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Election 1
In this issue
02-05-2014
50 STORIES
C.P. Chandrasekhar
Modi & constraints of democracy
Readers write
Letters to the Editor
BJP manifesto
Woolly promises
Lead Story
Editor’s Note
Spotlight
Claying around in Andretta
Science
Why civilisations collapse
A study identifies over-exploitation of natural resources and economic disparity as two factors causing the collapse of civilisations and says the mod
Books
Nehru’s approach
Two volumes of Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru, about the early 1959 period when relations with China were strained and corruption and communalism
Science & Technology
Why South Pole?
Books
Bengal Pact
West Bengal
Another opportunity
Interview: Prakash Karat, CPI(M)
‘We will do better this time’
Interview with Prakash Karat, general secretary, Communist Party of India (Marxist).
Pakistan
General in his labyrinth
The indictment of Pervez Musharraf for high treason asserts the civilian government’s supremacy over the military.
Politics
Muslim factor
Regional Parties
Voice of the regions
The emergence of regional parties is an outcome of the capitalist development path that benefited a few States to the detriment of some other parts of
Foreign policy and human rights
Friends, foes & human rights
As the change in attitude towards India’s Modi, Indonesia’s Probawo and others shows, the U.S. and the E.U. are quite happy to deal with Asian and Af
Astronomy
Inflationary origin
The first detection of primordial gravitational waves could provide observational evidence of how the universe evolved.
Bahujan Samaj Party
Missed opportunities
Bihar
Janata Dal (United): Reinventing itself
Uttar Pradesh
Samajwadi Party: Polarisation & prospects
Trinamool Congress
Changing dynamics
Jharkhand Mukti Morcha
Soren and sons
Rashtriya Janata Dal
Lalu back in business
Maharashtra
Nationalist Congress Party: Pawar’s power
Shiromani Akali Dal
Mainstreaming itself
YSR Congress
Son’s challenge
Shiv Sena, MNS
Trouble and strife
DMDK, PMK, MDMK, P.T., VCK
Strange bedfellows
Janata Dal (Secular)
Battle of a patriarch
DMK
Son-rise party
Telangana Rashtra Samithi
Telangana dividend
Biju Janata Dal
For future bargains
Left parties
Power and principles
National Conference, PDP
Turf war
Books
Individual vs public
The book opens up many vistas for those who have been associated with political and social movements.
Letter from Beirut
Students on warpath
With the weight of education debt pressing down on them, students across the world have begun to register their dismay at the way education has increa
Books
Partition truths
The partition of India was a consequence of calculations gone wrong, on the part of both the Congress and the Muslim League.
Books
Caste & Muslims
An interesting perspective on social stratification among Muslims in India.
Politics
Fight in the delta
Tripura
Left bastion
Kerala
Changing landscape
Lead Story
Vital pieces of a jigsaw
Regional and identity-based parties will continue to retain fragmented spaces of political influence in the national polity after the 2014 elections.
Interview: Atishi Marlena, the AAP.
‘Driven by political reality’
Interview with Atishi Marlena, official spokesperson of the Aam Aadmi Party.
Andhra Pradesh
TDP: Telugu Modi
Books
Archiving damage
The book documents the major features of the BJP’s misrule in Karnataka and its use of government machinery to promote its ideological goals.
Rashtriya Lok Dal
Losing his fiefdom
Asom Gana Parishad
Rise and fall
INLD & Haryana Janjit Congress
Politics of caste
Data Card
Cancer in India
Ukraine
A new Cold War?
What is at stake is not a competition between irreconcilable social systems, as in the Cold War of yesteryear, but a reconfiguration of capitalist pow
Labour Issues
Locked out at Toyota
The prolonged lockout at global auto major Toyota’s Indian facility over a wage dispute with its workers highlights the fragility of its famed product
Archive
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06-10-2023
A cry for help that goes unnoticed
Is ‘One Nation, One Election’ really feasible?
Namakkal: A Kota in the making?
Editor’s Note: Boycotting hate speech anchors not an attack on press freedom
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22-09-2023
‘The Dystopian Times’ by Appupen
‘A dumb buffalo speaks’: A Telugu story in translation
‘I escape back to control and home’: Review of ‘Borderlines’ by Manohar Shetty
Shadow pictures: Review of ‘The Secret of More’ by Tejaswini Apte-Rahm
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08-09-2023
Meira Paibis: How Manipur’s peace-keepers became agents provocateur
‘The Dystopian Times’ by Appupen
Labyrinth of mirrors: Review of ‘The House of Doors’ by Tan Twan Eng
No getting past the present: Review of ‘History’s Angel’ by Anjum Hasan
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25-08-2023
‘Mrinal Sen’s stark images transformed me’: Shoojit Sircar
Rajasthan’s gig law a step in the right direction, but more needed to protect platform workers
‘The Dystopian Times’ by Appupen
‘In the Shadow’: An Odia story in translation
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