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In this issue
29-11-2013
39 STORIES
C.P. Chandrasekhar
Rhetoric of inclusiveness
Jayati Ghosh
Goliath’s nasty ways
Social Service
Spreading warmth
A cancer survivor in Mumbai who makes quilts and medicinal oils for poor patients.
Art
Icon of Tamil modernity
K.M. Adimoolam is the proud inheritor of a tradition that kept its eye on the elusive but ever-present idea called the Tamil heritage.
Nobel Prize: Chemistry
Computational chemists
Three American scientists share the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing a multi-scale modelling approach that can simulate all kinds of chemical p
Tamil Nadu
Paramakudi firing: Clean chit to police
Europe
Looking for the right mask
Across Europe, the Right is going through what commentators see as a process of “sanitisation’’ whereby it is trying to shed its “nasty party” image a
Books
Heart of darkness
A remarkable work on history and world politics not just re-examining the past but shedding light on contemporary realities of terrorism, racism, prop
Lead Story
Wahhabi impact
The growing influence of Wahhabism, a radical stream of Islam, on Indian Muslims and on the political scene, especially south Indian politics, can cau
Letters
Letters to the Editor
Through my window
Translating India
Maharashtra
The outsiders
Lead Story
Divisive agenda
Essay
Spies and bribes
It requires an honest intellectual effort to grasp three stern realities. India will never agree to plebiscite or secession. Pakistan will never accep
World Affairs
For automatic, not selective, information exchange
Interview with Rudolf Elmer, banker-turned-whistle-blower.
Lead Story
Flawed still
While the NAC’s revised draft Bill on prevention of communal and targeted violence has tried to address the issues raised by critics, it still has som
Economic Offences
Token measure
Switzerland signs a multilateral convention on administrative assistance in tax matters, but will it help procure information on illicit fund flows fr
Germany
With friends like these…
Edward Snowden’s latest revelations that German Chancellor Angela Merkel was at the receiving end of NSA surveillance force E.U. governments to face
Books
Revisiting 1857
The articles enrich the understanding of the diverse aspects of the great uprising .
Bihar
Brand and evict
Haryana
Sacred cow
Books
Islamic praxis
The scholar has added a new element of analysis to the already available works on the Gujarat pogrom by focussing on Muslim peace activists.
Saudi Arabia
Tension in ties
Saudi Arabia, piqued by its failure to get the U.S. to effect a regime change in Syria, refuses to take its hard-won seat in the Security Council, acc
Letter from Beirut
Khoury’s talismans
Space
Next stop Mars
The PSLV-C25 launch vehicle puts the Mars orbiter into an earth orbit in a mission that has gone according to the script down to the last detail.
Judiciary
Course correction
The Supreme Court awards a non-resident Indian an enhanced compensation for medical negligence by a Kolkata hospital. In another significant ruling, i
Assembly Elections - Delhi
A third contender
In just over one year of its formation, the AAP has projected itself as a formidable player in Delhi’s politics. With constant comparisons between Ch
Lead Story
Sensational grist
The Sangh Parivar has successfully dovetailed its concept of “love jehad” with the feudal-patriarchal prejudices of “honour” in north India.
Lead Story
Divisive project
The BJP is advancing the politics of communal polarisation aggressively in various regions of the country through its many Hindutva factories, creatin
Criminal Justice
Caste and carnage
The series of five cases of mass murder from Bihar must wake India up to the need to strengthen its capacity to deal with the criminal justice afterma
Assembly Elections - Rajasthan
No clear favourite
The inability of the Ashok Gehlot-led Congress government in Rajasthan to address the issues of spiralling prices and agricultural decline and the BJP
United Nations
New relevance of the world body
With the failure of market ideologies to provide solutions to the pressing problems of our times, the world needs a new mode of governance based on co
Assembly elections - Madhya Pradesh
Closing the gap
Despite the early perceptions of an easy third term for Shivraj Singh Chauhan in Madhya Pradesh, the reality is that it is becoming a close contest be
Kerala
SNC-Lavalin case: End of a witch-hunt?
Nobel Prize: Physiology, Medicine
Cell transport system
Three American scientists, who elucidated the mechanisms involved in the transport of proteins and other essential biomolecules within the cell and th
Assembly elections - Chhattisgarh
Food and vote
Congress leaders in Chhattisgarh harp on the killing of 30 of their colleagues by naxalites in May to garner sympathy for their candidates, but the BJ
Lead Story
Cyber assault
The Hindutva brigade’s Internet campaign has taken propaganda to new heights of incredulity.
Data card
How the other half lives
Mediocre access to health, education and job opportunities but significant political empowerment marks the pattern of women's lives in the subcontinen
Books
Life rests on water
On the right to safe and clean drinking water and sanitation as a human right, essential for the full enjoyment of life.
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Tight race in Maldives between India-leaning Solih and Muizzu, who is supported by China-backed PPM
What’s killing our students?
How the Global South has seized the spotlight at G20 summit in New Delhi
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‘Mrinal Sen’s stark images transformed me’: Shoojit Sircar
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