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Modi and Amit Shah
In this issue
17-03-2017
38 STORIES
Book excerpts
On macabre pogroms
Letters
Letters to the Editor
C.P. Chandrasekhar
Wicked loans & bad banks
Small business
Matters of business
The sixth economic census highlights the significant growth in business establishments all over the country and the urban-rural divide in employment g
Books
Challenging mythology
The scholarship of Alan Taylor’s book, published before the 2016 U.S. presidential elections, suggests that Trumpism might be less an aberration than
Disproportionate Assets case
The last word
It took two decades for the judiciary to bring the disproportionate assets case against Jayalalithaa to closure, but, in the end, the Supreme Court hi
Interview: Audrey Truschke
‘They want to treat Aurangzeb as a political football’
Interview with Audrey Truschke, the author of “Aurangzeb: The Man and The Myth”.
Kanha Tiger Reserve
Barasingha breaks new ground
The grass-eating hard ground barasingha gives conservationists a lot to cheer about following a slow but sure increase in its almost extinct populatio
West Bengal
Brand Ambassador may yet survive
Science & Technology
Vidarbha shows the way to check suicides
Interview: Keshav Prasad Maurya
‘There is no sectarian plan’
Interview with Keshav Prasad Maurya, Uttar Pradesh unit president of the BJP.
Tamil Nadu
Keezhadi dig to continue
Books
Never say die
Politics
MLAs in zenana
Interview: Akhilesh Yadav
‘People can see through the twisting of facts’
Interview with Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav.
Assembly Elections: Manipur
The Naga factor
Suspicions about the contents of the Framework Agreement between the Centre and the NSCN(I-M) rankle the people of Manipur even as the ruling Congress
Maharashtra civic elections
BJP’s show
The Shiv Sena gets more seats in the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai, but the BJP emerges the winner in the civic elections in Maharashtra.
Space
Stellar feat
ISRO puts 104 satellites into orbit in a single launch, in itself an achievement, but the real challenge was to release them in a predetermined sequen
Aurangzeb
New perspectives on Aurangzeb
Academics and history writers are looking afresh at the regnal years of the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb to show him as being less tyrannical than he was
Philosophy
Unconquerable mind
A look at Ludwig Wittgenstein, the redoubtable genius of freethinking and fearless challenger of blinkered theoreticians.
D.A. case
A trial of two decades
The timeline of the “disproportionate assets” case against Jayalalithaa reveals the evasive tactics she employed to delay the trial and the verdict.
Legality of Floor Test
Vote under a cloud
The power to choose the method of floor test lies with the Speaker. However, issues such as the confinement of AIADMK MLAs in the days prior to the fl
Sasikala in control
Last resort
From being herded into a resort at Koovathur to gathering at Fort St. George, the seat of power in Tamil Nadu, for the confidence vote in the Assembly
Interview: Akeel Bilgrami
On fascism and the ‘movement vacuum’
Interview with Akeel Bilgrami, professor of philosophy at Columbia University.
Governor's role
Constitution & successions
It is hard to question the procedure that was followed by the Governor in Tamil Nadu, harder, still, to be pleased with the result.
Science & Technology
Studying thunderstorms from space
Tamil Nadu
Tragedy and farce
In an action-filled fortnight, the Supreme Court sends V.K. Sasikala to prison but her family takes control of the ruling party in Tamil Nadu and her
Interview: Sudhindra Bhadoria
‘No truck with the BJP’
Interview with BSP spokesperson Sudhindra Bhadoria.
Cover Story: Uttar Pradesh Assembly Elections
Communal twist
The Bharatiya Janata Party plays the communal card in Uttar Pradesh, indicating that desperation has begun to consume the party as the Assembly electi
Africa
How Africa developed Europe
The end of colonialism in Africa only freed the continent politically. The continuation of the exploitative structures whose foundations were laid in
Health care
For affordable stents
The fixing of ceiling prices for stents is much delayed and is at best a piecemeal intervention in a health-care industry that continues to remain unc
Pakistan
Tentacles of terror
The growing terrorist threat in Pakistan and Afghanistan is blamed on the Pakistani political-military establishment’s encouragement of terror groups
Trump
Game of thrones
It was perhaps reasonable for Trump to consider what the Americans call a “reset” on its policy with Russia. But now it would be too suspicious if Tru
West Bengal
Striking fear
Two Bills passed recently by the West Bengal Assembly, one to crush any voice of opposition and the other to wrest complete control of government-aide
Israel-Palestine
Receding hope
Donald Trump expresses support for a one-state solution, which would mean the permanent subjugation of the Palestinian people and accelerated alienati
Jayati Ghosh
Music in the Romantic imagination
Sashi Kumar
Post-Trump press-pective
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Movie trailers: The unofficial manifestos of our time
Viral fever: The curious spectacle of campaign films
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Tastes of the earth
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Close encounters with the third kind
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Is India truly the voice of the Global South at WTO?
SBI’s reluctance to reveal electoral bond data raises concerns about its independence and reliability
Essays by Prabir Purkayastha: Defending reason with passion
How homogenisation can flatten knowledge systems
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Why the tiger-human conflict rages in Bandipur and Nagarahole
Minimum Support Price: A question of how, not why
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