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Obama's visit and its implications

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20-02-201542 STORIES

VIJAY PRASHAD BOOK

For broader horizons

Science & Technology

Blood glucose & pancreatic cancer

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The path of yoga

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Science & Technology

No ant traffic jams

Letters to the Editor

Science & Technology

Planetary boundaries crossed

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Giving & taking offence

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Science & Technology

‘Lost’ and found

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From the Archives: July 31, 1998

Laxman’s-eye view

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Global slavery

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Freedom of Expression

The rest is silence

Bullied and heckled at a "peace committee meeting" by casteist outfits who found his novel Madhorubagan offensive, the writer Perumal Muruga

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Interview: Prakash Karat

Towards becoming a subordinate ally

Interview with Prakash Karat, general secretary, Communist Party of India (Marxist).

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King of cartoon

There is much to be celebrated in R.K. Laxman’s (1921-2015) extraordinary life: his magnificent talent, his ability to conjure up Indian faces, and hi

Bypassing legal process

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Saffronised censor

The Modi government fills the vacancies in the film censor board with persons “proud” of their association with the BJP, after the resignation of Leel

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India’s Muslim socialists

An encyclopaedic account of the intellectual ferment among the Muslims of India.

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From the Archives: April 5,1996

Cartooning in India

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Lucid life story

The book establishes Kanshiram as a revolutionary figure and gives him a space in political history.

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Nehru phobia

The Nehru phobia will last as long as the battle for India’s soul rages.

The uncommon man

An admiration that began in the art gallery and grew with the years.

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An order and a snub

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Charlie Hebdo attack

Shocking in Paris

The Charlie Hebdo attack leaves the world shocked but throws open questions about the limits of freedom of speech, the selective demonising of certain

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Justice delayed

The long-delayed war crime trials in Bangladesh and the convictions they result in do not right the wrongs done to the victims, but there is succour i

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Refugee in his own land

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From the Archives: January 31, 1992

Of crows… and cartoons

Interview with R.K. Laxman.

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Brutality against women

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Questions over a dismissal

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Interview: Piyush Goyal

‘There is no intention to denationalise Coal India’

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Tough transition

The new succession order, announced with unusual speed after King Abdullah’s passing away, prepares the ground for a generational shift in the Gulf ki

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Enduring legacy

Rajni Kothari (1928-2015) and his team were the first to recognise the salience of caste, now a crucial political and secularised category.

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Dangerous tilt

The U.S. has been trying to draw India into the anti-China security grouping as part of its “pivot to the East” policy. But such a tilt may not serve

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Bending it for investors?

The Obama visit has fuelled the government’s deep desire to woo foreign investors with major concessions, possibly in bilateral investment treaties. P

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Behind the scenes

Lack of definition and of transparency governed the entire trip. Deals were struck behind closed doors, often to set aside parliamentary laws.

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Land Acquisition Act

Ordinance raj

The Narendra Modi government adopts the ordinance route to amend the Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013, by subverting Parli

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Layoffs and lessons

The furore over TCS’ efforts to terminate a large number of its employees in order to cut costs brings to the fore the fact that the era of big growth

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Upset and after

Mahinda Rajapaksa goes, defeated by an eclectic political coalition. Can the coalition partners, with different political agendas, find ways to work t

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Deals and doubts

It is the U.S. military-industrial complex that has gained the most from President Barack Obama’s visit. India is closer to becoming a member of a qua

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Routing Rajapaksa

Rajapaksa, the president who would be king, subverted every democratic institution to serve his personal ends. It took a coalition of ethnic and relig

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Nuclear power programme

Hurdles ahead

An impasse in India expanding its nuclear power programme following the deal with the U.S., which came into force in 2008, has been resolved thanks ma

Provisions of the Act

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Assembly Elections

Advantage AAP?

Will a series of tactical blunders made by the BJP in Delhi pave the way for the AAP’s second coming?

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Wildlife Survey

Tiger triumph

While the results of the four-yearly survey showing a 30 per cent increase in the tiger population in India signal a victory for the recent conservati

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