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On the Supreme Court judgment recriminalising adult consensual sex and its implications and impact.

In this issue

10-01-201443 STORIES

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Economic Perspectives

Ruling dilemma

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Requiem for film

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Product phaseout

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A campaign at stake

The transgender community is apprehensive about the future of its movement for legal recognition and equal rights.

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Unequal citizens

The Supreme Court’s judgment setting aside the Delhi High Court verdict on Section 377 of the IPC discriminates against consenting adults on the groun

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Drama at sea

In a sense the book is a metaphor: to survive is the only meaningful action possible when man confronts the ferocity of nature.

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Snooping in Modi land

The Narendra Modi government will have egg on its face if the Government of India were to set up a commission of inquiry with terms of reference that

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Notion of justice

The Supreme Court, while otherwise more than activist on several issues, has attempted a textual, conservative approach in reaching its decision in th

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Law against superstition

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State and land

On the new Land Acquisition Act which seeks to favour landowners at the cost of society at large.

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U.S.-Afghanistan

Talking tough

The Afghan President wants a commitment that attacks on homes will stop before he ratifies the agreement that will allow U.S. troops to stay on in his

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Moving cars & rainfall

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Darjeeling Hills

Subash Ghising welcome to return

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Measuring slow blood flow

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On uneven terrain

Compassionate and vivid portrayal of frustrated aspirations, failed relationships and blundering characters.

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Settlement of history

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Back to the closet

The Supreme Court’s judgment has grave implications for public health and HIV/AIDS advocacy programmes and to the ongoing process of sensitisation.

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Snap poll

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Spent fuel repository

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Topological insulators

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DMK snaps ties with Congress

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Promise of peace

Hopes for an end to the conflict in Syria are high as the Geneva peace talks are announced and the U.S. decides to abort war plans after investigation

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For a liberal theological reading of the Bible

Interview with Reverend Winnie Varghese, rector of St Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery in New York City.

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Bitter divide

Letters to the Editor

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Understanding the ‘mango people’

Promising move

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‘A role for India in our future’

Interview with Jorge Glas Espinel, Vice-President of Ecuador.

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United in opposition

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Mumbai next?

The Aam Aadmi Party in Mumbai is on a euphoric high with membership growing fast.

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Dungan the director

A documentary on the American film-maker Ellis R. Dungan, who made memorable films such as “Meera” and “Manthirikumari”and raised Tamil films from the

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In a haven of verdure

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Letter from Beirut

Contract slavery

With its economy dependent on remittance payments from the Gulf region, Ethiopia has remained mute to the vicious mistreatment of its citizens in Saud

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The AAP experiment

Working model

The Aam Aadmi Party has successfully taken up specific issues relating to the people and reached out to them for directions and solutions. Will the m

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Tiger and some home truths

As the four-yearly tiger estimation begins, a look at some of the measures that need to be taken to conserve tigers in the face of developmental press

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Rights & wrongs

The Supreme Court’s judgment re-criminalising adult consensual sexual relations in private brings into focus the provision in Section 377 of the IPC

Notification

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‘Life is a chessboard’

Interview with Grandmaster Maurice Ashley.

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Comrade-in-arms

Mandela and post-apartheid South Africa have been consistent supporters of people still trying to liberate themselves, like the Palestinians and the S

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Wave that was not

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Of liberation & betrayal

Nelson Mandela’s moral grandeur as a revolutionary and a prisoner stemmed from his universalist vision of equality. It is all the more tragic then tha

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Changing values of Hindi cinema

From films highlighting moral values to those portraying “illegality as enterprise”, ethical motifs in popular Hindi cinema have undergone a tremendou

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Spot scam

The National Spot Exchange scam exposes the problems of deregulation. The motives of the government in facilitating such a regime need to be probed.

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