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Suicide of farmers
In this issue
04-09-2015
38 STORIES
Medicine
Understanding the bonds that cause stomach infection
Books
River of life
Full of stories that are intense and involved, this book fills a major gap in the narrative relating to a river development project and its impact on
Physics
When neutrinos switch type
Women in politics
Women power?
Women continue to be grossly under-represented in Parliament and the State Assemblies and even at the candidate level, underscoring the need for reser
Cover Story
The spectre of suicide
As rural Karnataka reels under an unprecedented wave of suicides by farmers, the State administration looks on, unwilling to address the reasons that
Books
Blurred boundaries
The book is a comprehensive analysis of the cross-cultural encounters between the countries of Asia and the mutual influences.
Higher Education
Decline and fall of Tamil Nadu
Uncontrolled expansion of self-financing engineering colleges, absence of competent teachers in most of them, and the deplorable quality of school edu
Letter from America
Republican machismo vs Hillary Clinton
The 17 Republican presidential candidates’ drift into rhetoric on television and the U.S. elite’s condescension towards Democratic aspirant Bernie S
Essay
Two flags, one State
By allying himself with the BJP, Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed has betrayed the ideals for which Kashmiris fought the Dogras.
Public health
Ebola vaccine offers hope
Andhra Pradesh
Capital punishment
Land acquisition for Andhra Pradesh’s proposed capital leaves farmers and landowners at their wits’ end.
West Bengal
Murder on college campus
Prohibition
The Uvari model
FTII, Pune
Students firm on Chauhan’s removal
Japan
Aesthetics of impermanence
Media
Threat to free speech
The show-cause notices issued to three television news channels by the Information and Broadcasting Ministry put the spotlight on the inherent potenti
Farmers' debt
Creditor’s noose
The State government’s drive against usurious moneylenders is bound to fail because it is not backed by any effort to reach institutional credit to fa
Farmers' Rally
Rally for justice
The AIKS brings together in a rally in New Delhi the family members of farmers who committed suicide in 12 States.
Sugarcane growers
Fatal attraction
The prospect of good returns lures farmers into growing sugarcane, but the harvest turns bitter when factories, most of them politically connected, de
Interview: CRDA Commissioner
‘The government’s priority is to protect agricultural lands’
Interview with Srikant Nagulapalli, Commissioner, Andhra Pradesh Capital Region Development Authority.
Prohibition
New momentum
Sustained protests in a village for the removal of a liquor shop and the death of a crusader against alcohol consumption there provide new energy to t
Interview: Hannan Mollah
‘Governments are in denial’
Interview with Hannan Mollah, general secretary of the All India Kisan Sabha.
Interview: Krishna Byre Gowda
‘We are reaching out to farmers’
Interview with Agriculture Minister Krishna Byre Gowda.
Interview: Vaiko
‘We need total prohibition’
Sasi Perumal
One man’s crusade
Interview: Prof. B.V. Sreekantan
The quest for ultimate reality
Interview with Prof. B.V. Sreekantan, cosmic ray physicist and astronomer.
Reports from the States
Areas of darkness
Interview: Prof. V. Rhymend Uthariaraj
Making successful engineers
Interview: Prakash Kammardi
‘The predictability of incomes in agriculture has collapsed’
Interview with Dr T.N. Prakash Kammardi, Chairman, Karnataka Agriculture Prices Commission.
Turkey & Syria
Playing with fire
Turkey openly enters the fray as the U.S.’ ally in its indirect fight against the Syrian government by convincing the West that jehadists groups such
India & Bangladesh
Stranded no more
On August 1, more than 51,000 stateless residents in enclaves in India and Bangladesh became citizens of the respective countries after nearly seven
Books
A real wonderland
The book contains a series of essays on the wildlife in the different landscapes of the Western Ghats and highlights the major conservation challenges
Afghanistan
End of a chapter
Peace talks between the Afghan government and the dominant faction of the Taliban may take a hit with the Taliban confirming that its reclusive leader
Bangladesh
Endangered bloggers
Niladri Chatterjee Niloy becomes the fourth online activist to be targeted this year by religious extremists.
Preoccupations
The poverty alleviation way to development
Letters
Letters to the Editor
Ladakh
Despair and hope on the Roof of the World
Ladakh is a vast, wondrous land —its enormous plateaus and lofty mountains traversed by rivers such as the mighty Indus and the Zanskar; its high-alti
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Did Periyar call for a genocide of Brahmins?
‘Enlightenment’: A Marathi story in translation
Close encounters with the third kind
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SBI’s reluctance to reveal electoral bond data raises concerns about its independence and reliability
Essays by Prabir Purkayastha: Defending reason with passion
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