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Aadhaar and fingerprints

In this issue

28-04-201740 STORIES

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Economic Perspectives

Perils of ‘populism’

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Countries vs corporations

Letters to the Editor

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Wings over waves

Breeding colonies of pelagic birds are rare in the subcontinent, but some of the 36 scattered and remote islands of Lakshadweep in the Arabian Sea are

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The sting and the stung

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All-pervasive Aadhaar

By making Aadhaar mandatory for subsidies, pensions and a host of other benefits, the government is fast succeeding in its project to bring everyone o

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Bhujbal case: E.D. submits charges to court

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The ‘outsider’ secretary

A glimpse into the cultural world of a Hindu munshi in the Mughal court.

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New Syrian reality

With a shift in slogan from “Assad must go” to “Assad can stay”, regime change in Damascus seems to be off the table. But what is not clear is the sta

Envoys slam attacks

Statement of concern on unique identity number

Observation, not binding decision

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Under the gun

The essays in the book reflect women’s lived realities under state terror, bearing witness to the lasting impact of militarisation on society.

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Anti-apartheid icon

Ahmed Mohamed Kathrada (1929-2017), South African leader and Nelson Mandela’s fellow prisoner for 26 years, spent the better part of his life fighting

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How green were the hills

The reports of the Land Revenue Commissioner and the Assembly Committee on encroachments, gross violations of land rules, and unbridled construction i

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Killers’ impunity

The Bhagalpur riots and the Gujarat pogrom had common features which still persist.

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Ayodhya: deceit and force

The record of court orders on the proposal for a temple where the Babri Masjid stood shows insidious attempts to sanctify the conversion of the mosque

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Interview: Bezwada Wilson

The Dalit identity dilemma

Interview with Bezwada Wilson, national president of the Safai Karmachari Andolan.

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Health matters

The book offers an overview of India’s health-care system from the vantage point of the author’s two decades of service in the sector, including as Un

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Aadhaar and Midday meals

Politics of exclusion

The idea behind the extensive push for Aadhaar does not seem to be addressing the real issues confronting people, that of hunger and deprivation, b

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Disadvantaged sections

Identity crisis

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A Muslim NATO?

Retired army chief Gen. Raheel Sharif’s new job as the head of a Saudi-led military alliance despite Pakistan’s stated position of maintaining neutral

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The siege of Mosul

The inevitable fall of Mosul may not signal the end of the Daesh as a threat. Many of its fighters have already fled Mosul to areas in northern and we

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The dark side of the universe

It is widely accepted that the dominant fraction of the total mass-energy content in the universe consists of “dark energy”, which is pushing galaxies

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Devious route

This year’s Finance Bill takes an unprecedented turn, vesting the government with almost limitless authority, sabotaging key institutions in the proce

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Targeting Africans

African students face a spate of brutal attacks in Greater Noida following rumours of an Indian boy’s murder.

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Aadhaar and welfare schemes

Data nightmare

Interview with Dipa Sinha, right to food campaigner.

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Under-17 Football

World comes to Kolkata

The FIFA Under-17 World Cup, to be held in India in October, could be a great opportunity to develop football in the country.

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Loot and arson

In a short but brutal attack by a mob on the Muslim quarter of a Samras Panchayat village in Gujarat, hundreds of people become homeless and lose prop

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Tribal struggle

Tribal people evicted from reserved forest land in Karnataka’s Kodagu district have not relocated to the sites offered by the government and insist on

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Interview: Sitaram Yechury

‘Database for a totalitarian state’

Interview with Sitaram Yechury, CPI(M) general secretary and Rajya Sabha Member.

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Aadhaar and NPR

A legal hurdle in Assam

Legal complexities in the updating of the National Register of Citizens, 1951, linked to the cut-off date stipulated in the Assam Accord, stall progre

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Aadhaar project

Blundering along, dangerously

The Aadhaar project’s headlong push towards “total” enrolment of Indian citizens threatens the privacy of individuals on an unprecedented scale, while

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Aadhaar invasion

The Supreme Court appears nonchalant even though the government defies its interim order and makes Aadhaar mandatory for the delivery of subsidies, be

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Huge concerns

It has been mathematically proved that the unique identification number need not be unique at all. Besides, the way biometric data of the country’s hu

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Brexit battles

Cow politics

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Anganwadi workers

Caregivers’ plight

A recent protest in Karnataka draws attention to the poor pay and service conditions of the women who run anganwadi services in the country, protectin

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Kishori Amonkar: Pursuit of perfection

Kishori Amonkar (1932-2017) innovated delightfully, even intrepidly, on stage and was never averse to pushing boundaries. Yet, she never played to the

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Battle against mosquito

Payyalore Krishnaier Rajagopalan spent all his professional life fighting the mosquito menace in India and striving towards eliminating vector-borne d

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