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30-10-201534 STORIES

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C.P. Chandrasekhar

Interesting turnaround

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The question of learning

Letters to the Editor

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The vigilante is watching

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‘A trapeze act by the Law Commission’

Interview with the eminent jurist Mohan Gopal.

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Interview: D.N. Jha, historian

‘The cow was neither unslayable nor sacred in the Vedic period’

Interview with D.N. Jha, the historian of ancient and medieval India and the author of Holy Cow: Beef in Indian Dietary Traditions and The Myth of th

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Modi in Facebookland

Narendra Modi draws Indian Americans in large numbers, but diverse people also got together to put on record their frustration with his government.

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What the law says

Legal farce

Article 48 is a handy tool to cloak and pursue the majoritarian agenda by the state. It requires deft reasoning by the judiciary to lift the veil and

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Keeping a tradition alive

A small but dedicated community of performers continues to enthrall audiences by performing the centuries-old ritual art form of Kaniyan Koothu in sou

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Time for introspection

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Buddhism in Japan

March of Buddhism in Japan

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Shiv Sena stops Ghulam Ali concert

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From the States

Matter of choice

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Interview: Nilanjana Roy

‘People will reject Hindu nationalist vision for India’

Interview with Nilanjana S. Roy, literary critic.

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Interview: Akhilesh Yadav

‘Silence and inaction is a way of encouraging communal bigots’

Interview with Akhilesh Yadav, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister.

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Russia in action

Russia’s intervention in Syria is a possible game changer. President Assad has said that the military campaign by Syria, Russia and their allies is vi

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Height of hypocrisy

A ban on beef is being debated at a time when beef is the food item that earns the largest export revenue for the country.

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Himalayan challenge

The promulgation of the new Constitution leaves half of Nepal in tumultuous protest, with large sections of the population feeling it is not inclusive

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Bar vs bench

The confrontation between the Bar and the bench in Tamil Nadu has reached a flashpoint with the Bar Council of India suspending the licences of 14 adv

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Bihar Assembly elections

No holds barred

Multiple factors impart a distinctively unpredictable character to the 2015 Assembly elections in Bihar.

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Elephant story

The insights and information provided in the book are of immense value in understanding the Asiatic elephant better and in planning conservation strat

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State and inequality

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Role of the revolutionaries

The story of the intersection between the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association, the Congress, and the British government in India’s movement fo

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The making of Astrosat

Interview with M. Annadurai, Director, ISRO Satellite Centre, Bengaluru.

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Storm in a tea garden

A spontaneous agitation by a collective of women labourers has thrown Kerala’s plantation sector into disarray, caught its male-dominated trade unions

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Debate on Islam

Myth and reality

The debate on Islam has been reduced to carping about Islamophobia. This not only alienates people whose support Muslims need to fight real Islamophob

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Volkswagen shock

Arvind Thiruvengadam, research assistant professor at West Virginia University, speaks on the emission scandal.

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Report from Dadri

Hate culture

The lynching at Dadri came after months of concerted attempts at communal polarisation.

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Interview: Nayantara Sahgal

Iron curtain on freedom of thought

Interview with Nayantara Sahgal, writer and columnist.

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Cover Story: Dadri Lynching

The lynch mob

The Dadri lynching is only one of the systematic ploys the Sangh Parivar is employing to wrest geographical, social and cultural control of the countr

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A failure ordained

In 1960, India lost a chance to settle the border disagreement with China. China’s position has since hardened, and the concessions that Zhou Enlai wa

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Growing forest cover

India’s forest cover has been steadily growing in recent years, with a steep rise in the extent of very dense forests, but the loss of over 20,000 sq

Germany refuses to sign treaty

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Saudi stampede

Saudi Arabia, which has already been criticised for the brutal bombing of Yemen, comes under increasing pressure from various nations and organisation

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