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Issue on Assembly elections results, March 2017
In this issue
31-03-2017
40 STORIES
Economic Perspectives
A nexus under attack
Jayati Ghosh
The long fight for justice
Mexico
Time to look east?
Recent developments, including Donald Trump’s aggressive actions, may make Mexico more receptive to emerging global economies, and it would be to Indi
United States
Inventing enemies
The motivation behind the attacks on Indian Americans is a combination of seeing South Asians as terrorists and Indians as usurpers of high-tech jobs.
India's defence spending
Cost of security
India figures in the global league of big defence spenders, but much of its defence budget increase is accounted for by rising revenue expenditure.
Governance
Dubious transfer
Was J.S. Deepak, Chairman of the Telecom Commission, shunted out to the Commerce Ministry because he had raised several issues relating to Jio?
Africa
Sahrawis’ struggle
Morocco violates the 26-year-old ceasefire agreement with the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, fuelling tension in Western Sahara.
India
‘No coal-based methane extraction in Neduvasal’
Interview
Resistance and truth-speaking
Interview with Professor Mukul Manglik, teacher at Ramjas College of Delhi University.
Ramjas College
Under siege
The ABVP rampage at Delhi University’s Ramjas College over a seminar leaves teachers and students brutalised and traumatised, but resistance to intimi
Legislation
Bitter medicine
The West Bengal government passes a Bill to rein in private hospitals, but the health care industry says the proposed law is meant to hide the governm
Cover Story: Punjab
Return of the Congress
By voting the Congress to power, Punjab has opted for continuity and change. A series of tactical errors seem to have stopped the widely predicted AAP
Cover story: Uttar Pradesh
Arithmetic of success
The BJP’s communal narrative during campaigning and its superior organisational machinery were key factors behind the saffron party’s thumping victory
Cover Story: Goa
Up in the air
A record voter turnout does not ensure a clear winner in Goa, and both the Congress and the BJP are keen to form the next government.
Education
To end inequity in education
Interview with Wendy Kopp, co-founder of Teach For All.
India
Savarkar’s pupils
Cover Story: Uttarakhand
Decisive mandate
The BJP gets a three-fourths majority, winning 57 seats in the 70-member Assembly, and the ruling Congress is reduced to a very weak opposition with
Cover Story: Manipur
Tightrope walk
The new government will have to balance two opposing demands that dominated the election process: to retain Manipur’s territorial integrity and to int
Cover Story
Right on top
The Narendra Modi-led Indian Right’s march continues with major victories in the latest Assembly elections, presenting a host of challenges before oth
India
Minister ‘helpless’
Telangana
An arrest and a donation
Odisha
BJP gains in panchayat polls
Books
Politics behind the scenes
A two-volume compilation of British despatches to London from India and Pakistan in the year after the twin dominions won independence shows the forme
Books
Elephants down the ages
Informative studies on the history of the elephant in South Asia and its relations with human beings in the past, present and the future.
GDP data
GDP conundrum
Recently released data from the CSO, which claimed that demonetisation had had no significant impact on the performance of the economy, raise more que
Books
On the boundaries
A collection of essays that looks at how the history of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands was shaped by colonial intervention.
Books
Woman power
A timely reminder that International Women’s Day had its origin in the revolutionary socialist movement.
Demonetisation
Persistence of misery
Industry continues to reel under an immense amount of job loss across various sectors following demonetisation, but the government remains oblivious t
Controversy
Twisting history
Rajasthan University includes a book that declares Rana Pratap, the ruler of Mewar, as the winner of the Battle of Haldighati—a claim that has no basi
Eugene Garfield
Science watcher and entrepreneur
Eugene Garfield (1925-2017), who is regarded as the founder of the field of scientometrics, developed the Science Citation Index and a journal-ranking
Controversy
Anxiety over land
The Central government’s decision to commence work on the hydrocarbon project in the Neduvasal field in Pudukottai district of Tamil Nadu under its ne
Korea
Twin troubles
The two Koreas provoke China into punitive actions: the South by deciding to deploy the U.S. THAAD missile system and the North by test firing its new
West Bengal
BJP leader held in baby-sale racket
Granite mining
Anatomy of a loot
Frontline accesses the Sagayam Report on the granite loot in Madurai district in Tamil Nadu, which went on for more than a decade from the mid 1990s.
Nature
The Beetles story
Sashi Kumar
Born to blush unseen
Public Health
A tale of exploitation
The large number of unwarranted hysterectomies performed in Kalaburagi seem to make a pattern.
Essay
Modi & Savarkar: Ideological turns
V.D. Savarkar’s politics was a fight against history. Plagued by a minority complex, he was committed to Hindu, not Indian, nationalism, and the creat
Letters
Letters to the editor
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