit
Politics
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
Governing media
Books
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
India
The dream of global hegemony
Books
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’
Heritage
Interview with Ruby Palchoudhuri, honorary general secretary, Crafts Council of West Bengal.
Travel
Glimpses of Kyoto
Heritage
Cover Story
Uncertain in Egypt
Lead Story
Kerala
Troubled waters
India
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
Arts & Culture
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
India
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
Heritage
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
Science & Technology
Crime
Act of unreason
India
The rationalist Narendra Dabholkar is killed in Pune and the Maharashtra government pays its tribute to him with an ordinance against black magic and
Realism on the U.N.
Books
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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Feb 10, 2023
Hills of Hassan district plagued by perennial human-animal conflict
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
Aggressive Koreas leave peninsula tense
Sex, lies, and chicken curry
A chat over tikki
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Jan 27, 2023
The Great Land Grab in Jammu and Kashmir
Great Nicobar development projects disregard risk in earthquake-prone area
How the Serendipity Arts Festival celebrated the spirit of community
Pele (1940-2022): At his feet, football transformed into poetry
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