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30-05-2014
42 STORIES
Letters
Ukraine under attack
Global mergers
Threat from big pharma
Astronomy
Realistic virtual universe
Astronomy
Saturn’s hexagon
Essay
Spheres of influence
The strong and consistent Anglo-American tradition of maintaining spheres of influence continued all through the last century and exists still. Yet, a
World Affairs
‘Policeman of the New World’
Wildlife
Riddle of zebra stripes
Jayati Ghosh
Blaming the ‘other’
Data Card
Trade in rupee
India weighs rupee trade options with a number of countries, including many non-oil producing ones, to reduce the drain of forex reserves.
World Affairs
Stonewalled state
Israeli intransigence derails the U.S.-brokered peace agreement on a two-state solution, but the Palestinian Authority retaliates with deft political
Books
Cultural encounters
An important collaborative work that cuts across disciplinary boundaries and weaves together visual and textual histories to investigate the dynamics
Communalism
River of blood
The massacre in the villages of the Bodoland Territorial Area is seen by the minority community as yet another attempt by the Bodoland People’s Front
Books
Creative tales
It is difficult to box Ashok Srinivasan’s stories into a particular genre, but whatever genre one settles on, there is no doubt that the stories are c
Tamil Nadu
Height advantage
States round-up
Violations galore
Terrorism
Clueless in Chennai
The police are still in the dark about the purpose of or the persons and organisations behind the twin bomb blasts that rocked Chennai Central railway
Cover Story
Challenge to democracy
The Election Commission’s helplessness in the face of a campaign against it by the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate, Narendra Modi, and blatant viola
West Bengal
Murder in jail
Controversy
Breach of faith
The Supreme Court orders a special audit of the properties of the Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Thiruvananthapuram after divesting the Travancore roy
Tamil Nadu
End of ‘bull run’
Caste-related massacre
Tsunduru’s agony
It took 16 years for the Special Court to convict the accused in the Tsunduru massacre of 1991 in Andhra Pradesh in which eight Dalits were killed. No
Praveen Kumar, CEO, Tamil Nadu
‘We tried to stop money transactions.’
Interview with Praveen Kumar, Chief Electoral Officer, Tamil Nadu.
Model code of conduct
Code & conflicts
Books
More light on a hero
The book serves a useful purpose in preserving the revolutionary legacy of Bhagat Singh.
Interview: H.S. Brahma
Challenges, past and present
Interview with H.S. Brahma, Election Commissioner.
Social Issues
High tension in Hisar
The alleged abduction and rape of four Dalit girls by caste Hindus escalates tensions in Haryana’s Hisar district, which is already polarised on caste
Interview
‘Model code is like a fire brigade’
Interview with S.Y. Quraishi, former CEC.
SIMI
Ban without basis
The continuation of the ban on SIMI raises questions about the functioning of the tribunal set up under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and t
Cuba
U.S. dirty tricks
An investigation blows the lid off USAID’s covert Twitter-like platform aimed at destabilising the Cuban government.
Turkey
Crackdown at Taksim
Protests build up against Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, but he remains defiant, cracking down on the May Day rally in Istanbul and even indicat
Egypt
Noose around Egypt
It is back to the Mubarak era in Egypt as the country is headed for a one-party authoritarian rule after a brief but heady hiatus. Liberal parties tha
Paramilitary forces
A different battle
The paramilitary forces battle terrorists, insurgents and naxalites and even play a role in the smooth conduct of elections, but it is the fight for d
Interview
‘Enforcement is very poor’
Interview with Dushyant Dave.
Myanmar
Hope and angst
Myanmar presents a mixed picture three years after the launch of reforms, and the next presidential election holds the key to which way the country wi
Covering elections
News space on sale
Political parties flush with funds provided by corporate houses are winning over journalists, and some news organisations are creating packages for el
Proportional representation
For fair representation
It is time India moved towards a system of at least partial proportional representation as the present first-past-the-post system often results in ske
Maharashtra
Ban on mangoes
Corporate social responsibility
Evening the score
Interview with Pooran C. Pandey, Executive Director, United Nations Global Compact Network India, on corporate social responsibility.
Conservation
Elusive hunter
The leopard is unique in that it can live in every kind of habitat, including human-dominated landscapes, sugarcane fields, rocky outskirts, evergreen
Letters
fl30 letters
Leiden plates
Mystery of a royal grant
The Leiden plates provide a glimpse of the story of how a great Buddhist centre of learning and spirituality flourished in Nagapattinam thanks to the
Books
India in the changing world
The book, comprising 17 articles, deals with India’s role in the changing global political and economic order and attempts to show how difficult, and
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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
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08-09-2023
Meira Paibis: How Manipur’s peace-keepers became agents provocateur
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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
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‘In the Shadow’: An Odia story in translation
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