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21-03-201431 STORIES

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AIADMK: Lone ranger

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Breathless in Beijing

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Through my window

Dilemmas of Indian literary criticism

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Towards change

The book will appeal to scholars working in the area of Islamic studies and to social scientists interested in Islam and South Asia.

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Return of the state

The traditional hands-off approach to the free market economy in Europe is giving way to state activism on a scale that would have been unimaginable a

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Letter from Beirut

The Arab Gramsci

The killing of Hassan Hamdan, better known as Mahdi Amel, a highly regarded Marxist theoretician who strove to produce Marxist concepts that would be

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Interview: Gurudas Dasgupta

‘Only court-directed inquiry can be impartial’

Interview with Gurudas Dasgupta, CPI leader.

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Birth of a State

At the end of the decades-long struggle for Telangana, the Bill to create the 29th State of India awaits the President’s assent.

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No-risk capitalism

Reliance has used laws and its influence on politicians to further its business interests.

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The gas price fix

The FIR filed by the Anti-Corruption Branch of the Delhi government against Union Ministers Murli Deora and M. Veerappa Moily, former Director General

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Interview: Prashant Bhushan

‘Enough evidence of undue favours’

Interview with Prashant Bhushan, AAP leader.

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Behind the scenes

The Reliance group’s ventures into the media could result in a total convergence model in which all the information services to one’s home, including

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Temple elephants

The pain of being a temple elephant

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Visual poet

Balu Mahendra (1939-2014), the award-winning cinematographer and director, made lyrical films on human relationships and created fine artists.

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Land conquests

With a compliant government in Gujarat, Reliance faced little hurdle in acquiring agricultural land for its Jamnagar SEZ, but its plan for a massive S

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Reliance factor

Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal’s campaign against crony capitalism with focus on the Reliance group and its close relationship with the two ma

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Another coup bid?

The protests in the major cities of Venezuela remind one of the attempts to bring down left-wing governments in eastern Europe in the last decade.

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Cold War II

The threat of civil war and disintegration looms large over Ukraine, caught between the European Union and Russia.

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The ‘unknown’ factor

Internationally acclaimed film director and eminent Bengali poet Buddhadeb Dasgupta in an exclusive conversation with Frontline, talks of his film Anw

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A life of music

A captivating and perceptive account of the life and music of Gangubai Hangal.

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March of protest

An enterprise of collaborative writing on some of the most seminal issues of the global use of rebellion against capitalism and its allied institution

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Coming to terms with the past

A recent report of the British Cabinet Secretary is at pains to establish that the Indian government’s handling of Operation Blue Star went against th

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Capital markets

Lock, stock, and Reliance

Controversies involving the Reliance group in the stock market have been many.

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New dawn in the Pacific

Fiji is ready for its first democratic elections under a new Constitution and a new electoral system and with a common nomenclature for all its citize

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Crony capitalism and state capture

If business groups in post-Independence years drew their strength from their ability to circumvent state policy and the state’s failure to discipline

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Life after death

The Supreme Court commutes the sentences of the three death-row convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case to life imprisonment. It now has to d

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Reliance Response

Witch-hunt, says Reliance

Reliance rebuts allegations made against it by the AAP and others.

Editor’s Note

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Missing targets

Many of the targets of U.N. Millennium Development Goals may remain unachieved by India, if one goes by the latest progress report.

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Story of Reliance

Empire builder

To build his Rs.75,000-crore corporate empire, Dhirubhai Ambani curried favours with the powers that be and at the same time kept his investors happy.

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