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23-06-2017
39 STORIES
NPA
A crisis made worse
The Railways
Crumbling structure
Mumbai’s suburban rail network ferries millions every day, but the stations and the infrastructure are in a pathetic state. The Elphinstone Road stati
Jayati Ghosh
Computer outages
Interview
The storyteller of Kochi
Interview with Anees Salim, whose “The Small-Town Sea” has just been published.
Public health
Beware the ticks of Kyasanur
Kyasanur forest disease, a viral infection that can be fatal, has spread beyond the forests of Shivamogga in Karnataka, where it was first discovered
Sashi Kumar
Arnab’s Republic
Essay
A blot on India’s secularism
The country failed to give the Jamia Millia Islamia University its dues as an institution founded by a minority community with the objective of servin
Interview: Avijit Pathak
‘We are witnessing the repressive apparatus of the state’
Interview with JNU sociologist Avijit Pathak on the rise in incidents of lynching and its social ramifications.
Tamil Nadu
Resistance on the ground
The battle against the Centre’s notification banning the sale of cattle for slaughter gets a fillip in Tamil Nadu.
Coal scam
Landmark judgment
On the basis of a CBI probe, a special court convicts, awards jail terms to and imposes fines on three civil servants of the Coal Ministry for crimina
Iran
A mandate for reform
Hassan Rouhani gets elected for a second term as President, in what is seen as the electorate’s unequivocal approval of his reforms and the country’s
U.S.-West Asia
Business as usual
During Donald Trump’s recent tour of West Asia, when he signed trade and defence deals worth $480 billion with Saudi Arabia, even the customary protes
Notification on sale of cattle
Daggers drawn
Mamata Banerjee slams the Centre’s move as unconstitutional and as a deliberate attempt to encroach upon States’ powers.
Books
A bruised history
Besides being an indictment of Pakistan, the book lays bare the severe setbacks India faced because of the failure of its intelligence agencies.
Reports from the States
Pain of separation
Presidential election
In for a surprise
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will decide who the BJP’s nominee for the post of President will be. Insiders say it could be someone with impeccable cre
Books
Shakespeare today
On the relevance of his plays to the modern world.
Diary from Trumpland
Trump’s world order
There is no combined will in Europe, already rattled by Brexit, to produce a European military, and even less determination to actually alienate itsel
Heritage
Contrasting mounds
England
After Manchester
The terrorist attack in Manchester makes clear the vulnerabilities of the ruling Conservatives, who have struggled to control the debates generated by
Communalism
For cow and cash
It is not just love for the cow that motivates gau rakshaks. Often, as the recent lynchings in Jharkhand indicate, commercial interests and rivalries
Books
Glimpses of a rich life
These volumes of the Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru are a useful record of Nehru’s talks with Ayub Khan on the boundary question.
Heritage
A complete sequence
Banking industry
Breaking the banks
The government’s recourse to an ordinance to solve the “bad loan” menace in the Indian banking system raises serious questions of moral hazards and it
Controversy
In the name of cattle protection
The Centre’s notification restricting cattle slaughter reeks of political expediency and will only serve to hurt rural economies that are already reel
Archaeology
Telltale furnaces
The latest round of the Archaeological Survey of India’s excavations at 4MSR in Rajasthan gives valuable insights into how the Harappans made the tran
Interview: Samir Sinha
Tipping point
Interview with Samir Sinha, founder, Robonomics AI, Sydney, Australia.
Politics
Rising resistance
The success of back-to-back agitations by the Left and the BJP has shaken the Trinamool Congress out of its complacency.
Right to information
All talk, little information
Comparison of RTI data show that the Narendra Modi government has not been as good for right to information as its predecessor, the Manmohan Singh reg
Interview: R. Chandrashekhar, NASSCOM
Of uncomfortable truths
Interview with R. Chandrashekhar, NASSCOM president.
M. Karunanidhi
Relentless legislator
A look back at the contribution of DMK president M. Karunanidhi to the body politic of the country during the six decades of his legislative participa
K. Chandrasekharan
Forgotten genius
Remembering K. Chandrasekharan (1920-2017), one of the leading mathematicians of the 20th century who played a seminal role in making TIFR a world-ren
Lead Story
Techies fight back
IT industry
Losing steam
The lack of a robust global recovery since 2008, protectionist tendencies in the U.S. and the uncertainty surrounding offshoring are taking the sheen
Cover Story
A dream in decline
The spectre of large-scale job losses haunts the Indian IT services industry, which teeters on the brink of an existential crisis.
Interview: Carol Upadhya
‘IT collapse would shut paths to social mobility’
Interview with Carol Upadhya, Professor, School of Social Sciences, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru.
IT employees and unions
Changing mindset
IT employees have stayed away from unionisation, considering themselves professionals and not workers. Now, in view of the increasing lay-offs, they a
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