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Gauri Lankesh
In this issue
29-09-2017
37 STORIES
Literature
Excerpt
Subhash Jeyan
Dera Sacha Sauda
Mayhem in Panchkula
Dera “premis”, as the followers are called, indulged in large-scale arson and destroyed private and public property. The State and paramilitary forces
Ashrams and crime
A tale of criminal sants
Ayodhya, home to some of the richest ashrams and maths, is not a stranger to rape, murder and gang wars over succession, but the mahants implicated in
Unmediated
Mahabali in the time of Baahubali
C.P. Chandrasekhar
Downturn blues
Column
Deras and evangelicals
How do we explain the extraordinary popularity of the bizarrely flamboyant Guru Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh Insan of the Dera Sacha Sauda, and the deep lo
Journalist as activist
Gauri Lankesh: Indomitable spirit
Gauri Lankesh worked tirelessly to keep her father’s legacy, “Lankesh Patrike”, alive, but she went beyond journalism and entered the realm of activis
Dera Sacha Sauda
Victims of a guru
Misplaced faith in the positive influence of the Dera Sacha Sauda makes a sarpanch of a village in Kurukshetra send his grown-up daughter and son to l
Cover Story
Gauri Lankesh: A dissenter silenced
Gauri Lankesh’s killing, though one in a long line of similar killings of secular writers, activists and public intellectuals in recent months and yea
Frontline Special
Godmen’s own country
The Dera Sacha Sauda fiasco is a classic example of the state-temple-business nexus and what ensues when the basic social functions of the state are “
Comment
Refusing to die
Gauri Lankesh’s views will not die because they are intrinsic to freedom and humaneness. And her killers are confused because they do not know how the
U.S.-Afghanistan
Escalating the war
Making a complete volte-face on Afghanistan, Donald Trump decides not only to continue the war but to deploy more troops for “killing terrorists” by u
Demonetisation
Spinning a web
The RBI’s report reveals that demonetisation may have fatally damaged the Indian currency system, with more trouble in store.
NEET
Legal challenges
The crime
A method in the madness
There are similarities between the murders of Narendra Dabholkar, Govind Pansare, M.M. Kalburgi and Gauri Lankesh that cannot be dismissed as merely c
North Korea
Nuclear alarm
The Korean peninsula is on the edge once again, following North Korea’s testing of a “hydrogen bomb”.
Interview: Harka Bahadur Chhetri
‘Leaders are scared to call off the bandh’
Interview with Harka Bahadur Chhetri, leader of the Jan Andolan Party.
Interview: Balaji Srinivasan
‘Supreme Court was misled on NEET’
Interview with Balaji Srinivasan, Advocate on Record of the Supreme Court.
PUBLIC HEALTH
‘We are making Kerala future ready’
Excerpts from an interview with Rajeev Sadanandan, Additional Chief Secretary (Health), on Kerala’s new initiatives in public health.
Essay
Ansari & Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s farewell address to former Vice President Hamid Ansari not only betrays his own biases but points to the clash of two n
United States
An American deluge
Hurricane Harvey devastated the coastline of Texas and Louisiana in early September, leaving behind an enormous trail of loss of life and property and
Rohingya
Double jeopardy
The Indian government’s position on the Rohingya refugees is keenly watched as members of the minority Muslim community in Myanmar are massacred or dr
Books
Fading footprints
The well-researched articles in this volume look at the shrinking space for tribal rights from various vantage points.
NEET
Price of inequity
Protests against NEET spill on to the streets of Tamil Nadu following the suicide of a Dalit girl in the State who scored high marks in the Plus Two e
United Kingdom
Students or migrants?
The Theresa May government refuses to change its policy on counting international students as migrants, making it tough for them to stay on legally at
Interview: Prof. Santosh Kumar Singh
Deras & Dalit identity
Interview with Professor Santosh Kumar Singh.
Wildlife
Birds of the eastern Himalaya
Targeting rationalists
Voices of reason
In recent years, the activists Narendra Dabholkar and Govind Pansare paid with their lives for standing up to Hindu right-wing forces.
Defence
Creeping privatisation
The Narendra Modi government is keen to break the monopoly of the Indian ordnance factories, which are viewed by defence pundits as white elephants th
SACHAR REPORT
Shelved & forgotten
More than a decade after the report was tabled, the Central and State governments have not shown the political will to ensure that Muslims and other m
Protests
Targeted but fragmented
India
Deras and babas
M.M. Kalburgi
Murdering scholarship
Why was M.M. Kalburgi, a top-notch scholar who doggedly pursued the path of truthful research, assassinated two years ago? What, in his research, move
Kalburgi killing
Killers on the loose
Books
Noteworthy effort
A candid and comprehensive chronicle of India’s power sector reforms since the mid 1990s, which also offers constructive suggestions to deal with the
Letters
Letters to the Editor
Environment
The girl from Perumbavoor
Subhash Jeyan
Archive
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B.N. Goswamy (1933-2023): Master of the art of seeing
Researcher with a keen eye for detail, B.N. Goswamy was a rarity among art writers
How B.N. Goswamy energised everyone into the cult of seeing
As world focusses on Gaza, Israel’s onslaught on the West Bank continues
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01-12-2023
Anti-Semitism: How it should and should not be defined
Intolerance and outrage leave Indian stand-up comics with less to laugh about
Maratha quota agitation: A cat among the pigeons
How small-town comedians are taking the internet by storm
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17-11-2023
Despite India’s low ranking in the Global Hunger Index, Modi government is hesitant to address the issue
‘The Dystopian Times’ by Appupen
I click, therefore I breathe: The journey of a former selfie-sceptic
A history of modern India: Review of ‘The Queen of All Nations’ by Abhijit Sengupta
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03-11-2023
Assault on NewsClick marks the lowest point for media freedom in India since Emergency
Conflating Hinduism with Vedic religion is a dangerous distortion
Is this Mandal 2.0?
The Gaza crisis was a ticking time bomb
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