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Leaving an emasculated party

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06-01-201732 STORIES

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Digital dreams

Letters to the Editor

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Economic Perspectives

Budget after demonetisation

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Anecdotal recaps

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Tipu—fact & fiction

The opposition to the celebration of Tipu Jayanti in Karnataka is rooted in a distorted narrative of history that portrays the Mysore ruler as a relig

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Jayalalithaa’s legacy

The AIADMK supremo won the hearts of millions, especially women, with a slew of welfare measures though she was strongly criticised for her imperious

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An epic tale in many forms

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Uncertain outcome

Jayalalithaa’s demise renders uncertain the verdict in the case of disproportionate wealth against her, on which the Supreme Court reserved its verdic

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Original octaves

His fearless experimentation, his willingness to collaborate with artists belonging to other genres, his zest for life and his appeal to the young gav

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India & Pakistan

Reluctant to talk

There has been an escalation in tensions, apart from a deterioration of diplomatic relations, between India and Pakistan after the “surgical strike” a

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DMK's challenges

DMK in transition

The political situation created by Jayalalithaa’s death presents a new set of challenges before the DMK.

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State slaughter

The government is busy stoking anti-Muslim sentiment to justify its genocidal treatment of the Rohingya, who have been denied basic rights despite hav

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Blundering along

The opaque manner in which the government has handled demonetisation has fatally damaged the framework of economic governance.

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Where is Najeeb?

More than two months after Najeeb disappeared from JNU following an attack on him by ABVP supporters, neither the police nor the university authoritie

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Letter from America

The Trump team

This is a government of fables. It is appropriate that it is led by Donald Trump, a man made more by the world of entertainment than by the world of g

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Murky disclosure

The massive income declaration of little-known businessman Mahesh Shah throws up a gamut of questions on the presence of politicians on the black mone

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AIADMK's evolution

Icons and outsiders

The story of the transformation of MGR’s AIADMK into Jayalalithaa’s, and at least for now Sasikala’s, party.

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Corporate neglect

A World Bank report chastises IFC and APPL for failing to improve the conditions in the tea estates of Assam, confirming long-standing complaints by w

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Will to excel

A tribute to the indomitable spirit of an injured IAF officer.

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Kashmir in perspective

The book is a significant contribution to the contemporary understanding of the larger political problem in Kashmir in a broad historical perspective.

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A diplomat’s musings

A lucid account of the making of India’s foreign policy in the past four decades and the rationale for the choices made.

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Faraway land…

Refreshing change

Court lifts ban on combination drugs

Reluctant leader

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Contempt for media

Jayalalithaa as Chief Minister did not hesitate to make public her intolerance of the media and opposition criticism, and she did this through a slew

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Loosening control

The Health Ministry’s moves to dismantle the established price regime for essential medicines, undermining affordable access to drugs and weakening th

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A monstrous wrong

There is no Quranic sanction for triple talaq at all. Muslims of India cannot avoid or evade the stark choice that faces them. Do they want their law

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Patriotism, by order

The Supreme Court’s interim order making it mandatory to play the national anthem and show respect to it by standing in cinema halls runs the risk of

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He stood tall

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On the Right trajectory

‘Cho’ S. Ramaswamy (1934-2016) spoke truth to power in the early days, but his conservative political ideology, which expressed the anxieties of the u

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The actor & the person

The star, the actor & the woman

Many of the characters played by Jayalalithaa in her films were dramatisations of patriarchal anxieties, with the female body rendered pleasurable and

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