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18-08-201736 STORIES

FL18FOREST

Land Acquisition

Subverting FRA

The Forest Rights Act recognises the indispensability of forest rights for the survival of tribal people and forest dwellers, but the NDA government i

FL18AMIRTHALINGAM

Deja vu in Colombo

FL18KINGFISHER

All talk and no action

FL18SAVARKAR

Distorting history

In Rajasthan, Savarkar is the new hero of history textbooks that give short shrift to Gandhi and Nehru and the movements they led during the country’s

FL18MUMBAI

Land Acquisition: Maharashtra

Grand scheme

The Maharashtra government’s Mumbai-Nagpur expressway is on course despite large tracts of irrigated land being lost to the project.

FL 18 UR RAO

Satellite man

Prof. U.R. Rao (1932-2017) was the architect of Aryabhata, the first satellite that India built, and a key figure in ISRO’s rise to international reco

FL18AISUNSET

Bowing to privatisation

The move to privatise Air India comes after years of deliberate neglect by the government and a series of measures taken over two decades to systemati

FL18PEHLU

Anti-lynching law

Dodging duty

Instead of bringing in a strong law against lynching and other forms of violence by cow vigilantes, the Centre plays down the seriousness of the threa

fl18 bk art india 1

The Art of India—a coffee-table book from Frontline

fl18 documentary sen 1

Bleeping out Amartya Sen

The censor board’s objection to the use of words such as “cow”, “Hindutva” and “Gujarat” in a documentary on the Nobel Prize-winning economist is seen

“How can you deny an objective fact?”

Interview with Suman Ghosh, the maker of the documentary on Amartya Sen.

fl18 bkShonaleeka

Theory unlimited

The book is a cogent summation of the most influential modern theories that have grappled with and tried to explain the dynamics of unequal societies

FL18LANDMAIN

Development Issues

Private interests & public resistance

The recent turnaround in the role of the state from one that would push progressive redistribution of land in favour of the landless to one that would

FL18CFLahori Gate

Many-splendoured citadel

fl18 bk films

Archiving an archivist

An anthology of P.K. Nair’s writings provides one a glimpse into the heart and mind of a diehard cinephile who was also an archivist, a chronicler and

FL18BARD

Celebrating Shakespeare

The poet with a muse of fire

Shakespeare is celebrated for his plays and sonnets, but his life is no less fascinating.

FL18 assam floods

Natural disaster

Assam’s sorrow

Unprecedented floods cause devastation to life and property in 29 districts of the State, reviving the opposition to a mega dam project in neighbourin

fl18 bk susan ram

Revolutionaries with ribbons of sea-green

The author takes us into the very tissue of contention, reconnecting us with the fire and passion of the English Revolution and enabling the Levellers

FL18TELANGANA

Land Acquisition: Telangana & Andhra Pradesh

An Act undone

Telangana and Andhra Pradesh use devious means to undermine the Land Act of 2013 in order to enable legalised land grab.

FL18GATHBANDHAN

Anatomy of a coup

Nitish Kumar’s volte-face was in the making for a long time, and the growing popularity of Tejashwi Yadav was only an immediate provocation.

FL18VALARMATHIANDJAYANTHI

Act of suppression

In Tamil Nadu, preventive detention laws have become a convenient tool in the hands of the State government, which sees dissent as a threat.

FL18KASHMIRTRUCK

Rape of Article 370

To empower New Delhi with collection of taxes on goods and services “with the concurrence of the Government of the State of Jammu and Kashmir” is to s

FL18IRAQ11

Mosul regained

The Iraqi Army reclaims Mosul from the Daesh after a protracted battle. The cash-strapped central government in Baghdad will have to depend on foreign

FL18BIHARINTERVIEW

Interview: Tejashwi Prasad Yadav

‘Part of Amit Shah’s ploy to bind Nitish’

Interview with Tejashwi Prasad Yadav.

fl18 bk AGN Kashmir

The Army in Kashmir

A valuable first-hand account of the start of militancy in the Kashmir valley in 1988-89, showing how the Army’s ruthless high-handed role sent the si

FL8SINHA

Judiciary vs parliament

The Bangladesh government loses its appeal against the High Court verdict that termed the 16th amendment to the Constitution, which gave Parliament th

FL18JHARKHANDMEET

Up for grabs

FL8BRAZIL

Tumultuous times

The political system in Brazil has been rocked by a mammoth corruption investigation nicknamed Operation Car Wash, even as the country’s economy remai

FL18YAMEEN

Resisting autocracy

The opposition makes yet another serious attempt to break the shackles put on it by the government.

FL18TRUMP

Diary from Trumpland

Appetite for war

There is an eagerness in the White House and amongst its Israeli and Saudi partners to start another war. This time it will be against Iran.

FL18JHAR0142

Land Acquisition: Jharkhand

Losing in India

While the Chief Minister dreams about the heights that he hopes Jharkhand will achieve, the farmers who stand to lose their land to make way for indus

FL18YASHPAL1

For the love of science

Yash Pal’s (1926-2017) career spanned many decades and disciplines but his main commitment was to demystify science and instil in students a wonder fo

Dubious distinction

FL18SWEARINGIN

Power games

Nitish Kumar’s power play in Bihar, while dealing a crippling blow to the entire mainstream opposition in India, sends out the unmistakable message th

fl18 solar MP 1

Land Acquisition: Madhya Pradesh

Solar betrayal

The rocky terrain of Madhya Pradesh’s Neemuch district has emerged as the largest solar power-generating hub in India, but the nomadic communities tha

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