Taliban's terror attack in Peshawar

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09-01-201541 STORIES

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Economic Perspectives

Asian banks in trouble

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One more chimera

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A case for caste census

As the Supreme Court has ruled that conducting a caste-based census is against the law, the people would like to know what steps the Prime Minister wi

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Conquering fear

The research findings of Sumantra Chattarji and Supriya Ghosh may lead to a potential therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder.

The list of castes given in the order for Tamil Nadu (Part XVI)

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Fall from grace

Protesters demand President Enrique Pena Nieto’s resignation as the political crisis in Mexico deepens following the disappearance of 43 students.

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Interview: Ramagopalan

‘It is just a homecoming’

Interview with Ramagopalan, founder-leader of the Hindu Munnani in Tamil Nadu.

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Destroying shrines

Religious faith has never been the sole reason for the destruction of places of worship; greed and a desire to assert power are also at play. The Babr

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Like days of yore

The 2014 India-Russia summit in New Delhi yields a raft of substantive agreements between the two countries.

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The mortals of Devdas

An actual relationship in the writer’s youth may have produced the protagonists of Devdas, but they are, in the end, a metaphor for the human self stu

Law & artistic freedom

This analysis of the artists’ rights is relevant for India.

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Diaspora dynamics

The author traces a complicated period in the evolution of Singapore and the diverse sociocultural configurations of the Indian diaspora there with re

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Justice at heart

Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer (1914-2014) had a unique judicial philosophy, a quality that stemmed from his belief that law evolved through diverse views

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Battles for social justice

The author vividly describes the atrocities committed on Dalits in Tamil Nadu and the Left’s sustained struggle against all forms of discrimination ba

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Interview: Asaduddin Owaisi

‘Hindutva elements feel emboldened by power’

Interview with Asaduddin Owaisi, MP and leader of the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul-Muslimeen.

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Culture and identity

Scholars and writers engage in a discussion on the Indian way of thinking at the culture course at Ninasam in Heggodu, Karnataka.

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Storytelling and social science

Interview with Shiv Vishwanathan, social scientist.

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Interview: Dr Abraham Mar Poulos

‘The government’s intention is suspicious’

Interview with Dr Abraham Mar Paulos, Diocesan Bishop of Delhi for the Mar Thoma Syrian Church of Malabar.

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Engaging with culture

Interview with K.V. Akshara, theatre director, playwright, translator and essayist, who heads Ninasam.

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Peshawar: The inside story

All religions are vulnerable to gross misrepresentation, mythification and mayhem. Perhaps Pakistan over the next two decades or so can demonstrate th

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Playtime

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Construction of tradition

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Ambedkar's critique

Return to which home?

B.R. Ambedkar’s critique of Hinduism before he embraced Buddhism remains valid even today.

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Roots of terror

The terrorist violence in Pakistan can be traced to the tight U.S. security embrace of the Cold War days, which gave birth to several “mujahideen” gro

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Massacre of the innocents

The Peshawar school carnage apparently forces a change in the Pakistani establishment’s approach to Islamist militancy. But the Pakistani Taliban thre

Law against a freedom

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Meenakshipuram conversion

The shocker

The Meenakshipuram conversions three decades ago came as a spontaneous response to upper-caste oppression in Tamil Nadu.

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Legacy of colonialism

Foreign swadeshi

The ghar wapsi campaign illustrates how the Sangh Parivar continues a legacy of colonialism in calling for a demographically “Hindutva” nation. In rea

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State of crisis

The government, the People’s Majlis and the judiciary are together trying to undermine Maldives’ Constitution of 2008. Their latest undemocratic act

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By means mostly foul

By their own admission, Sangh Parivar outfits have been engaged in reconversion in the Hindi heartland for two and a half decades. With the BJP’s rise

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America’s shame

The U.S. Senate’s report reveals that the CIA’s inhumane torture regime “to save American lives” had the blessings of the administration but produced

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State of Indian prisons

Judicial delays are among the main reasons for the overcrowding in Indian prisons, where undertrials constitute more than 60 per cent of the prisoners

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Two heroes

Rudrangshu Mukherjee emerges as the A.J.P. Taylor of modern Indian history with Nehru & Bose, his masterpiece on the lives of freedom’s co- worker

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Through my Window

Chiselled poetry

Letters

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Persecution of Chinese Indians

The least the Indian state can do is offer an apology for sending about 3,000 people of Chinese descent to a detention camp in the Rajasthan desert af

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Project Hindutva

The reconversion programmes of the Dharam Jagran Samiti and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad are part of a massive expansion plan of the Sangh Parivar.

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Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer: Constitutional nationalist

Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer understood Indian culture as the constitutional culture of India. For him this was the real Indian heritage, about which he

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Cultural hegemony

Conversion to Hindu Raj

The ghar wapsi campaign, which follows from the purification theories propounded by Golwalkar and Savarkar, implies a clear rejection of Muslims and C

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A range of fauna

The big cat is doing well in the large core zone of the Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve in spite of the considerable human presence in its vicinity. A tr

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