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Obama's visit and its implications
In this issue
20-02-2015
43 STORIES
Books
For broader horizons
Science & Technology
Blood glucose & pancreatic cancer
Spotlight
The path of yoga
Science & Technology
No ant traffic jams
Letters
Letters to the Editor
Science & Technology
Planetary boundaries crossed
Sashi Kumar
Giving & taking offence
Science & Technology
‘Lost’ and found
Lead Story
Provisions of the Act
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?
India
Bypassing legal process
Controversy
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
Books
India’s Muslim socialists
An encyclopaedic account of the intellectual ferment among the Muslims of India.
Foreign policy
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
Economy
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
Obama's visit
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.
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
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
TCS
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
Bangladesh
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
SRI LANKA
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
Cover Story
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
SRI LANKA
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
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
From the Archives: April 5,1996
Cartooning in India
India
Refugee in his own land
From the Archives: January 31, 1992
Of crows… and cartoons
Interview with R.K. Laxman.
Books
Lucid life story
The book establishes Kanshiram as a revolutionary figure and gives him a space in political history.
Books
Nehru phobia
The Nehru phobia will last as long as the battle for India’s soul rages.
Obituary
The uncommon man
An admiration that began in the art gallery and grew with the years.
West Bengal
Brutality against women
Maldives
Questions over a dismissal
Sukhna scam
An order and a snub
Interview: Piyush Goyal
‘There is no intention to denationalise Coal India’
Saudi Arabia
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
Rajni Kothari
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.
R.K. Laxman
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
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
Interview: Prakash Karat
Towards becoming a subordinate ally
Interview with Prakash Karat, general secretary, Communist Party of India (Marxist).
Data Card
Global slavery
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
From the Archives: July 31, 1998
Laxman’s-eye view
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Movie trailers: The unofficial manifestos of our time
Viral fever: The curious spectacle of campaign films
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Close encounters with the third kind
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