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Election 1
In this issue
02-05-2014
50 STORIES
C.P. Chandrasekhar
Modi & constraints of democracy
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
Data Card
Cancer in India
The Aam Aadmi Party
Surprise package
Essay
Profit from crisis
Why capitalists do not want recovery, and what that means for America.
Lead Story
Editor’s Note
Spotlight
Claying around in Andretta
Books
Individual vs public
The book opens up many vistas for those who have been associated with political and social movements.
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
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
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
Books
Caste & Muslims
An interesting perspective on social stratification among Muslims in India.
Science & Technology
Why South Pole?
Books
Bengal Pact
Politics
Fight in the delta
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).
INLD & Haryana Janjit Congress
Politics of caste
National Conference, PDP
Turf war
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
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
Left parties
Power and principles
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.
Pakistan
General in his labyrinth
The indictment of Pervez Musharraf for high treason asserts the civilian government’s supremacy over the military.
Interview: Atishi Marlena, the AAP.
‘Driven by political reality’
Interview with Atishi Marlena, official spokesperson of the Aam Aadmi Party.
Politics
Muslim factor
Archive
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Rise of ‘Hindutva’ cinema
Editor’s Note: When cinema becomes a tool for propaganda
Movie trailers: The unofficial manifestos of our time
Of Magadh, Manjhi and Musahars
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Tastes of the earth
Did Periyar call for a genocide of Brahmins?
‘Enlightenment’: A Marathi story in translation
Close encounters with the third kind
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05-04-2024
Is India truly the voice of the Global South at WTO?
SBI’s reluctance to reveal electoral bond data raises concerns about its independence and reliability
Essays by Prabir Purkayastha: Defending reason with passion
How homogenisation can flatten knowledge systems
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22-03-2024
Why the tiger-human conflict rages in Bandipur and Nagarahole
Minimum Support Price: A question of how, not why
Fali S. Nariman (1929-2024): A life dedicated to the Constitution’s promise
Farmers’ protest: It’s a battle against servitude
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