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29-11-201339 STORIES

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C.P. Chandrasekhar

Rhetoric of inclusiveness

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Goliath’s nasty ways

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Spreading warmth

A cancer survivor in Mumbai who makes quilts and medicinal oils for poor patients.

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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.

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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

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Paramakudi firing: Clean chit to police

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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

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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

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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 to the Editor

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Through my window

Translating India

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The outsiders

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Divisive agenda

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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

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For automatic, not selective, information exchange

Interview with Rudolf Elmer, banker-turned-whistle-blower.

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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

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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

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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

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Revisiting 1857

The articles enrich the understanding of the diverse aspects of the great uprising .

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Brand and evict

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Sacred cow

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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.

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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

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Letter from Beirut

Khoury’s talismans

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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.

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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

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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

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Sensational grist

The Sangh Parivar has successfully dovetailed its concept of “love jehad” with the feudal-patriarchal prejudices of “honour” in north India.

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Divisive project

The BJP is advancing the politics of communal polarisation aggressively in various regions of the country through its many Hindutva factories, creatin

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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

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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

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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

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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

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SNC-Lavalin case: End of a witch-hunt?

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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

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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

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Cyber assault

The Hindutva brigade’s Internet campaign has taken propaganda to new heights of incredulity.

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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

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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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