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10-06-201645 STORIES

Letters to the Editor

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Special prize

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Cancer drug for brain disorder?

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Shakespeare on Indian screen

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Extreme rainfall & erosion

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Hubble & Bubble Nebula

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Assembly Elections: Puducherry

Consolation prize

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Collapsing exports

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Thol. Thirumavalavan, VCK leader

‘Our front faced many conspiracies’

Interview with Thol. Thirumavalavan, VCK leader.

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Detention without trial

The book is an outstandingly able study of preventive detention the like of which has not appeared in India.

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Tales of contrast

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Assembly Elections: West Bengal

Resounding victory

Mamata Banerjee returns to power with a massive mandate. The Trinamool Congress wins 211 out of the 294 Assembly seats, while the Left-Congress allian

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‘There is no cause for panic’

Interview with Digvijay Singh of the Congress.

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Assembly Elections: Kerala

Left gets it right

In a State that values its secular political traditions, voters rally behind the Left Democratic Front because of its consistent stand against divisiv

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Interview: Goutam Ghose

Inimitable storyteller

Interview with film-maker Goutam Ghose, currently working on Lala, an Indo-Italian venture.

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Awaiting Nepal’s second liberation

Nepal’s liberation from self-serving opportunistic politicians cannot even begin until the issue of federalism and justice to the Madheshis is dealt w

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Surjya Kanta Mishra, CPI(M)

‘Defeat does not mean retreat’

Interview with Surjya Kanta Mishra, Polit Bureau member of the CPI(M) and secretary of the party’s West Bengal unit.

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Sitaram Yechury, CPI(M) general secretary

‘People’s struggles must be strengthened’

Interview with Sitaram Yechury, CPI(M) general secretary.

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Islamist threat

Sarbanada Sonowal

Son of the soil

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Image and image-making

A close look at the often unseen and unacknowledged but thrillingly unpredictable processes that go into the making of magical images and sounds on sc

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In unequal measure

As Karnataka reels under a severe drought, social and economic divides undermine the little relief that the government has provided.

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Old wounds

Pakistan, which has never apologised for the crimes committed by its army personnel during the 1971 Bangladesh war, continues to oppose the trials tha

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Battles won and lost

Regional parties retain their importance in national politics as Mamata Banerjee and Jayalalithaa score back-to-back victories, the BJP and the Left g

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Living Shakespeare

London is agog with celebrations marking 400 years of William Shakespeare. The Globe’s adaptation of “Hamlet” returns for its final performances afte

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Letter from America

Stoking a fire

Donald Trump has awakened the class animosity of white workers, but real change is not possible through him. A Trump presidency would be dangerous not

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Poor left poorer

This book raises serious questions on the government’s development strategy of large-scale urbanisation without addressing, among other things, “the s

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Om Prakash Mishra, Congress leader

‘Congress-Left cooperation will continue’

Interview with Om Prakash Mishra of the Congress.

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Rawat’s return

The political drama in Uttarakhand comes to an end with the Harish Rawat government proving its majority in a floor test in the State Assembly after t

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‘The Tempest’ in Tamil

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Assembly Elections: Tamil Nadu

Bucking the trend

Jayalalithaa makes history by returning to power for a second consecutive time in Tamil Nadu.

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Pinarayi Vijayan

Man of the moment

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Money power unplugged

The Election Commission has put in place an elaborate mechanism, backed by law, to monitor and check the circulation of money to bribe voters, but it

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Defamation as crime

The judgment of the Supreme Court’s two-judge bench upholding defamation as a criminal offence is a setback to free speech jurisprudence.

The prediction industry

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In the king’s own country

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Assembly Elections: Assam

North-eastern foray

With its massive electoral victory in Assam, the BJP has made a big leap in the electoral politics of the north-eastern region.

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The Mamata persona

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Honour and shame

State Crime Records Bureau statistics show that Karnataka has had 13 “honour killings” since 2011, an indication of hardening social identities. There

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A security state

In all cases that touch on the twin issues of national security and civil liberty, the Supreme Court’s judgments are short on legal analysis and rich

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Vinay Sahasrabudhe, BJP vice president

‘People voted for our development agenda’

Interview with BJP vice president Vinay Sahasrabudhe.

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Topsy-turvy journalism

The Marxist concept of the free press, as enunciated forcefully and at length by Marx himself, is not to be confused with the vitiated role of a nomin

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The Philippines

Strongman at helm

The Philippines has elected a President who not only is a grass-roots politician but is also known for his anti-U.S. politics. Balancing ties between

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Restive nation

Cairo’s focus on crushing the Muslim Brotherhood has led to a massive crackdown on all forms of civil dissent, whose ramifications can be seen in a di

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Monsoon watch

Researchers of PIK, Germany, claim that their novel method, using the Eastern Ghats and north Pakistan as the “tipping elements”, is better in predict

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