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Future of the economy

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Through my window

Shared traumas

Letters to the Editor

The ‘Polled Over’ effect

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The magic of Gabo: Why Gabriel Garcia Marquez matters

Awareness of history remains one of the best gifts of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s fiction, which weaves the idioms of myth and magic to show how Latin Am

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Another ‘Gujarat model’

A study on untouchability practices in 1,589 villages in Gujarat provides critical data for the Dalit movement to shape its interventions at the nati

Onus on the state

A Delhi High Court verdict says the State government is bound to ensure that poor and vulnerable sections of society have access to treatment for rare

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Political economy of elections

The Congress' campaign is characterised by a lack of clarity on what should be projected as its achievement--the relatively inclusive growth of UPA I

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Terror in the north

The Boko Haram spreads terror in the northern swathes of Nigeria, primarily to exacerbate the divide between the predominantly Muslim north and the m

FL16ATHREYA

Opinion polls and pitfalls

Interview with Venkatesh Athreya, economist.

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Advantage BJP

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General Elections

Campaign classics

General elections in India—the campaigning, the victories and defeats and the cold calculations.

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Letter from Beirut

Polling in the time of bombs

Nothing will stop the Iraqi elections from going ahead on April 30, in which Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s State of Law coalition seems assured of

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Tamil Nadu: BJP

Worming its way

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Self-goals galore

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Enduring Erdogan

By leading his party to victory in the general election, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan proves that he is still a force to reckon with.

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Dangers to democracy

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Even contest

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Skirting real issues

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Distrust and disarray

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Identity politics, again

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On shaky ground

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Voting for change

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Feeling let down

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Tamil Nadu: Congress

Alone and aimless

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Myth and reality

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Changing scene

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Divided Parivar

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The AAP effect

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Saffron portents

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Dissent and disillusion

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Bharatiya Janata Party

Manufacturing an image

The theme of Hindutva runs parallel to the projection of the “Gujarat model” in the BJP’s campaign. Narendra Modi’s nomination from Varanasi, with its

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End of ideology

If the Congress is floundering, it is because it lacks today the ideology, social vision and agenda an inherently pluralistic and unequal society like

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Gender justice

The Supreme Court judgment recognising the third gender, while restricting itself to the concerns of transgender persons, links development with huma

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War of ideas

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Late swing?

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Himachal Pradesh

Development debate

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One-seat dream

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Targeting ‘outsiders’

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Stemming the communal tide

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Manual Scavenging

Raising a stink

The Supreme Court’s intervention has brought significant results in the Safai Karamchari Andolan case, but its final judgment belies expectations of

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A tale of two States

The book argues that Andhra Pradesh was created only to serve the interests of Andhraites and asserts that the bifurcation of the State corrects a his

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Arming India

India is the world’s ninth largest military spender and number one arms importer, according to data released by the Stockholm International Peace Rese

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‘Wave’ & reality

Will the “Modi wave” the BJP has worked up in the media help the party ride over the barriers of caste and identity politics? Even senior leaders of t

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