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Mukesh Ambani
In this issue
30-09-2016
40 STORIES
C.P. Chandrasekhar
Battle against Apple and other giants
Jammu & Kashmir
Bankruptcy of policy
The alienation of the Kashmiri people has already reached a point of no return, but politicians continue to mouth platitudes and try to hide the hollo
Letters
Letters to the Editor
Gujarat
Embroiderers of Kutch lose their 'Kaki'
Big business
Business & politics
The Prime Minister’s endorsement of the Ambani group’s new digital product ends speculation of the supposed distancing between Narendra Modi and Relia
Reliance and telecom
Second coming
In the euphoria that has surrounded the Reliance Jio launch, Mukesh Ambani’s previous launch of mobile services 14 years ago provides some sobering th
Bangladesh
Course of justice
Pakistan’s statement criticising the hanging of the war crimes convict Mir Quasem Ali does not go down well in Bangladesh.
Books
Liberalism and its malcontents
A book that will have a long-term bearing on contemporary political thought and the history of the “empire”.
Fiction
Two different estimates
Politics
‘Bhakti cult’
Cover Story
Voice of Reliance
Reliance Industries unleashes a full-scale war in the mobile business by blurring the divide between voice and data. But its entry as a harbinger of r
Heritage
Prehistoric period
Ishti
Fight against patriarchy
G. Prabha’s Sanskrit film Ishti pits the feminine spirit against patriarchy while weaving a riveting tale of transformation within the Namboodiri comm
Controversy
Disquiet in the Ghats
With the time frame for stakeholders to submit complaints and suggestions over the declaration of ecologically sensitive areas in the Western Ghats ne
Land acquisition
Farmers’ victory
The Supreme Court’s ruling that the land acquired in Singur for the Nano car project must be returned to farmers has come as a huge victory for Chief
Interview
‘We cannot merely go in for compartmentalised solutions’
Interview with Union Minister Anil Madhav Dave.
Literature
Restrained, yet rich
Maharashtra
Yoga made compulsory
Uttarakhand
Paying the price
For the first time, a company in India will have to pay compensation for damage occurring during a natural disaster: the NGT imposes a fine on GVK for
Turkey-Syria
Turkish onslaught
Turkey’s open military intervention in Syria, with the United States’ backing, evokes sharp condemnation from Russia and Iran, Syria’s allies in its
The Judiciary
Note of dissent
The history of the collegium is replete with instances of successive CJIs using their clout to suppress dissent and presenting to the outside world a
The Judiciary
Collegium concerns
Justice Jasti Chelameswar’s decision to keep away from the meetings of the Supreme Court’s collegium as a protest against its opaque functioning lends
Spectrum auction
Spectrum grab
The conduct of the spectrum auction, which was won by Reliance Jio for its services, raises disturbing questions about whether state policy is availab
Interview: Prashant Bhushan
‘The spectrum auction was rigged’
Interview with Prashant Bhushan, political activist and lawyer.
West Bengal
Bangla, Bengal and Bangal
Spotlight
A museum for the master
R.K. Narayan’s house in Mysuru has been made into a museum, but the execution seems half-hearted. Much more needs to be done if it is to attract the g
Interview: V.A.N. Namboodiri
‘We are victims of a legacy set up by the government’
Interview with V.A.N. Namboodiri of BSNL Employees Union.
Labour Issues
Striking at apathy
The central trade unions organise a national strike to press for their charter of demands aimed at keeping workers in the protective ambit of labour l
Archaeology
Suabarei surprise
The ASI discovers a separate Neolithic phase for the first time in Odisha’s prehistory, followed by a clear-cut Chalcolithic horizon, in its excavatio
Books
RBI in perspective
The book opens up the windows of the Reserve Bank of India to the wider public to enable it to understand the working of a public institution that has
Tamil Nadu
Strained democracy
The manner in which the Jayalalithaa government has filed defamation cases against political opponents and the media and gone about muffling dissent
Essay
Vajpayee’s ‘insaniyat’
Vajpayee’s use of the slogan was of a piece with his evasion of specifics and was not informed by any real intent of conciliation.
Books
Truer than facts
Kiran Doshi takes an important period of modern India’s history and fictionalises it to make it more intelligible and plausible.
Technology
Tall claims?
Although the data plan rates Reliance Jio is offering seem extremely low and attractive, a closer look at them suggests that the reality does not matc
Brazil
A soft coup
Right-wing opposition forces have succeeded in ousting President Dilma Rousseff on dubious grounds and are in the process of making changes in the cou
Letter from America
Syrian file
Caught between Turkey’s demands and Kurdish ambitions, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has an impossible mission in Syria in which he is both the p
Jayati Ghosh
To skill & be skilled
Communalism
Coastal Karnataka: Communal cauldron
The steady growth of Hindutva in coastal Karnataka has been accompanied by intense communal polarisation. In this developed region of the State, incid
Attack on journalists
Press under attack
Journalists continue to be the target of murder and imprisonment worldwide, which does not augur well for the health of democratic values.
Public health
The six-legged enemy
Malaria control in India is seriously affected by the fact that the knowledge once gained through painstaking research and fieldwork by entomologists
P.K. Rajagopalan
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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
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‘In the Shadow’: An Odia story in translation
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