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COVER STORY
29-11-2013
Communalism
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Briefing
Nobel Prize: Chemistry
Computational chemists
Science & Technology
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
India
Europe
Looking for the right mask
World Affairs
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
Heart of darkness
Books
A remarkable work on history and world politics not just re-examining the past but shedding light on contemporary realities of terrorism, racism, prop
Wahhabi impact
Lead Story
The growing influence of Wahhabism, a radical stream of Islam, on Indian Muslims and on the political scene, especially south Indian politics, can cau
Data card
How the other half lives
Data Stories
Mediocre access to health, education and job opportunities but significant political empowerment marks the pattern of women's lives in the subcontinen
Cyber assault
Lead Story
The Hindutva brigade’s Internet campaign has taken propaganda to new heights of incredulity.
Bihar
Brand and evict
Lead Story
Haryana
Sacred cow
Lead Story
Maharashtra
The outsiders
Lead Story
Divisive agenda
Lead Story
Essay
Spies and bribes
India
It requires an honest intellectual effort to grasp three stern realities. India will never agree to plebiscite or secession. Pakistan will never accep
Criminal Justice
Caste and carnage
India
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
For automatic, not selective, information exchange
World Affairs
Interview with Rudolf Elmer, banker-turned-whistle-blower.
Flawed still
Lead Story
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
World Affairs
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…
World Affairs
Edward Snowden’s latest revelations that German Chancellor Angela Merkel was at the receiving end of NSA surveillance force E.U. governments to face
Revisiting 1857
Books
The articles enrich the understanding of the diverse aspects of the great uprising .
Islamic praxis
Books
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
World Affairs
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
World Affairs
Space
Next stop Mars
Science & Technology
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.
Assembly Elections - Rajasthan
No clear favourite
Politics
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
World Affairs
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
Judiciary
Course correction
India
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
Politics
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
Assembly elections - Madhya Pradesh
Closing the gap
Politics
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?
India
Sensational grist
Lead Story
The Sangh Parivar has successfully dovetailed its concept of “love jehad” with the feudal-patriarchal prejudices of “honour” in north India.
Nobel Prize: Physiology, Medicine
Cell transport system
Science & Technology
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
Politics
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
Divisive project
Lead Story
The BJP is advancing the politics of communal polarisation aggressively in various regions of the country through its many Hindutva factories, creatin
Through my window
Translating India
K.Satchidanandan
Letters
Letters to the Editor
Letters
Life rests on water
Books
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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