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Cover story on JNU and special feature on gravitational-waves
In this issue
18-03-2016
40 STORIES
Preoccupations
Techno-fascism in the 21st century
What is happening in India at present finds unfortunate echoes in other parts of the world.
Lead Story
Guidelines flouted
Lead Story
‘Tactical diversion of public attention’
Interview with Anand Sharma, Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha.
Lead Story
‘My admission was a miracle, possible only in JNU’
Reservation
Caste calculations
The Jat agitation blows up in the Haryana government’s face, bringing the issue of reservation back into focus and widening the divide between variou
Gravitational waves
A vision vindicated
The LIGO-India project, which has been approved by the Union Cabinet, was a vision of the IndIGO Consortium, a multi-institutional multidisciplinary c
Internet
Winning round one
The TRAI fires the first salvo in favour of protecting Net neutrality, but the battle to keep the Internet free from control by commercial interests r
Interview: Sitaram Yechury
‘Launch of an insurrection against the Constitution’
Interview with Sitaram Yechury, CPI(M) general secretary.
India
‘Consumer ambitions must not override citizen rights’
Interview with Nishant Shah, co-founder of the Centre for Internet and Society, Bengaluru.
Harper Lee
Fractured legacy
Harper Lee (1926-2016), the author of To Kill a Mockingbird, will never be forgotten as long as there are people who love the magic of the written wo
Terrorism
Reconnaissance man
David Headley, the LeT operative, does not reveal anything new in his video deposition from the United States in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks case
Heritage
The embroiders of Kutch
The Living and Learning Design Centre in a Kutch village is about dialogue between contemporary designers and traditional artisans and about keeping c
Syria
Peace a far cry still
The “cessation of hostilities” agreement announced seems to be mainly aimed at facilitating speedy delivery of essential humanitarian aid to areas in
Law on sedition
Sedition vs free speech
Recent instances of the law enforcers’ recourse to the law on sedition point to its inherent potential for abuse.
ONV Kurup
Shimmering drops of light
O.N.V. Kurup (1931-2016) wrote poetry from the heart, inspired by the grind, sorrows and joys of ordinary people, their simple songs and their hopes f
South Africa
Caught in neoliberal trap
Charges of corruption, cronyism and nepotism against President Jacob Zuma have put the government on the back foot in a country already reeling under
Background
Profiles, real and concocted
Coming mostly from impoverished backgrounds and marginalised communities, the implicated JNU students have one other thing in common: passion to uphol
Nationalism redefined
The new nationalism
Nationhood under the BJP government, conflated with Hinduism, is defined more by what it excludes than what it includes. Anything that this regimented
Gravitational waves
The Indian role
Significant Indian contributions to theoretical source modelling and data analysis made the LIGO discovery of September 2015 possible.
Educational institutions
Eroding autonomy
The control of the government at the Centre over autonomous institutions such as Central universities undermines academic and administrative freedom.
The United States
The world after Obama
Barack Obama was caught between the “good war” and the “bad war”, but not all the presidential candidates who are in the race to succeed him share his
University and pluralism
The idea of the university and its enemies
Why does the university matter? It matters because in the present state of affairs the university represents the idea of pluralism, an inclusive appro
The agenda
An old dream and a new horse to flog
The rhetoric of nationalism is being used by the ruling dispensation to deflect attention from pressing problems and to chase the Sangh Parivar’s old
Books
Battle for narrative
A portal working towards establishing an informed Ambedkar age makes an impressive debut.
Lead Story
Ripples in Jadavpur
Gravitational waves
The whisper of a black hole
Building a laser interferometer with the enormous sensitivity required to "hear" faraway black holes colliding was the result of a continuou
Books
Free speech and India
Interview with Gautam Bhatia, advocate in the High Court of Delhi.
Bikramaditya K. Choudhary, Secretary, JNUTA
‘JNU administration making deplorable statements’
Interview with Bikramaditya K. Choudhary, Secretary, JNUTA.
Ambiguities in law
A case against the sedition law
The Supreme Court missed an opportunity to clear the ambiguity in Section 124A of the IPC, the law of sedition, in the Kedar Nath Singh case. It is hi
Gravitational waves
Ripples from the past
The first detection of the sounds of the cosmos may be the harbinger of more such signals, which may tell us new things about the universe.
Books
A new perspective
The book is a comprehensive and substantial contribution to an understanding of the West Asian political and economic scenario and the historical and
Gravitational waves
New cosmic messengers
The gravitational waves detected by the LIGO observatories in the United States on September 14, 2015, while validating Einstein’s theory of general r
Essay
Politics and AMU
On how the university got enmeshed in political battles with communal overtones.
Letters
Letters to the Editor
Cover Story
In defence of JNU
The crackdown on Jawaharlal Nehru University and the aggressive campaign with focus on its “anti-national character” is part of a Sangh Parivar plan t
Interview: Shehla Rashid Shora
‘Politics enriches our education’
Interview with Shehla Rashid Shora, vice-president, JNUSU.
Hindutva and nationhood
The nation according to Hindutva
An astonishing new generation is coming up from subaltern ranks, gathering some of its intellectual and political resources from leading public univer
In first person
JNU: Republic of ideas
The government’s attempt to crush the JNU spirit, which is reminiscent of the dark days of the Emergency, is in line with the RSS’ antipathy to the un
Wildlife
Brown bear, red salmon
Brown bears are one of the eight species of bears found in Eurasia, North America, Canada and parts of Asia.
University system
University matters
Higher education has been growing from strength to strength in recent years, with State public and private universities dominating the scene.
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