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The RSS' cultural onslaught
In this issue
26-12-2014
37 STORIES
Economic Perspectives
Bad news in good days
Letters
Letters to the Editor
Jayati Ghosh
The unkindest cut
Column
Caste spins and readings
Moral policing
Space for love
In a counter to right-wing onslaught on the freedom of expression, youngsters retake public spaces through organised resistance.
West Bengal
On the back foot
Mamata Banerjee and her party seem to be hemmed in by problems of their own creation.
The UAE
Upfront against terrorism
The UAE is no longer the understated player it used to be on the foreign policy front, and its main goal is “to fight terrorism and restore stability”
Cover Story
Now, the real agenda
Having established itself in power at the Centre, the Sangh Parivar has earnestly started pushing its communal projects in various spheres of life in
Diplomacy
Behind the bonhomie
India’s diplomatic chill with Pakistan and the failure of SAARC members to sign any significant agreement render the Kathmandu summit’s objective of “
PM's visit to Fiji
Pacific bridge
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s short but action-packed visit to Fiji gives India an opportunity to extend its development partnership throughout the P
Assembly Elections: Jharkhand
Mission impossible?
The BJP’s ambitious “Mission 45” plan in Jharkhand seems to have come unstuck over its inability to penetrate the tribal strongholds of the JMM.
Rani ki Vav
A queen’s tribute
Rani ki Vav, a spectacular 11th-century stepwell in Patan, Gujarat, is now a UNESCO world heritage site.
Saffronising education
Twisted texts
A series of steps taken by the government in the name of reforms lay bare its motive to saffronise education and educational institutions at all costs
The Hindutva project
Distorting history, manufacturing culture
All nationalist histories construct and reconstruct the past and have a political dimension to them. The Hindutva project has an additional, fascist,
Assembly Elections: Jammu and Kashmir
Voting with hope
Despite the separatists’ call for a boycott, the people of Kashmir turn out in large numbers to vote. Have issues of governance taken priority over po
Social Issues
“It is a class attack”
Interview with Manik Sarkar, Chief Minister of Tripura.
Politics of meat-eating
Messing with food habits
The Sangh Parivar’s food prescriptions perpetuate an uncomplicated upper-caste notion of Hinduism and alienate Muslims, Christians, Dalits and other l
Institutions
Fence eating the crops
The CBI Director’s exit from the 2G spectrum allocation scam probe raises questions about the agency’s autonomy.
Lead Story
Provocations in Tamil Nadu
Books
Changing China
An overwhelming focus on the state and the CPC is both the strength and the weakness of the book. The author explains clearly the ideology and rationa
Bhopal Gas Tragedy
Betrayed & forsaken
The survivors of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy try to hold on to their memories and still nurse hopes of securing justice some day.
The United States
Now, Ferguson
A vicious pattern of the African American community, already hit by high poverty and rising unemployment rates, being stereotyped and targeted by law-
Books
Village studies
Reflections on the structure of and changes in the social life of rural India.
Books
Tales spies tell
A useful book by a former RAW officer, but marred by inaccuracies and salacious details.
Heritage
Mapping the well, digitally
Livelihood Issues
Scheming against the poor
The Left and other national parties protest against the NDA government’s attempts to dilute the MGNREGS by limiting its budget and reducing its reach.
Nuclear Energy
Safety first
At Rawatbhatta in Rajasthan, work on two 700 MWe indigenous reactors is in full swing, with safety as an important consideration.
Sri Lanka
Tough fight ahead
As Mahinda Rajapaksa seeks a record third term in office, the opposition, for once, is united and has the support of an influential leader of the Budd
ASEAN & EAS
Eastward ho!
The planners of the Prime Minister’s journey to East Asia in November scored high in terms of making the optimal use of his presence in the region. Th
Kerala
To the edge and back
Another outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza, this time in Kerala, rattles public health authorities and duck farmers and freezes th
U.S. & CUBA
Rethink on blockade
There are indications that the U.S. may consider easing its blockade of Cuba, which has inflicted on the island over $1.1 trillion in economic costs a
Controversy
Godman in trouble
The Haryana Police arrest the self-styled godman Rampal, who is an accused in a murder case, after a violent clash with his devotees in his ashram in
Xenophobia
Targeting ‘the Other’
North-eastern India figures prominently in the Sangh Parivar’s new scheme of things. While poor Muslims there and in many other parts of the country a
Essay
Muslims and police
Commissions of inquiry have sometimes exposed shocking details of communal bias in the functioning of the institutions of law enforcement. Yet, little
Travel
Sichuan: Scenic and sacred
Sichuan is a pastoral paradise, much more varied and beautiful than its neighbour, the stark but stunning Tibet. It is also home to the first and the
Data Card
Towards nuclear self-reliance
The 50th year of the Indian nuclear fuel reprocessing programme underlines India’s mastery in all aspects of the nuclear cycle.
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