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Cauvery water dispute
In this issue
14-10-2016
40 STORIES
Letters
Letters to the Editor
Jayati Ghosh
Voice of sanity
Essay
RSS & Gandhi’s murder
There is enough historical evidence to nail the RSS’ lie that Nathuram Godse was not a member of that organisation when he assassinated Mahatma Gandhi
Sashi Kumar
Minding the language
C.P. Chandrasekhar
Anti-farmer mergers
Interview: Captain S. Raja Rao
‘Karnataka is open about its water usage’
Communalism
Midnight mayhem
Murder, gang rape, and vandalism in the name of cow protection are changing the face of the Mewat region in Haryana and the future of its predominant
Supreme Court's Role
Caught in a tangle
The Supreme Court finds it difficult to extricate itself from the Cauvery conundrum even as the disputing States continue to test its ability to adjud
Extracts
Towards conciliation
Communalism
Halting history
The National Book Trust has decided to stop printing the historian Bipan Chandra’s book Communalism: A Primer.
Inter-State water issues
Disputes aplenty
The Cauvery water dispute has put the focus on inter-State river water disputes in India and the experience so far.
Crime
Suspicious end
The alleged suicide of Ramkumar, the accused in the Swathi murder case, at the Central Prison in Chennai, fuels doubts about the investigating authori
Jammu & Kashmir
Fuelling fear
The terrorist attack in Uri which killed 18 Indian soldiers has generated fears about a resumption of hostilities across the border and added new dime
Situation in Karnataka
Karnataka’s troubles
The Supreme Court’s directive to release water to Tamil Nadu arouses strong feelings in Karnataka which is yet to recover from two consecutive drought
Lady Elliot Island
Gentle giants of the Pacific
History
The other revolt
Uttar Pradesh & Bihar
Divided family
The fight for supremacy between Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and his uncle Shivpal Yadav in Uttar Pradesh and the struggle for predominance between t
NAM Summit
Bye-bye NAM?
India’s growing political and strategic alliance with the U.S. came into sharp focus when Prime Minister Narendra Modi decided to skip the NAM summit
People's Initiatives
Voice of the family
Science & Technology
Scramjet success
Surrogacy
Surrogacy and law
The surrogacy Bill sends out a conservative political message about what kind of families are culturally acceptable. A complete ban on surrogacy, on t
Books
Assamese nationalism
Through academically relevant and well-illustrated arguments, this volume does an admirable job of examining the issues relating to sovereignty in the
Letter from America: Election watch
In a hall of mirrors
No significant issues drive the campaign. No one is seriously entertaining the questions that bother ordinary Americans. The haste to drop ballots int
ARUNACHAL PRADESH
High drama again
The tables are turned on the Congress in Arunachal Pradesh as Chief Minister Pema Khandu, who was preferred over previous Chief Minister Nabam Tuki i
North Korea
Bigger bomb
North Korea conducts another nuclear test, which helps it gain the capability to produce “standardised and minimised” nuclear warheads, and the U.S. p
Books
Salafi-jehadism and its cohorts
Two books attempt to explain the apparent contradiction between Islam’s precept and its practice in the context of the wanton destruction and violence
Space
Cryogenic gains for GSLV
ISRO announces its arrival in the global satellite launch market with the successful flight of the GSLV-Mk II rocket with an indigenous cryogenic engi
Interview: Dr Soumya Swaminathan
‘Surrogacy a hot topic’
Interview with Dr Soumya Swaminathan, Director General, Indian Council of Medical Research.
Literature
Slice of small-town life
Books
The lawyer as writer
Many of the writer’s remarks are strikingly relevant to the Indian judicial system.
Short story
Godavari Gundu
Interview: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah
‘This dispute needs political solution’
Interview with Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah.
Defence Services
United against pay panel award
Syria
Fragile state
Russia and the U.S. were able to come up with a ceasefire agreement for war-ravaged Syria, but the many violations of the agreement and two serious at
Lead Story
Bengaluru’s water woes
West Bengal
Singur and Mamata celebrate
In Conversation: Wendy Doniger
‘Fight words with words’
Cover Story
Cauvery conflict
The reappearance of the crisis shows that only equitable sharing of the river’s waters combined with scientific water conservation and management meas
Communalism
Intolerance unplugged
The academic Meera Nanda is under attack for her article on the Hindu right wing’s positions on the history of science.
Spending on education
Cost of education
NSSO data reveal marked disparities in what people spend on education and also point to a steady erosion of the state's role in higher education.
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