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Nitish Kumar and Lalu Prasad

In this issue

27-11-201546 STORIES

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Reading the snapshots

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Guns and roses

The book seeks to portray a little-known side of the armed forces, as the preserver of nature.

Three foci of rice domestication

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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

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Ambedkar & Periyar: On the same page

Ambedkar and Periyar were at the forefront of social movements that challenged the deeply entrenched caste system.

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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

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Interview: Brinda Karat

‘Modi has been dealt a severe blow’

Interview with Brinda Karat, Polit Bureau member of the CPI(M).

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Another Intifada?

Occupied Palestinian territories are in turmoil as right-wing Jewish zealots persuade the Benjamin Netanyahu government to place further restrictions

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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

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Sunny win

Canada witnesses its “Obama moment” as the Liberals, with their sunny campaign, win a clear majority in a “strategic” vote for change.

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Interview: Rajnath Singh

‘Things have gone terribly wrong’

Interview with Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh.

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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

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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

The EBC factor

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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.

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Flying with bald ibises

The climate in Tuscany is congenial for the birds.

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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

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Sweet and harmless

A biography that slips into hagiography, though its subject, Hrishikesh Mukherjee, continues to stand out as a master of film technique.

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Season of discontent

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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

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Interview: Dr Pushpa Mittra Bhargava

‘Government is abandoning road to democracy’

Interview with the scientist Dr Pushpa Mittra Bhargava.

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Interview: Rahman Abbas

‘Collective protest of Indian writers has made history’

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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

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Region-wise analysis

Pro-incumbency wave

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

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Burnt alive

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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

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Award for journalist

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Folk singer arrested on sedition charge

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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

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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

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U.N. condemns blockade

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Death of a fledgling democracy

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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

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From jail to home-stay for Madan Mitra

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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,

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When a balloon pops

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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

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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.

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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 to the Editor

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Astrosat telescope sees first light

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On the edge of stability

Statement by historians

Statement made by historians

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