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On the Supreme Court judgment recriminalising adult consensual sex and its implications and impact.
In this issue
10-01-2014
43 STORIES
Economic Perspectives
Ruling dilemma
Sashi Kumar
Requiem for film
LIC of India
Product phaseout
Cover Story
A campaign at stake
The transgender community is apprehensive about the future of its movement for legal recognition and equal rights.
Cover Story
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
Books
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.
Essay
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
Cover Story
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
Maharashtra
Law against superstition
Books
State and land
On the new Land Acquisition Act which seeks to favour landowners at the cost of society at large.
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
Rainfall
Moving cars & rainfall
Darjeeling Hills
Subash Ghising welcome to return
Medicine
Measuring slow blood flow
Books
On uneven terrain
Compassionate and vivid portrayal of frustrated aspirations, failed relationships and blundering characters.
Archaeology
Settlement of history
Cover Story
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.
Thailand
Snap poll
Nuclear Waste
Spent fuel repository
Technology
Topological insulators
Tamil Nadu
DMK snaps ties with Congress
Syria
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
Cover Story
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.
Andhra Pradesh
Bitter divide
Letters
Letters to the Editor
Preoccupations
Understanding the ‘mango people’
Lead Story
Promising move
Ecuador
‘A role for India in our future’
Interview with Jorge Glas Espinel, Vice-President of Ecuador.
Lead Story
United in opposition
Politics
Mumbai next?
The Aam Aadmi Party in Mumbai is on a euphoric high with membership growing fast.
Cinema
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
Travel
In a haven of verdure
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
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
Conservation
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
Cover Story
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
India
Notification
Sport
‘Life is a chessboard’
Interview with Grandmaster Maurice Ashley.
Tribute
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
Politics
Wave that was not
Nelson Mandela
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
Hindi Cinema
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
Data Card
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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Remembering Habib Tanvir, the master of modern Indian theatre
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