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The popular uprising over jallikattu
In this issue
17-02-2017
38 STORIES
Preoccupations
A universal basic income in India?
Sashi Kumar
The tyranny of populism
Economic Perspectives
UDAY fails to rise
Letters
Letters to the editor
Land Struggle
Taste of her own medicine
Mamata Banerjee’s administration faces an agitation against land acquisition that has disturbing parallels with the Nandigram and Singur agitations wh
UNITED STATES
The Russia bogey
A U.S. intelligence report accuses Russia of interfering in its election process but provides no evidence to back up the claims.
Lead Story
The bull and the ban
Lead Story
The legal tangle
The twists and turns the legal understanding of jallikattu has undergone in the past decade bring out its complexity.
India
Intimidatory tactics
The University of Hyderabad follows questionable practices to shield itself from media scrutiny.
Armed Forces
Food for thought
A video on social media showing substandard food being served to BSF jawans draws national attention to discrimination the non-officer cadre faces in
History
The making of India
Essay
Hypocrisy on Kashmir
Seventy years after the Kashmir issue erupted, it is time to go beyond the deliberately untenable positions that the governments of India and Pakistan
Disaster
Death in a mine
The mining disaster in the Rajmahal opencast mine in Jharkhand raises questions about the safety standards adopted by coalfields and adherence to min
United States
Trail of blood
Barack Obama’s legacy as a votary of global peace will remain tainted as targeting of civilians in war zones registered a significant increase during
U.S.
‘Carnage’ & resistance
President Donald Trump’s inauguration speech was bleak and dominated by descriptions of “American carnage” and many of the stands remained empty. But
Lead Story
The Marina moment
The jallikattu ban was only a trigger for the protest around Pongal on Chennai's Marina beach. Lakhs of people, most of them youths, gathered spontane
U.K.
Health care crisis
The causes of the current plight of the U.K.’s National Health Service are complex and interwoven, with funding certainly at the centre of it.
Lead Story
Cry for kambala
Following the jallikattu protests, people in the coastal districts of Karnataka take up the cause of kambala, a buffalo racing event that is going thr
Lead Story
Question of ethics
PETA is perceived as a “foreign” organisation that has little regard for cultural plurality or local practices. Its ad campaigns only reinforce such p
Social issues
Show of solidarity
One year after Rohith Vemula’s suicide, survivors of communal violence assemble at the gates of the University of Hyderabad as a mark of remembrance.
EVENTS
The show limps on
The Vibrant Gujarat summit, now in its eighth edition, has had little to show in terms of actual investments by or investment intentions of internatio
Lead Story
Brutal crackdown
Lead Story
Lessons for parties
The jallikattu protests exposed how the political parties of Tamil Nadu gravely miscalculated the people’s anger and sense of alienation.
Assembly elections: Uttarakhand
Errors of judgement
The BJP’s failed attempts to topple the Rawat government and its overt support to Congress rebels could sound the death knell for the party’s prospect
Assembly elections: Punjab
Change on the cards
The Aam Aadmi Party appears to have an edge over its rivals in Punjab although voters in the three regions are divided between the Congress and the ne
Assembly elections
‘Congress all set to make a clean sweep’
Assembly elections: Uttar Pradesh
Tall claims, latent fears
As Uttar Pradesh goes into campaign mode, confusion prevails on the ground even as leaders of all major parties exude confidence.
Politics
‘We have to think Goa first’
Politics
‘Goa needs development’
Assembly elections: Goa
Hotchpotch in Goa
Manohar Parrikar appears to be the BJP’s best bet and the Congress falls back once again on its veteran leader Pratapsinh Rane. But the AAP, Goa Forwa
Books
An upright civil servant
In the civil service, N.N. Vohra had no parallel in terms of the knowledge and consistency with which he spoke on the country’s governance and securit
Assembly elections
AAP hopeful of big win
Politics
Mining and other promises
Assembly elections
Not a one-man show
Books
Behind the mutinies
The volume explores how 19th century mutinies were connected to the issues of honour and justice, paternalistic relations, structures of deference, an
Travel
A trek to Everest
Books
For sustainable development
This book, a tribute to the environment economist U. Sankar, elaborates on a range of environmental and development concerns that are specific to Indi
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