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20-09-201342 STORIES

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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

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Economic Perspectives

On the spot scam

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Protests in Delhi University

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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

North’s challenge

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Consumer expenditure data

Rural-urban divide in spending patterns

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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

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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

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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

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Controlling sound waves

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Water on moon

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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

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Shady business

Nothing wrong with Robert Vadra's land deal, says the government, which refuses to order a judicial inquiry. But the questions remain.

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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

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Leak stops launch

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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

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A sand scam

Allegations of illegal beach sand mining in southern Tamil Nadu gain considerable strength with the government transferring the Collector of Tuticorin

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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

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Long-term memory in the cortex

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Twist in Gorkhaland demand

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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

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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

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Response

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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

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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

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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

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A case for import controls

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Retooling journalists and journalism

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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

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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

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Congress gains

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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.

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‘The craft will die if khadi yarn is not used’

Interview with Ruby Palchoudhuri, honorary general secretary, Crafts Council of West Bengal.

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Glimpses of Kyoto

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Uncertain in Egypt

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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

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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

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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

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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.

New element

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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

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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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