Cover Budget 16

Promises as policy

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01-04-201643 STORIES

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Watch trouble

Editorial: An Opportunity Missed

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Music from the margins

When T.M. Krishna, the “enfant terrible” of Carnatic music, and five Jogappas, belonging to a traditional community of transwomen musicians in rural K

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Great Barrier Reef

Splendour down under

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Seeds of distress

Arun Jaitley’s latest budget, which refuses to address issues such as the crisis of profitability or paucity of state credit, fails to make any effort

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Digital imagery

Journey into silence

N. Srinivasan’s artistic trajectory originates in the matrix of tradition, transits through digital imagery and arrives at the contemplation of silenc

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Man of the masses

Purno Agitok Sangma was a towering political personality of Meghalaya whose term as Speaker of the Lok Sabha was unforgettable.

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‘Stop this media trial’

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Tapan Sen, general secretary, CITU

‘Burden on honest taxpayers’

Interview with Tapan Sen, general secretary, CITU.

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Virjesh Upadhyay, BMS.

‘Much depends on agriculture’

Interview with Virjesh Upadhyay, national general secretary, BMS.

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Job scheme in decline

The increase in the budgetary allocation for the MGNREGA is only marginal. The scheme helped lower the poverty level by 32 per cent between 2004-05 an

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Banks on the run

By refusing to make a significant commitment to recapitalise public sector banks, the government refuses to accept its own responsibility in causing t

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Employees' Provident Fund

Double whammy

Widespread opposition to the proposal to tax withdrawals from Employees’ Provident Fund puts the government on the back foot.

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Dissecting an age-old rivalry

The author Dilip Hiro speaks about his latest book, The Longest August: The Unflinching Rivalry Between India and Pakistan.

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Museveni forever

Yoweri Museveni, the U.S.’ key partner in Afica, is re-elected President of Uganda in an election that is widely seen as fraudulent.

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Refracted views

The book does not give priority to fundamental and critical issues relevant to policymaking in India.

Is health insurance another “jumla”?

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The story of Aamir Khan

A heart-wrenching story of a Muslim youth who is incarcerated on false charges and an indictment of the criminal justice system.

Minorities feel short-changed

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Geelani’s travails

S.A.R. Geelani’s arrest shows that the Centre is using any event commemorating Afzal Guru as a bogey to oppose any discussion on the Kashmiri people’s

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Off the rails

By adopting a niggardly approach to capital investment, the Railway Budget missed an opportunity to provide a stimulus to the overall economy.

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Turning up trumps

Donald Trump is the outcome of Nixon’s Southern Strategy, the anti-immigrant sentiment in the party, and the deep wells of Islamophobia that have been

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Between investors and voters

The stark divergence between rhetoric and intent in the Budget exposes the regime’s inability to push for growth and welfare, which stems from its obs

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Interpreter of cultures

In Umberto Eco’s (1934-2016) death, the world has lost a semiotician who blended scholarship with pop iconography, an intellectual who believed in pro

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Cosmetic measures

The Union Budget uses a silo-based approach to health in complete disregard for what its own reports and data point out in terms of what is required f

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Electoral ploy

The “pro-farmer, pro-rural tilt” of the Union Budget is aimed at enhancing popular support for the BJP and its NDA allies in an election year. Left pa

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Union Budget 2016-17

The great deception

By launching a frontal attack on several major sections of society, Union Budget 2016-17 probably marks a turning point in the way the Narendra Modi

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Economic Survey 2015-16

Sophisticated neoliberalism

Economic Survey 2015-16 covers vast ground but its premises are essentially neoliberal, marked by an overwhelming focus on fiscal consolidation and an

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Partial vision

At a time when the basic structure of the education system, right from the primary school to the higher education level, needs a significant budgetary

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‘Why do people have to eat only arhar dal’?

Interview with G.V.L. Narasimha Rao, BJP’s chief spokesperson.

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Encounters with truth

The Ishrat Jahan case assumes political overtones with new twists and turns in the case of the controversial “encounter killing” by the Gujarat Police

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Culture Festival

Against all norms

The World Culture Festival organised by the Art of Living Foundation on the floodplains of the Yamuna flouts environmental concerns and established ru

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Pop patriot

Manoj Kumar, the latest recipient of the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, was a smart man who tapped into the patriotic spirit of the average Indian to achieve

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In A.P. red sanders case, 288 Tamils acquitted

Beating the law

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Law and limitations

With domestic violence cases on the rise, the debate has now intensified over whether the victim needs pre-litigation counselling or aggressive court

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Strategic prize

The West’s attempt to effect a regime change in Syria using tactics from 60 years ago has not borne fruit, and the majority of the people seem to have

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Assembly okays takeover of Dunlop, Jessop

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Leading the debate

JNU students vow to intensify the struggle for their constitutional and democratic right to criticise the government’s anti-people policies.

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Anti-national economics

Letters to the Editor

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Interview: Kanhaiya Kumar

‘To save syncretic culture’

Interview with Kanhaiya Kumar.

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Public finances

Money matters

The combined revenue of the Centre and the States has not grown at the same pace as expenditure in recent years, leaving a widening gap in public fina

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