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Horror behind bars

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08-01-201638 STORIES

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Letter from America

Receding pink tide?

In Latin America, electoral victories of the Right have shifted the balance of forces in the continent away from the Left.

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Shock and awe

Baluta, the first-ever autobiography by a Dalit, is a no-holds-barred narrative which reminds us that cruelty and oppression are still in our midst.

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Interview: Jerry Pinto

‘Baluta is an act of faith’

Interview with Jerry Pinto, the translator of “Baluta”.

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Disturbing reflections

“Kolkatar King” holds a mirror up to a society which has gone morally bankrupt, where agencies of the state are co-opted to maintain the status quo.

Limits to remission powers

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Muzzling criticism

Ananda Vikatan, a popular Tamil weekly, is the latest target of the series of defamation cases filed by the Tamil Nadu government, which has come in f

‘Natural disasters are part of standard covers’

Shocking revelations

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The Left in Pakistan

A scholarly book which tells the story of how the Left movement was seeded in Pakistan in the years after independence, the struggle of its early pion

Earthquake and after

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Of carcasses and compensation

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Changing tack

The Sangh Parivar dilutes its aggressive posturing of the past and takes nuanced positions to justify the Narendra Modi government’s new dialogue with

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Slugfest in Delhi

The CBI’s raids on Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s Principal Secretary sparks another round of hostility between leaders of the AAP and the BJP

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Disaster: Cuddalore

Unequal relief

In rain-ravaged Cuddalore district, allegations abound of relief and compensation reaching slowly in some places even as others seemingly received mor

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A diluted Bill

The Janlokpal Bill passed by the Delhi Assembly on December 3 fails to meet the goals of the 2011 anti-corruption movement and is a pale shadow of the

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On the pivot to East

By signing the nuclear and high-speed rail deals with Japan, India inches closer to the anti-China alliance led by the United States.

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Lifelong love for theatre

The inimitable S. Ramanujam was an inspirational figure who left an indelible mark on Tamil and Malayalam theatre.

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Political prisoners

Prisoners of conscience

What is happening in Chhattisgarh is a reflection of the brutal treatment that political prisoners face in India. The Chhattisgarh Police has been bre

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Interview: Arun Ferreira

‘The high walls keep out realities’

Interview with the social activist Arun Ferreira.

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Interview: Justice V.N. Sinha

‘Prison inspection can open a can of worms’

Interview with Justice V.N. Sinha, who commissioned the Bihar prison inspection.

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A businessman as Chancellor

The growing internal resentment against the Chancellor of the Maulana Azad National Urdu University is yet another testimony to the Modi regime’s clum

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Trial and errors

The actor Salman Khan’s acquittal in a 2002 hit-and-run case raises more questions than it answers.

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Yoginis as goddesses

The book attempts to formulate the Yogini cult in a multilayered way, taking into account multiple perspectives.

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Other side of the city

Even as Chennai recovers from the devastation wrought by the floods, sanitary workers cleaning up the city get a raw deal, exposing society’s bias tow

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Preventing infections from going viral

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Solitary confinement

The dreaded cell of Jundal

Abu Jundal, the suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba operative who is accused of masterminding the Mumbai terror attacks, is protesting against his solitary conf

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Masterly inactivity

The release of water from the Chembarambakkam reservoir and the havoc wreaked by the overflowing Adyar river in several localities along its banks in

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Communal bias

Prison administrations flout every rule in the book, especially when the prisoners happen to be from the minority community.

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Setback for Chavistas

Amid falling oil prices in a worsening economy and an “economic war” being waged by the private sector against the government, Venezuela’s United S

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Neglected reforms

Several committees have over the years made recommendations for improving the conditions in Indian prisons, but these remain unimplemented.

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A forgotten genocide

Millions of Communists were killed in a U.S.-backed pogrom in Indonesia 50 years ago, but the government continues to disallow discussions or film scr

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Horror behind bars

An exhaustive report based on inspection of Bihar’s 58 prisons tellingly brings to light the denial of the basic human rights of prisoners in the Sta

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A disaster for democracy

Letters to the Editor

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Sharad Joshi: Son of the soil

Sharad Anantrao Joshi (1935-2015) was an inspiring leader who never lost focus when it came to the welfare of farmers.

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Paris Agreement

How the West had its way

The story of the just-concluded COP-21 in Paris is one of clever manoeuvring by the U.S., both before and during the conference, false goals, and comp

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In first person

My view from an ‘anda’

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Crowding in prisons

Bursting at the seams

The prison establishment is characterised by overcrowding, uneven utilisation of annual budgets by States, and a shortage of prison staff at various l

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