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India's prohibition policy dilemmas
In this issue
01-05-2015
41 STORIES
C.P. Chandrasekhar
China’s surplus & strategy
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.
Palaeontology
Brontosaurus is back!
Technology
Putting out fire with bass
Medicine
From disease to epidemic
Jayati Ghosh
Tangled history
Solar system
Saturn’s rotation speed
Letters
Letter to the Editor
Sashi Kumar
Sri Lanka: The more things change...
World Affairs
‘One Belt One Road’ initiative
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
Nigeria
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
Iran-U.S.
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
Andhra Pradesh
Massacre in the hills
Maldives
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
Legal aspect
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
Liquor policy
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.
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
Politics
‘We misjudged Arvind’
Tamil Nadu
A suicide and many questions
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
Archaeology
Tracing rice domestication in India
Interview with Rakesh Tewari, Director General, Archaeological Survey of India.
From the southern States
Money spinner
Yemen
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
China
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
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.
Crimea
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
Cover Story
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
Books
Triumph of humanism
The book calls for serious reflection on the demands of notions of community, solidarity and public life.
Books
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.
Lead Story
De-addiction business
Books
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
Lead Story
The ‘seconds’
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
AAP crisis
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.
Politics
‘The idea of AAP must be realised’
Interview: Naba K. Mondal
Unfounded fears
Interview with Professor Naba K. Mondal, Project Director, India-based Neutrino Observatory.
Through my window
The idea of home
Essay
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
Death penalty
The death penalty
Many countries, including India, use it to tackle real or perceived threats.
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