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BJP's divisive politics

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03-10-201434 STORIES

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C.P. Chandrasekhar

Passing the buck

A plan for India

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Bipan Chandra: Historian of courage

Bipan Chandra (1928-2014) was an outstanding historian with a passion for making quality academic work available to a wider public and an indomitable

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Tenuous truce

At the end of the 50-day war on Gaza, Israel is a divided house. But Hamas is firmly in control of the occupied territory, with its popularity among P

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A trailblazer

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Volatile boundary

The recent clashes on the Assam-Nagaland border have reinforced the fact that the boundary dispute between two States has remained one of the most int

Letters to the Editor

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Fighting for policy space

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Focus on cameras

A recent exhibition in New Delhi of vintage cameras provided a window into the long history of the camera and photography.

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Signs of peace

Russia sees the Ukranian government’s ceasefire pact with the eastern rebels as a definitive step forward to peace, but the U.S. and Britain have ac

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Sangh Parivar & Hindutva

In communal overdrive

After the resounding victory in the Lok Sabha elections, the Sangh Parivar is gearing up for the next big game, to achieve total Hindutva dominance of

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Prefiguring journalistic truth-telling

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Playing to the gallery

India will not become a “great power” by courting the “great powers”. Its greatness will be recognised and lauded only if it succeeds in resolving its

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The Army in Pakistan

Two accounts on the Pakistan Army deliver a mixed bag—an objective history by one and sweeping conclusions by the other.

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Business as usual

Narendra Modi’s visit to Japan, far from inaugurating a new era, stayed very much in the well-established framework, building on projects and policies

Clashes and casualties

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Earth Overshoot Day

The planet does not have the capacity to keep on satisfying the current rate of human demands on its resources, nor can it absorb the waste being gene

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Lawless in Libya

The entire country has become a battlefield and the West has washed its hands of the disaster that it contributed to create.

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Rise of the right-wing agenda

Interview with independent film-maker Rakesh Sharma.

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The fight for equity

India must engage with as many countries as possible to evolve a common strategy for advancing the idea of equity, as a legally binding instrument is

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Bear facts

Poaching, illegal trade in bears for their body parts, and human-bear conflicts pose a great threat to the sloth bear species, which is endemic to the

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In a cleft stick

The Union Ministry of Minority Affairs’ role and relevance remain ambiguous as it is part of a government with a majoritarian agenda.

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Mirage of inclusion

The Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana, the Narendra Modi government’s attempt at financial inclusion of the poor, is unlikely to prove effective because

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Liberal voice

Balraj Puri (1928-2014) upheld the values of a secular democracy and the need always to tell the truth.

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Divide and win

Fear and justice

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Simla Convention

British wiles in Tibet

The territorial concessions that the British won for India from Tibet in 1914 were received after the Chinese exited the conference at Shimla.

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Enfant terrible

Rashid Jahan, Urdu literature’s angry young woman, inspired a host of other women writers although her body of work was slender.

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Justice as Governor?

P. Sathasivam’s acceptance of the post of Governor of Kerala four months after he retired as Chief Justice of India is widely seen as inappropriate an

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Closer to democracy

There is hope as well as cynicism in Fiji as the multiracial nation goes to the polls to elect a new, more representative, 50-member National Assembly

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Memorable innings

A book on the history of cricket in Pakistan, well researched with attention to detail but often given to hyperbole and gushing admiration.

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Saffron slant

Using education as a tool of indoctrination, the RSS and various organisations associated with it have begun a systematic campaign in BJP-ruled States

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India’s nuclear power

While the performance of India’s nuclear power reactors offers plenty of reasons to cheer, there are many hurdles ahead.

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Alarming act

The amendments the Tamil Nadu government has made to its law of preventive detention threaten fundamental rights and the principle of rehabilitative

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