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03-04-201538 STORIES

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Freethinker silenced

Fundamentalist forces strike again, killing the writer and blogger Avijit Roy in Dhaka in what is being perceived as yet another attack on freethinki

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Interview: Film-maker Rakesh Sharma

‘The feminists’ position is extremely short-sighted’

Interview with documentary film-maker Rakesh Sharma.

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Dynasty in democracy

In democracies governed by a dynasty, the leader is the prime fundraiser with control over the party machine and sees to it that the leading members r

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Unlikely editor

Vinod Mehta (1942-2015) was self-taught, intellectually honest and, unlike the typical editor, a minimalist—a man of action and very few words.

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Republic of Tahrir

Obituaries for the 2011 revolution are only now emerging. The general sense is of futility: What was the point of the uprising if the outcome is worse

Letters to the Editor

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Interview: Vrinda Grover

‘Right to justice at stake’

Interview with Vrinda Grover, lawyer and human rights activist.

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Gender inequalities: Universal experience

Cracking of the mirror

The gang rape and its aftermath, Leslee Udwin believes, universalised both the experience of gender inequality and the fight against it. She wanted to

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Terror of performance

This significant book distinguishes the experience of terror from the ideology of “terrorism” carefully cultivated since 9/11.

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Free speech vs justice

Delicate balance

The controversy over the telecast of “India’s Daughter” brings to the fore the need to balance free speech with legitimate restraints in the interest

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B for Bharat

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Noon meal without egg

T.N. Kaul's letter to Indira Gandhi

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Paramilitary forces

Raw deal

The government’s treatment of the National Disaster Response Force, which battles heavy odds to perform its duties, is seen as highly discriminatory.

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‘Driven by the communal agenda’

Interview with Ram Puniyani, social activist.

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An end to power cuts

Researchers at IIT Madras come up with an innovative solution to link decentralised solar-based DC power to grid-based AC power which has the potentia

Indira Gandhi's letter to T.N. Kaul

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Relief for professor

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Beef ban

The BJP-Shiv Sena government in Maharashtra bans the sale and possession of beef. The cultural and economic implications of the new law can be serious

Unchanged in over 12 billion years

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Jammu & Kashmir

Troubled start

The actions and pronouncements of Mufti Mohammed Sayeed soon after assuming office as the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir have been terribly embar

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Double paradox in Antarctica

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ISRO’s Mars images

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Delhi durbar

Torn apart by internal conflict soon after its stupendous electoral success in Delhi, the Aam Aadmi Party struggles to remain united and keep its fo

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Inadequate measures

Words and deeds

The furore about the documentary film on the Delhi gang-rape draws attention to how inadequate the government’s measures are in dealing with crimes ag

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Shooting the messenger

In denial

Instead of acknowledging and addressing systemic problems such as rape and other forms of violence against women and regressive mindsets, the governm

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Socio-economic factors

Missing the point

There is a need to address the factors that lead to the increase in the violence against women. For this, a more consistent examination of the socio-e

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Public funds to push neoliberal agenda

The Modi government has apparently realised that the private sector is not up to the task of driving growth. It hopes to fund its neoliberal dream of

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Understanding culture

The wide-ranging field the book covers and the vividness of the conceptual concerns it encapsulates make it an important source of reference on the cu

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Arrest in the hills

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Pact for peace

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In tune with nature

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Development Issues

Vanishing lakes of Hyderabad

Rapid and unplanned urbanisation has shrunk and polluted Hyderabad’s waterbodies, main among them the Hussain Sagar Lake.

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How not to treat agriculture

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Ban as a political practice

Politics of ban

The practice of ban has been prevalent in India since the time of the British, through the many decades of Independence, and it continues to grow with

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Rape and the Indian record

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K.Satchidanandan

Finding her voice

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The story behind the stories

These two books by journalists are written with eloquent simplicity.

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