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How to ruin a country: a U.S. guide
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25-07-2014
36 STORIES
Column
The missing honeymoon
Conservation
Killing fields
The houbara bustard is being hunted into extinction. Are we prepared to remain mute spectators to this slaughter or will we stand up for this elegant,
Books
Ambedkar and Gandhi
This book has been a long time in the coming, and even if it falters at places, it still serves an important function.
Readers respond
Letters to the Editor
Lead Story
Uncertain diplomacy
Crime
Double standards
Even as the outcry for the resignation of a Union Minister accused in a sexual assault case grows, the Bharatiya Janata Party tries to play it down as
Physics
How does a football swerve?
Particle Physics
Antimatter charge
Public Health
Disease and ecology
Many parasitic diseases occur as a result of changes in the ecosystem and human behaviour; hence, an understanding of the role of the environment is e
Maharashtra
Quota calculations
Tamil Nadu
Questions over an appointment
World Affairs
A good start
Bangladesh
Nowhere people
Urdu-speaking “Biharis”, who migrated to East Pakistan from Bengal and Bihar during Partition and who fought alongside the Pakistan Army in the 1971
West Bengal
Rape threat, filmi style
Physics
Seeing a single photon
Patents
Trying ‘mediation’
Ellora
Monolithic marvel
West Bengal
District No. 20
Heritage
Southern connection
Tamil Nadu
Another Dalit victim
Gujarat pogrom
Modi is accountable
The crimes of 2002 cannot be forgotten. It is still not too late for Narendra Modi to make amends by a sincere, thorough programme of rehabilitation o
FIFA World Cup
On equal footing
In the most exciting and unpredictable World Cup so far in recent times, the minnows hold their ground against the giants of football.
Judiciary
Collision course?
By segregating senior advocate Gopal Subramanium’s name from the four names recommended by the Supreme Court collegium for appointment to the apex cou
Higher Education
A battle won
The rollback of Delhi University’s four-year undergraduate programme is the result of a united struggle by the university community against what could
Books
An artistic path
An exhaustive study presenting a multidimensional view of Veenapani Chawla’s journey in the realm of theatre.
BNHS report
Hail of death
A BNHS report shows mass mortality of wildlife in a series of hailstorms in Maharashtra on a scale not recorded before in India.
Monsoon
El Nino worries
El Nino is expected to hit in the second half of the monsoon period, but whether it will cause a drought is still not certain. While consumers may be
Interview: Gopal Subramanium
‘The collegium did not defend me’
Interview with Gopal Subramanium, senior advocate in the Supreme Court.
Lead Story
Blowback time
The tinderbox of regional chaos was opened by the U.S. invasion of Iraq and the Gulf Arab-Turkey support for Islamist fighters in northern Syria and I
Cinema
Boxing as a metaphor
Interview with film-maker Judhajit Sarkar.
Khashi Katha
Of loss & desperation
A new small-budget film on the underdog’s struggle for survival in Kolkata, employing a narrative technique borrowed from Thousand And One Arabian Nig
Interview: Abhinav Chandrachud
‘Powerful governments have attacked judicial independence’
Interview with Abhinav Chandrachud, legal expert.
Cover Story
Mother of all battles
The American occupation was the death knell of the republican, modern, secular, nationalist Iraqi state, and a deliberate attempt to undermine all suc
Datacard
Gas pricing
The new government decides on a policy of wait and watch on raising gas prices.
Column
The Argentina debt case
Unmediated
The fact of fiction
Archive
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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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