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COVER STORY
04-03-2016
rural distress
Pic of farmers
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Briefing
West Bengal
Death sentence in gang-rape case
India
Media
Award for Frontline journalist
India
Interview: R.V. Deshpande
‘Focus is on realistic targets’
India
Interview with R.V. Deshpande, Karnataka Minister for Large and Medium Industries.
Interview: Yogendra Yadav
Distress and denial
Lead Story
Interview with Yogendra Yadav, leader of Swaraj Abhiyan.
Judicial intervention
Supreme Court steps in, again
Lead Story
The Supreme Court goads Central and State governments to respond to drought seriously.
Climate change
‘We need to be prepared to adjust to drier conditions’
Lead Story
Interview with Roxy Mathew Koll, scientist at the Centre for Climate Change Research.
Movements
Plachimada betrayed
India
The Centre and the State government of Kerala seem to be turning their backs on the people of Plachimada as the President denies assent to a Bill that
Arunachal Pradesh
A coup and its echo
Politics
The Governor’s role in dismissing the elected government and the imposition of President’s Rule in Arunachal Pradesh raise pertinent questions about C
Aihole
Gifts from the Chalukyas
Heritage
Gender Issues
Renewed hope
India
The Supreme Court’s decision to refer the curative petitions against its 2013 verdict re-criminalising consensual sex between two adults in private to
Assange
Whistle-blower’s victory
World Affairs
A U.N. panel’s ruling that Julian Assange’s confinement in the Ecuadorean embassy in London constitutes “arbitrary detention” deals a reputational bl
Controversy
Highly inflammable
India
Farmers in seven Tamil Nadu districts are up in arms against a natural gas pipeline that will run through agricultural land.
Letter from America
‘Feel the Bern’
World Affairs
Bernie Sanders has brought the idea of “socialism” back on to the table in American homes. His campaign has rejuvenated a politics that had fallen int
Dealing with distress
Political farce
Lead Story
The political posturing by parties only serves to hide their failure to come up with a tangible plan to address rural distress.
Railways
Risky route
India
The cost of land acquisition, loan repayment and subsidies could render the proposed bullet train project with Japanese cooperation a white elephant.
Astronomy
The most powerful supernova?
Science & Technology
Jammu & Kashmir
Hobson’s choice
Politics
Jammu and Kashmir waits for a functioning government as PDP leader Mehbooba Mufti continues to be in a dilemma over her party’s alliance with the BJP.
Invest Karnataka
Another jamboree
India
The recently concluded investor meet in Bangalore raises serious doubts about the efficacy of hosting such mega events to promote industrialisation.
Ornithology
New bird species
Science & Technology
From the States
Despair & death
Lead Story
Seismology
Small slips and big earthquakes
Science & Technology
Understanding insurgents
Books
The book portrays the intricate mechanics of insurgency, where the participants’ interests and stakes are varied.
Essay
AMU under assault
India
The Modi government’s reversal of the Union government’s stand on the Aligarh Muslim University not only perpetuates a grievous wrong but betrays a po
Gujarat
Anti-terror Bill fails again
India
Crop insurance
Insurance sop
Lead Story
The new crop insurance scheme introduced by the NDA government in an election year does not provide for a comprehensive coverage of all crops, against
Mathematics
Largest known prime number
Science & Technology
Interview: Radha Mohan Singh
‘Nothing to fear’
Lead Story
Interview with Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Radha Mohan Singh.
United States
Sticking to his guns
World Affairs
Barack Obama exerts his executive authority to address the growing gun violence in the United States as Congress fails to pass stringent laws to contr
A lifetime of service
Books
The book is a worthy tribute to a legendary IAS officer who devoted his life to the uplift of the poor and the marginalised in society.
Cover Story
Rural tragedy
Lead Story
Successive years of drought and crop failure across India’s landmass push rural society into distress and disharmony and government measures fall far
Malaysia
Yes, Prime Minister
World Affairs
Prime Minister Najib Razak’s hand-picked attorney general gives him a clean chit in the biggest corruption scandal to hit the country since independen
Theatre
The Zoukak mystique
Arts & Culture
A Lebanese theatre group engaging with the sociopolitical crises of its native land, which resonates with people’s movements everywhere, was the high
Beethoven
Musical expressions
Jayati Ghosh
Economic perspectives
The IMF in Pakistan
C.P. Chandrasekhar
Farming crisis
Rural distress
Data Stories
Successive droughts have imperilled the livelihoods of crores of farmers and agricultural workers in India.
Re-presenting intolerance
Sashi Kumar
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Feb 10, 2023
P. Sainath: ‘I wrote this book for the people in it’
Editor’s Note
Shah Rukh Khan: The new action hero on the block
Tapovan Vishnugad: NTPC project at the heart of Joshimath crisis
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Jan 13, 2023
Sri Lankan Tamil Hindus seek India’s support as Sinhala government targets temples
Aggressive Koreas leave peninsula tense
Sex, lies, and chicken curry
A chat over tikki
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Jan 27, 2023
The Great Land Grab in Jammu and Kashmir
Great Nicobar development projects disregard risk in earthquake-prone area
How the Serendipity Arts Festival celebrated the spirit of community
Pele (1940-2022): At his feet, football transformed into poetry
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