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Mukesh Ambani

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30-09-201640 STORIES

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C.P. Chandrasekhar

Battle against Apple and other giants

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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 to the Editor

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Embroiderers of Kutch lose their 'Kaki'

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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

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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

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Course of justice

Pakistan’s statement criticising the hanging of the war crimes convict Mir Quasem Ali does not go down well in Bangladesh.

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Liberalism and its malcontents

A book that will have a long-term bearing on contemporary political thought and the history of the “empire”.

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Two different estimates

‘Bhakti cult’

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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

Prehistoric period

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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

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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

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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

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‘We cannot merely go in for compartmentalised solutions’

Interview with Union Minister Anil Madhav Dave.

Restrained, yet rich

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Yoga made compulsory

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Interview: Prashant Bhushan

‘The spectrum auction was rigged’

Interview with Prashant Bhushan, political activist and lawyer.

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Bangla, Bengal and Bangal

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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Strained democracy

The manner in which the Jayalalithaa government has filed defamation cases against political opponents and the media and gone about muffling dissent

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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.

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Truer than facts

Kiran Doshi takes an important period of modern India’s history and fictionalises it to make it more intelligible and plausible.

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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

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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

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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

To skill & be skilled

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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

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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.

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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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