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India's prohibition policy dilemmas

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01-05-201540 STORIES

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C.P. Chandrasekhar

China’s surplus & strategy

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The United States

Debt sentences

Almost 50 million people in the U.S. are carrying student debt. The level of debt is vast, now over $1 trillion, and is a drag on the entire economy.

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Brontosaurus is back!

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Putting out fire with bass

From disease to epidemic

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Tangled history

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Saturn’s rotation speed

Letter to the Editor

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Sri Lanka: The more things change...

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Through my window

The idea of home

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Patel the non-Bismarck

It was Lord Mountbatten who went out of his way to secure the accession of the princely states to India, not Sardar Patel, though the latter played a

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Kanha to Satpura

Operation Barasingha

In January and March this year, 16 barasingha deer were transported from the Kanha National Park in a large customised truck specially to the Satpura

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The real Kejriwal

The Aam Aadmi Party is shorn of its tag of being a party with a difference because of the undemocratic tendencies that have developed in it.

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‘The idea of AAP must be realised’

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Interview: Naba K. Mondal

Unfounded fears

Interview with Professor Naba K. Mondal, Project Director, India-based Neutrino Observatory.

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‘One Belt One Road’ initiative

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Neutrino project

Fact of the matter

Scientists are trying hard to dispel the fears of villagers near the proposed site of the India-based Neutrino Observatory in Theni about the research

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Return of Buhari

The former military ruler is elected President as voters feel the need for a strongman to tackle the serious security challenges posed by Boko Haram

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A deal for now

Iran and the United States sign an interim accord with a June 30 deadline for a final agreement, but the U.S. keeps “all options open” if any aspect o

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Massacre in the hills

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Mindless in Male

The Abdullah Yameen government gets former President Mohamed Nasheed a 13-year jail term for the arrest and detention of a judge and manages to bar hi

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Class & classification

The Kerala High Court’s decision to uphold the State government’s liquor policy limiting grant of bar licences to five-star hotels raises more questio

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Of revenues, bribes and regulation

The States have experimented with different types of liquor policy but none has succeeded in regulating this sector for the larger social welfare.

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Historical evidence

No easy way out

Historical and anthropological evidence from the People of India project and other sources points to the existence of alcohol consumption in India fro

‘We misjudged Arvind’

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A suicide and many questions

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Interview: Shanthi Ranganathan

Road to poverty

Interview with Shanthi Ranganathan, founder of Chennai’s T.T. Ranganathan Clinical Research Foundation, a pioneering facility in India to treat alcoho

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Tracing rice domestication in India

Interview with Rakesh Tewari, Director General, Archaeological Survey of India.

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From the southern States

Money spinner

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Battle for Sana’a

As Yemen is attacked by a Saudi Arabia-led coalition determined to unseat the Shia Houthis in Sana’a, it is the civilians, caught in the crossfire, wh

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The Chinese century?

There seems to be no stopping the rise and rise of China as prominent members of the Atlantic alliance desert the U.S. to join China’s Asian Infrastru

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Gujarat & north-eastern States

Dry only in name

Prohibition has been the policy of Gujarat from the inception of the State, but that has not prevented the flow of liquor there.

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Celebration time

One year after it voted to leave Ukraine, the Crimean peninsula is completely integrated with the Russian Federation and its people are making it clea

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Consumed by alcohol

The political battles in Kerala over bar licences have obscured the dangerous reality that the State’s liquor business, nurtured and nourished by a mu

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Triumph of humanism

The book calls for serious reflection on the demands of notions of community, solidarity and public life.

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Romancing the railways

The book puts the railways in the context of Mumbai’s growth and provides nuggets of information about the heritage of the Central Railway.

De-addiction business

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Relief and religious identity

The author portrays the conflicts between competing interests in post-disaster Gujarat and shows the tenuous links between neoliberalism as a politica

The ‘seconds’

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The death penalty

Many countries, including India, use it to tackle real or perceived threats.

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