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The Una incident and its backlash in Gujarat
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02-09-2016
37 STORIES
Literature
Mastery over the form
Jayati Ghosh
Seventy and surviving
Awards
Music for change
The Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation is honouring T.M. Krishna with its award this year in recognition of “his forceful commitment as artist and advoc
Terrorism
Kokrajhar bleeds again
Suspected Bodo militants strike in Assam for the first time after the BJP government took over earlier in the year.
Cover Story
Milking the holy cow
There is no way of producing milk profitably in a commercial venture if unproductive cows are retained. If one is serious about not killing cows, one
Letters
Response [Jute industry ]
Letters
Letters to the Editor
Unmediated
Media made to order
Interview: Nabaneeta Dev Sen
Mahasweta Devi: ‘Different from us all’
Interview with novelist Nabaneeta Dev Sen.
Poetry
Days of irreverence
Gnanakoothan’s (1938-2016) dissenting spirit not only opened up new landscapes of literature to aspiring young poets but also gave fresh meaning and f
Tribute
Mahasweta Devi: Beyond labels
Mahasweta Devi (1926-2016) was the voice of the subaltern. She remained a rebel and a free spirit right until the end.
Kerala
An exit and interesting possibilities
Art
From view to vision
S.H. Raza’s trajectory as an artist involved the transformation of a painter struggling to construct an image into a visionary lucidly revealing what
Yemen
Misadventure in Yemen
The Saudi-led coalition has been fighting a losing battle in Yemen, and Riyadh’s own economic problems make a long-running war there unsustainable.
Letter from America
‘There will be a hawk in the White House’
Interview with Medea Benjamin, one of the founders of CODEPINK, a U.S.-based anti-war activist organisation.
Poland
For a taste of Krakow
Lead Story
Death of public reason
The continuing atrocities against Dalits, including the recent one in Una, Gujarat, and the lack of public outrage are indicative of the death of a co
Public Health
A disaster in the making
Medecins Sans Frontieres warns that the free or regional trade agreements that are being negotiated, which seek to strengthen current patent regimes,
Lead Story
A case for lifting the ban
The ban on cattle slaughter is a story of missed opportunities for economic development and withdrawing it will have a salutary effect on farmer incom
Politics
Round one to Centre
The Delhi High Court rules against the Aam Aadmi Party government in a dispute over the extent of its powers.
Taxation
A killer tax
The euphoria over the Goods and Services Tax masks the deadly assault on tax policy as a means of promoting equity.
Livelihood Issues
A fight for their land
The mounting opposition to land acquisition for the Mallanasagar project, which threatens to submerge 14 villages, is turning out to be the first seri
Lead Story
Vigil and violence
Lead Story
Of ‘cowpathy’ & its miracles
Promotion of cow urine and dung as super drugs is part of the cow politics of the Sangh Parivar. Not only have these claims not been substantiated sci
Interview: P.L. Punia
‘Protests by Dalits a good sign’
Interview with P.L. Punia, Chairperson, National Commission for Scheduled Castes.
Lead Story
‘Mission Dalit’ gone awry
Attacks on Dalits in several parts of the country by vigilante gau rakshaks spoil the BJP’s carefully crafted plan to retain Dalit support for the for
Lead Story
‘We can make the government fall’
Interview with Vivek Premi, district convener of the Bajrang Dal.
Chhattisgarh
Journalists targeted
Kerala
Stories on walls
Kerala Murals offers a delectable feast of detailed descriptions of wall paintings in six temples and a palace in Kerala that are protected monuments
Uttarakhand
Rain havoc
A timely reminder of the tragedy that struck Uttarakhand in 2013 and what compounded a natural disaster and made it so serious.
Short story
Desperation
Arab world
The big picture
The author advances an argument about the slow political death of the idea of Arab nationalism in the fires of sectarian war and chaos that run from I
Karnataka
Tribunal blow
Pakistan
Jinnah’s heirs
Politics
Capital vendetta
The alacrity shown by the Delhi Police in arresting Aam Aadmi Party MLAs on flimsy charges smacks of a witch-hunt by the BJP regime.
Awards
‘The focus has to be on the safai karamchari women’
Interview with Bezwada Wilson, national convener of the Safai Karamchari Andolan and recipient of the Ramon Magsaysay Award for his work for manual sc
Interview
‘The cow is just a political animal’
Archive
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06-10-2023
A cry for help that goes unnoticed
Is ‘One Nation, One Election’ really feasible?
Namakkal: A Kota in the making?
Editor’s Note: Boycotting hate speech anchors not an attack on press freedom
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22-09-2023
‘The Dystopian Times’ by Appupen
‘A dumb buffalo speaks’: A Telugu story in translation
‘I escape back to control and home’: Review of ‘Borderlines’ by Manohar Shetty
Shadow pictures: Review of ‘The Secret of More’ by Tejaswini Apte-Rahm
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08-09-2023
Meira Paibis: How Manipur’s peace-keepers became agents provocateur
‘The Dystopian Times’ by Appupen
Labyrinth of mirrors: Review of ‘The House of Doors’ by Tan Twan Eng
No getting past the present: Review of ‘History’s Angel’ by Anjum Hasan
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25-08-2023
‘Mrinal Sen’s stark images transformed me’: Shoojit Sircar
Rajasthan’s gig law a step in the right direction, but more needed to protect platform workers
‘The Dystopian Times’ by Appupen
‘In the Shadow’: An Odia story in translation
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