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The Una incident and its backlash in Gujarat

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02-09-201637 STORIES

Mastery over the form

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Seventy and surviving

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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

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Kokrajhar bleeds again

Suspected Bodo militants strike in Assam for the first time after the BJP government took over earlier in the year.

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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

Response [Jute industry ]

Letters to the Editor

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Media made to order

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Interview: Nabaneeta Dev Sen

Mahasweta Devi: ‘Different from us all’

Interview with novelist Nabaneeta Dev Sen.

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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

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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.

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An exit and interesting possibilities

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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

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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.

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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.

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For a taste of Krakow

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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

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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,

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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

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Round one to Centre

The Delhi High Court rules against the Aam Aadmi Party government in a dispute over the extent of its powers.

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A killer tax

The euphoria over the Goods and Services Tax masks the deadly assault on tax policy as a means of promoting equity.

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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

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Vigil and violence

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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

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Interview: P.L. Punia

‘Protests by Dalits a good sign’

Interview with P.L. Punia, Chairperson, National Commission for Scheduled Castes.

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‘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

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‘We can make the government fall’

Interview with Vivek Premi, district convener of the Bajrang Dal.

Journalists targeted

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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

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Rain havoc

A timely reminder of the tragedy that struck Uttarakhand in 2013 and what compounded a natural disaster and made it so serious.

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Desperation

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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

Tribunal blow

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Jinnah’s heirs

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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.

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‘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

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‘The cow is just a political animal’

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