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Jayalalithaa and Mamata on the cover
In this issue
10-06-2016
45 STORIES
Letters
Letters to the Editor
Awards
Special prize
Medicine
Cancer drug for brain disorder?
Arts & Culture
Shakespeare on Indian screen
Earth Sciences
Extreme rainfall & erosion
Astronomy
Hubble & Bubble Nebula
Assembly Elections: Puducherry
Consolation prize
Column
Collapsing exports
Thol. Thirumavalavan, VCK leader
‘Our front faced many conspiracies’
Interview with Thol. Thirumavalavan, VCK leader.
Books
Detention without trial
The book is an outstandingly able study of preventive detention the like of which has not appeared in India.
Column
Tales of contrast
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
Digvijay Singh
‘There is no cause for panic’
Interview with Digvijay Singh of the Congress.
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
Interview: Goutam Ghose
Inimitable storyteller
Interview with film-maker Goutam Ghose, currently working on Lala, an Indo-Italian venture.
Nepal
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
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.
Sitaram Yechury, CPI(M) general secretary
‘People’s struggles must be strengthened’
Interview with Sitaram Yechury, CPI(M) general secretary.
World Affairs
Islamist threat
Sarbanada Sonowal
Son of the soil
Books
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
Drought
In unequal measure
As Karnataka reels under a severe drought, social and economic divides undermine the little relief that the government has provided.
Bangladesh
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
Cover Story
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
LEGEND
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
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
Books
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
Om Prakash Mishra, Congress leader
‘Congress-Left cooperation will continue’
Interview with Om Prakash Mishra of the Congress.
Uttarakhand
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
Arts & Culture
‘The Tempest’ in Tamil
Assembly Elections: Tamil Nadu
Bucking the trend
Jayalalithaa makes history by returning to power for a second consecutive time in Tamil Nadu.
Pinarayi Vijayan
Man of the moment
Money trail
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
Supreme Court
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.
Opinion polls
The prediction industry
Wildlife
In the king’s own country
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.
Profile
The Mamata persona
Crime
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
Books
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
Vinay Sahasrabudhe, BJP vice president
‘People voted for our development agenda’
Interview with BJP vice president Vinay Sahasrabudhe.
Column
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
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
Egypt
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
Spotlight
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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08-09-2023
Meira Paibis: How Manipur’s peace-keepers became agents provocateur
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No getting past the present: Review of ‘History’s Angel’ by Anjum Hasan
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25-08-2023
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Rajasthan’s gig law a step in the right direction, but more needed to protect platform workers
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