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Ebola's global threat and India's preparedness
In this issue
28-11-2014
40 STORIES
Economic vision
How the Congress rejected the Nehruvian economic trajectory
The Nehruvian economic trajectory was premised on the idea of winning economic independence from foreign capital.
C.P. Chandrasekhar
Dipping NRI interest
Unmediated
Close-up and up close
Jayati Ghosh
‘Cleaning up’ India
Readers write
Letters to the Editor
Risk preparedness
Wake-up call
The Ebola disease outbreak draws attention to the need for preparedness and for more government spending on public health infrastructure.
Lead Story
Is India prepared?
Spotlight
Caught between life and death
The Palk Strait has become a dangerous fishing ground for the fishermen of Tamil Nadu, particularly Rameswaram. They hope that the Central government
Research
For a vaccine
The WHO’s special consultation meeting in September discusses potential therapies and vaccines, but the affected countries, being poor, do not represe
Lead Story
Nigerian lesson
Cover Story
Global scare
It is estimated that up to 1.4 million people could be infected with the Ebola virus by the end of January. Such scary projections notwithstanding, in
India
Complex crisis
India-Vietnam
Strategic entente
India makes an earnest effort to increase its footprint in Vietnam and give new life to its “Look East” policy during the recent visit of the Vietname
India
Tuna tales
Books
BJP’s India
The two books look at how the rise of the BJP, with its antagonism towards Muslims and its priorities on security, is reshaping India.
Communalism
Flames of hatred
The recent communal violence in Trilokpuri brings to fore the tensions that have been brewing for some time.
Indian connection
Outreach and awareness
The experience of an Indian doctor, Kalyani Gomathinayagam, who went to Liberia as part of the Medicins Sans Frontieres group in Africa.
Gabriel Atencio Ruiz
Hero and human
The Colombian-born artist Gabriel Atencio Ruiz brings the South American hero Simon Bolivar to us in flesh and blood.
Books
Missing the point
The book fails to demonstrate the tools for risk assessment that are broad-based enough to accommodate multiple specialisations and concerns.
Books
Focus on inequality
Thomas Piketty has brought the popular discussion of inequality and its causes and consequences to the forefront.
Karnataka
Hope for Kadu Gollas
Warren M. Anderson
Culpable leadership
The fact that Warren M. Anderson (1921-2014), former chairman of UCC, could escape trial highlights India’s incapacity to bring to justice the foreig
Controversy
Kiss and chaos
A show of affection in public is a battle yet to be won in Kerala.
Climate change
Right synthesis
West Bengal
Terror trail
Nobel Prize/Chemistry
Microscopy to nanoscopy
The Nobel Prize-winning works of Eric Betzig, Stefan W. Hell and William E. Moerner fall under what has come to be called “super-resolution microscopy
Brazil
Dilma’s challenges
Dilma Rousseff, who has won a second term as President in a tough election, will have to make changes in style and substance if the curtains are not t
Kerala
Court wants law on hartals
Northern Africa
Uprisings and downturn
The wave of Tahrir has crashed hard. Libya spins into chaos, Egypt into the vice of military power, while Tunisia voted in the social classes that ha
Black Money
Fait accompli?
Narendra Modi claims that bringing back black money stashed abroad is an “article of faith” for him, but it remains to be seen whether the NDA governm
Interview: Harsh Vardhan, Union Health Minister
‘We are not taking any chances’
Interview with Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan.
An eye on elections
Ebola in America
Travel
Heritage trail
Environment
Seeing red about going green
Burkina Faso
Fall of a strongman
Blaise Compaore’s ouster as President in a popular uprising has left a political vacuum as the opposition is against a military ruler.
Essay
What is Sufism?
Rooted in the Quran, Sufism is the quest for the Divine within man. There is a rich record of interaction between Sufis and Hindus, a large number of
Datacard
Coal block auction
Having opted for the e-auction route following the de-allocation of coal blocks, the government has to ensure a transparent and fool-proof bidding sys
Social Issues
Recitation row
Does one caste group have the sole right to sit before the deity and sing a set of hymns? This question is at the centre of a long-running feud in a t
Communalism
Orgy of myth making
With a BJP government at the Centre, rewriting history and suppressing alternative points of view seem to be the order of the day.
Divya Trivedi
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India’s oscillating opposition and the dynamic evolution of protest politics
The crisis of the secular opposition
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