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04-08-201735 STORIES

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Economic Perspectives

The Hamburg fiasco

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Himalayan face-off

The current standoff in the Doklam area, the worst crisis in India-China relations since the 1962 war, has the potential to escalate and unsettle the

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Natural allies

With Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Israel in July, the first by an Indian head of government, India continues to deepen its ties with the Je

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Art of resilience

The tourism restrictions announced by President Donald Trump may not make any drastic impact on Cuba.

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Marching to a different drummer

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On the scam trail

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Interview: Arundhati Roy

Arundhati Roy: ‘We are all living in a graveyard of sorts’

Interview with Arundhati Roy.

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An oasis in the cold desert

Life in the last villages close to the LoC in Ladakh, which were in Pakistan's control till 1971, seems caught in a time warp, though tourism is slowl

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Manusmriti in Modi era

The RSS’ cultural affiliate is planning to bring out a sanitised version of Manusmriti without the harsh references to women and Dalits, but scholars

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Geopolitical implications

Border manoeuvres

The standoff in Doklam is emblematic of a growing competition between India and China for a larger geopolitical role in Asia.

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Chilling act

Despite being the target of state violence for long, Kashmiris condemn with one voice the killing of seven pilgrims in an attack on a bus carrying Ama

Mischievous virals

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The real Indian dog

The book is a well-researched treatise on the historical presence of native dog breeds in Indian society.

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At odds with the rest

Donald Trump said that the West “will never be broken”, but it is evident after the G20 meeting that the West, or at least the G20, is in deep disarra

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Lesson from Yawal

Contrary to the impression sought to be created, Yawal Wildlife Sanctuary offers an excellent example of how gram sabhas, with help from local organis

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A wake-up call

The Supreme Court releases its detailed judgment in the Justice Karnan case but leaves key questions unanswered.

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Merchants of fear

The journalist Shamya Dasgupta has ably put together the story of the Ramsay brothers, a family united in spirit and in business and that does not tak

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Nuclear rhetoric

In the wake of North Korea’s July 4 ICBM test, the U.S. may have to put the military option on the back burner for the foreseeable future, notwithstan

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A poet as a translator

William Radice made it his mission to restore Tagore’s poetry to its true place, “in its own true majesty and environment”, so that “Tagore as a man a

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History of a dispute

The Pan Tsu-li moment

A strong thread of continuity in China’s approach runs for six decades, from 1959 to this day. India ignored the hints, with two consequences. China c

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Issues in Focus

End of the Gulf dream?

Stagnating wages, rising costs of living, a growing trend of imposing restrictions on foreign workers and the declining fortunes of the Gulf itself ha

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Tracking arboviruses

Bats and other small mammals that chronically harbour viruses act as disease reservoirs, though the exact pathways through which these are transmitted

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Development Issues

Lending a helping hand

Since 1996, a unique microenterprise movement helmed by the Mann Deshi Foundation has transformed the lives of lakhs of rural women in a remote, droug

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Interview: Chetna Gala Sinha

‘We want to empower a million women by 2020’

Interview with Chetna Gala Sinha, founder, Mann Deshi Foundation.

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In-house feud

The Uttarakhand Chief Minister ignores Nitin Gadkari’s advice and orders a CBI probe against officials of the Union Ministry for Road Transport and Hi

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The goat doctors of Mhaswad

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Project in peril

The eagerness shown by the NDA government to open Jan Aushadhi centres without ensuring the quality and availability of the medicines supplied and rem

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Fast-tracking privatisation

Select railway stations, along with prime land belonging to them, are to be leased to private operators in one of a series of steps aimed at handing o

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Running amok

Lieutenant Governor Kiran Bedi nominates and swears in three BJP leaders as MLAs in utmost secrecy and in blatant disregard of all established norms a

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War of words

The spat between Mamata Banerjee and Governor Keshari Nath Tripathi in the wake of a communal flare-up takes the relations between the Trinamool Congr

Violent turn

Four more die in police firing in Darjeeling as the agitation for Gorkhaland intensifies.

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India-China Relations

Western tilt

Despite burgeoning trade and cultural ties, India-China relations appear headed for a rough road as a result of the Modi government’s keenness to tran

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A question of ideology

Modi & Zionism

The Hindu right wing’s admiration for Israel and the Zionist ideology is born out of its antipathy to Muslims.

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‘Hijra has become a political identity’

Interview with Vyjayanti Vasanta Mogli and Rachana Mudraboyina.

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