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Promises as policy
In this issue
01-04-2016
43 STORIES
Karnataka
Watch trouble
Editorial
Editorial: An Opportunity Missed
Aikya concert
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
Great Barrier Reef
Splendour down under
Agriculture
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
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
P.A. Sangma
Man of the masses
Purno Agitok Sangma was a towering political personality of Meghalaya whose term as Speaker of the Lok Sabha was unforgettable.
India
‘Stop this media trial’
Tapan Sen, general secretary, CITU
‘Burden on honest taxpayers’
Interview with Tapan Sen, general secretary, CITU.
Virjesh Upadhyay, BMS.
‘Much depends on agriculture’
Interview with Virjesh Upadhyay, national general secretary, BMS.
MGNREGS
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
Banks
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
Employees' Provident Fund
Double whammy
Widespread opposition to the proposal to tax withdrawals from Employees’ Provident Fund puts the government on the back foot.
Books
Dissecting an age-old rivalry
The author Dilip Hiro speaks about his latest book, The Longest August: The Unflinching Rivalry Between India and Pakistan.
Uganda
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.
Books
Refracted views
The book does not give priority to fundamental and critical issues relevant to policymaking in India.
Lead Story
Is health insurance another “jumla”?
Books
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.
Lead Story
Minorities feel short-changed
Spotlight
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
Railway Budget
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.
United States
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
Analysis
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
Umberto Eco
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
Health
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
Politics
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
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
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
Education
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
Lead Story
‘Why do people have to eat only arhar dal’?
Interview with G.V.L. Narasimha Rao, BJP’s chief spokesperson.
Controversy
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
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
Awards
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
Tamil Nadu
In A.P. red sanders case, 288 Tamils acquitted
India
Beating the law
Gender Issues
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
Syria
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
West Bengal
Assembly okays takeover of Dunlop, Jessop
JNU
Leading the debate
JNU students vow to intensify the struggle for their constitutional and democratic right to criticise the government’s anti-people policies.
Preoccupations
Anti-national economics
Letters
Letters to the Editor
Interview: Kanhaiya Kumar
‘To save syncretic culture’
Interview with Kanhaiya Kumar.
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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