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Nitish Kumar and Lalu Prasad
In this issue
27-11-2015
47 STORIES
Sashi Kumar
Reading the snapshots
Books
Guns and roses
The book seeks to portray a little-known side of the armed forces, as the preserver of nature.
Agriculture
Three foci of rice domestication
Archaeology
Discovering & deciphering rock art
India has about 5,000 rock art sites, next only to Australia and South Africa, where prehistoric people have recorded life as they saw it, in painting
Anandamangalam
Jain vestiges
The Jain ruins of Anandamangalam in Tamil Nadu, though small in size, have sufficient details to merit close attention.
Talking to Nitish Kumar
Nitish Kumar’s agenda
Kerala elections
Thumping victory
The Left Democratic Front romps home in the Kerala local body elections under a united leadership, running a successful campaign against a discredited
Lead Story
The EBC factor
Books
The good-boy, bad-boy tales
An insightful study of children’s literature produced in colonial Bengal and of Bengali primers written for the early generations of schoolchildren.
Turkey
Turkish gambit
Turkey’s decision to launch air attacks on the Kurdistan Workers Party’s bases is widely viewed as an extremely dangerous move that will further compl
Interview: Lalu Prasad
‘Modi has been exposed thoroughly’
Interview with Lalu Prasad.
Interview: Brinda Karat
‘Modi has been dealt a severe blow’
Interview with Brinda Karat, Polit Bureau member of the CPI(M).
West Asia
Another Intifada?
Occupied Palestinian territories are in turmoil as right-wing Jewish zealots persuade the Benjamin Netanyahu government to place further restrictions
Events
Scramble for Africa
India follows the West’s lead in trying to dip a deep finger in the African pie, but China is still far ahead in the race for resources in the contine
Canada
Sunny win
Canada witnesses its “Obama moment” as the Liberals, with their sunny campaign, win a clear majority in a “strategic” vote for change.
Interview: Rajnath Singh
‘Things have gone terribly wrong’
Interview with Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh.
Books
Sweet and harmless
A biography that slips into hagiography, though its subject, Hrishikesh Mukherjee, continues to stand out as a master of film technique.
Punjab
Season of discontent
Kolleru lake
A looming tragedy
The Andhra Pradesh government’s latest move to reduce the size of the protected area of the Kolleru lake may just be the death knell for this Ramsar s
Interview: Dr Pushpa Mittra Bhargava
‘Government is abandoning road to democracy’
Interview with the scientist Dr Pushpa Mittra Bhargava.
Interview: Rahman Abbas
‘Collective protest of Indian writers has made history’
Controversy
A film axed
A documentary film on the beef-eating practices in Mumbai is denied permission for screening in what is seen an extension of the saffron agenda to cen
Region-wise analysis
Pro-incumbency wave
The judiciary
For greater scrutiny
When most legal issues are essentially political issues, judges no longer perform their conventional duties. Hence, the media need to critique the jud
Haryana
Burnt alive
Spotlight
Diet and diktat
Extremist and ill-informed political positions of the Sangh Parivar with regard to cow slaughter and extreme vegetarianism not only alienate the minor
Media
Award for journalist
Tamil Nadu
Folk singer arrested on sedition charge
Higher Education
Education as commodity
The Indian government’s policy to treat education as a commodity rather than as a social need sparks students’ agitation in Delhi with support from se
Crime
Prize catch
The intelligence apparatus hopes the arrest of Chhota Rajan will lead to information that helps bring Dawood Ibrahim to book, but many people feel tha
Cuba
U.N. condemns blockade
Maldives
Death of a fledgling democracy
Nobel Prize
Parasite busters
The 2015 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine has been shared by William C. Campbell of the U.S., Satoshi Omura of Japan, and Youyou Tu of China for
West Bengal
From jail to home-stay for Madan Mitra
Issues in Focus
In denial mode
More and more eminent persons join the protests as the Narendra Modi government refuses to acknowledge the growing tide of intolerance on the ground,
Physics
When a balloon pops
Bihar Assembly Elections
Grand sweep
Bihar rejects the Narendra Modi-led National Democratic Alliance’s divisive politics and anti-people policies and votes to power the Grand Alliance, g
Essay
Ambedkar & Periyar: On the same page
Ambedkar and Periyar were at the forefront of social movements that challenged the deeply entrenched caste system.
Essay
Hindutva’s stick
Hindutva groups use the idea of a uniform civil code as a stick to beat the minorities with, an enterprise that finds an answering echo in judicial ze
Bird migration
Flying with bald ibises
The climate in Tuscany is congenial for the birds.
Tribute
Hashim Abdul Halim: Legendary Speaker
One unique aspect that set Hashim Abdul Halim (1935-2015) apart from his contemporaries was the universal respect he commanded cutting across politica
Indian youth
Young India
India has the highest number of young people in the world and is in the best position to realise a demographic dividend, provided proper policies are
Letters
Letters to the Editor
Astronomy
Astrosat telescope sees first light
Physics
On the edge of stability
Statement by historians
Statement made by historians
Archive
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Caught in a saffron storm
Viral fever: The curious spectacle of campaign films
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Tastes of the earth
Did Periyar call for a genocide of Brahmins?
‘Enlightenment’: A Marathi story in translation
Close encounters with the third kind
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Farewell Appappan
Why a proposed private port in Karnataka’s Honnavara faces stiff resistance from fisherfolk
India’s oscillating opposition and the dynamic evolution of protest politics
The crisis of the secular opposition
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22-03-2024
Why the tiger-human conflict rages in Bandipur and Nagarahole
Minimum Support Price: A question of how, not why
Fali S. Nariman (1929-2024): A life dedicated to the Constitution’s promise
Farmers’ protest: It’s a battle against servitude
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