21-08-2015 COVER

Yakub Memon hanging

In this issue

21-08-201541 STORIES

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K.Satchidanandan

Spiritual revolutionaries of the South

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Taxing dilemma

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How poor is poor?

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A new life in Kanha

The Kanha Tiger Reserve’s goal-oriented strategies and systematic conservation practices have over the years made it an embodiment of the concept of b

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The defamation saga

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Forgetting history

Despite the opposition he faces inside and outside the parliament, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe seems determined to rewrite Japan’s pacifist Constitution

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Digital dispute

The usage of and access to the Internet hang in the balance as the government and TRAI are yet to come out with a firm policy on the issue of net neut

Letters to the Editor

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Calm convict

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Cause and effect

Although the police were able to quickly unravel the conspiracy behind the Mumbai bomb blasts and arrest many of those involved, the masterminds behin

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For a more equal world

The author focusses on diverse conceptualisations of inequality in the global and the historical context, emphasising that innumerable mechanisms gene

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History and terror

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A weak defence

The book, which aims to undertake a comprehensive evaluation of the socio-economic and environmental impact of the Sardar Sarovar Project based on emp

Restoring regularity

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A false dawn

The dynamics of diplomacy as demonstrated in the Camp David Accords and the lessons that the peace process associated with them hold for all strife-to

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Humour like a whip

What started off as a rant five years ago by the anonymous creators of a comic strip has emerged as a powerful voice of intelligent, disenchanted urba

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Pentaquark seen at CERN

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In search of alternatives

The Supreme Court is hearing a batch of petitions challenging the constitutionality of restraints on the State government’s power to remit sentences.

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‘We will not give in’

Interview with Teesta Setalvad, whose tireless pursuit of justice in cases of the Gujarat riots has resulted in 120 convictions so far.

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Earth’s bigger, older cousin

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Preventing beam buckling

‘Others’ and others

Mercy plea rejected, and still alive

‘Capital punishment unacceptable’

‘Certainty, not severity, of punishment must be guaranteed’

Interview with Brinda Karat, Polit Bureau member, Communist Party of India (Marxist), and former Rajya Sabha member.

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Debating death

The broad consensus on abolishing the death penalty at the Law Commission’s consultation with political leaders and eminent citizens augurs well for t

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Legal crusaders

The death penalty litigation clinic provides legal representation and aid to death-row convicts, especially those from the economically and socially b

‘We need other forms of punishment’

Interview with Shashi Tharoor, Member of Parliament.

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The slaughter of suicide data

Changing the way you count changes the count.

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A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

Technologist to the core

Former President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam (1931-2015), missile and rocket technologist, institution-builder and motivator of men, was relentless in his ques

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Eco-sensitive question

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Guilty as hell

Deaths of black Americans at the hands of the police continue unabated. On July 13, Sandra Bland, 28, who had been active in the Black Lives Matter mo

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Historic accord

Iran signs a nuclear deal with the U.S. and other countries of the P5+1, hoping to leave behind 20 years of Western sanctions and at the same time as

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Interview: B.V. Sreekantan

Peerless trail-blazer

In conversation with B.V. Sreekantan, cosmic ray physicist and astronomer.

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Elusive consensus

The 46th Indian Labour Conference, held after a delay of more than a year, was more about rhetoric than substance, with the recommendations of the pre

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Political games

Looking at the two controversial hangings in the recent past, that of Afzal Guru and Yakub Memon, it is clear that both the Congress and the BJP use t

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Trials of a death-row convict

Yakub Memon sought to avail himself of every legal option provided by law to secure his rights, but the Supreme Court’s lack of concern for his substa

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Pope and promise

Pope Francis and his convictions are a powerful force in a world struggling with the complexities of economic growth and his visit has the potential t

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Rediscovering Pluto

Initial images and data from the NASA spacecraft New Horizons’ recent rendezvous with Pluto point to a surprisingly craterless mosaic of relatively an

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Productive inmates

Productive in prison

Indian prisoners are producing goods of considerable value, earning the state handsome revenue, while acquiring vocational skills that will stand them

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Servile Sangh

Letters written by RSS leaders to the Prime Minister seeking release from jail during the Emergency reveal the opportunistic side of the Sangh, ready

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