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COVER STORY
11-07-2014
NGOs
The selective targeting of NGOs by the Modi government
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Briefing
‘Our struggle was funded by the people’
Lead Story
Interview with S.P. Udayakumar, coordinator, People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy.
‘The report is to discredit protests by people’
Lead Story
New truth regime
Lead Story
The Intelligence Bureau’s report gets it all wrong in accusing the robust civil society and its NGOs of threatening national economic security.
‘Right to protest under threat’
Lead Story
Interview with Samit Aich, executive director, Greenpeace India.
Holy cow
Lead Story
The I.B. report leaves out India’s biggest NGO, the RSS, which has been accused by independent fact-finding reports of accepting foreign funds in th
‘Need to regulate NGOs better’
Lead Story
Interview with BJP spokesperson Shahnawaz Hussain.
Syria
Confidence vote
World Affairs
The presidential election has once again proved that the majority of Syrians are behind President Bashar al-Assad despite the miseries caused by the c
Muzaffarnagar riots
Clutching at FIRs
Social Issues
The victims of the Muzaffarnagar riots still live in abysmal conditions in relief camps with no hope of justice or rehabilitation.
Labour Issues
Warning signals
India
Trade unions feel that the Rajasthan government’s proposed amendments to labour laws, which industry representatives have hailed, have serious implic
Letter from Beirut
Fighting for dignity
World Affairs
Around 300 Palestinians are on hunger strike in occupied Palestine protesting against the inhuman provision that allows the Israeli authorities to arr
Politically motivated: Medha Patkar
Lead Story
Communalism
Stoking the fire
Social Issues
Pune has become a breeding ground for Hindu militancy, and the deplorable attacks in June have exposed a dangerous communal problem that exists in th
China & the U.S.
Destabilising the East
World Affairs
With its policy of “rebalance to the East”, the U.S. is trying to use the long-simmering territorial disputes between China and its neighbours to sto
Sri Lanka
Attack in Aluthgama
World Affairs
The violence against Muslims in the coastal town by a Buddhist group leads to fears of a resurgence of the Sinhala nationalism that targeted Tamils in
Brazil
Price of extravagance
World Affairs
Brazilians continue to protest against the Dilma Roussef government for spending huge sums of money to host the FIFA World Cup at a time of economic d
India-Africa
A plan for partnership
World Affairs
Ways in which India can contribute to and benefit from Africa’s economic and political resurgence.
Virtual revolution
Books
On the dynamics of social upheavals spurred through the agency of social media.
Industry
Rebooting Infosys
India
In a business landscape that has changed drastically, Infosys searches for new strategies and direction as its founders step down.
Punjab
Crossing swords
India
Livelihood Issues
Sea of troubles
Social Issues
West Bengal
Murder in a mill
India
Controversy
Unpleasant journey
Social Issues
The detention, by the Railway Police at Palakkad Junction, of 579 children from northern and eastern States being taken to orphanages in Kerala withou
Centre & the States
For a fair share
India
Unable to meet the growing non-Plan expenditure commitments on salary, pension and development activities, the States seek a more equitable share of t
Cultural Policing
Publishers as censors
India
Targeting NGOs
Lead Story
The timing and contents of the I.B. report naming select NGOs and individuals as working against the national interest exposes the Narendra Modi gover
Readers Write
Letters to the Editor
Letters
Livelihood Issues
Double disadvantage
Social Issues
Governments on either side of the Palk Bay must realise that many years of displacement, lengthy processes of relocation, and huge losses suffered in
Rise and fall of PWM
Books
Rakhshanda Jalil’s book offers valuable insights into the emergence of a consciously progressive, almost left-wing, literary and cultural movement.
The good, the bad & the ugly
Lead Story
Essay
Modifying democracy
Politics
To reduce the members of the Council of Ministers to ciphers is to subvert the Constitution. The trend has been set afoot.
No legal bar
Lead Story
The Intelligence Bureau report can be taken as an admission by the government that there is nothing illegitimate about the funding of NGOs although it
Terrorism
Taking new routes
Social Issues
Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence, believed to be operating out of the Pakistan Mission in Colombo, seems to be at the centre of a terror network
Sonali Dasgupta
An affair to remember
Obituary
Educated in Santiniketan, refined and cultured, tall and lissome, Sonali Dasgupta personified the West’s perception of the enigmatic Indian beauty, wh
Datacard
Killing competition
Data Stories
Pharma multinationals use the FDI route to acquire Indian companies in order to monopolise the generic market.
Theatre
Refined recreation: Stage adaptation of Ponniyin Selvan
Arts & Culture
The stage adaptation of “Ponniyin Selvan”, presented in Chennai in June by Magic Lantern, does not disappoint as an honest attempt to retain the soul
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Feb 10, 2023
Hills of Hassan district plagued by perennial human-animal conflict
Tiger man, burning bright
Supreme Court stay on Haldwani evictions draws attention to need to codify housing laws
P. Sainath: ‘I wrote this book for the people in it’
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Jan 13, 2023
Sri Lankan Tamil Hindus seek India’s support as Sinhala government targets temples
Aggressive Koreas leave peninsula tense
Sex, lies, and chicken curry
A chat over tikki
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Jan 27, 2023
The Great Land Grab in Jammu and Kashmir
Great Nicobar development projects disregard risk in earthquake-prone area
How the Serendipity Arts Festival celebrated the spirit of community
Pele (1940-2022): At his feet, football transformed into poetry
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