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Issue on Assembly elections results, March 2017

In this issue

31-03-201739 STORIES

Economic Perspectives

A nexus under attack

The long fight for justice

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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.

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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

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Born to blush unseen

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The Beetles story

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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.

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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

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On the boundaries

A collection of essays that looks at how the history of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands was shaped by colonial intervention.

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Woman power

A timely reminder that International Women’s Day had its origin in the revolutionary socialist movement.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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?

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Sahrawis’ struggle

Morocco violates the 26-year-old ceasefire agreement with the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, fuelling tension in Western Sahara.

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‘No coal-based methane extraction in Neduvasal’

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Resistance and truth-speaking

Interview with Professor Mukul Manglik, teacher at Ramjas College of Delhi University.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Savarkar’s pupils

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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

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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

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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

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Minister ‘helpless’

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An arrest and a donation

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BJP gains in panchayat polls

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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.

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To end inequity in education

Interview with Wendy Kopp, co-founder of Teach For All.

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BJP leader held in baby-sale racket

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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.

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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.

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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

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A tale of exploitation

The large number of unwarranted hysterectomies performed in Kalaburagi seem to make a pattern.

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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

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