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FL29GODMAN

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

FL29NRITYAGOPALDAS

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

FL29ONAM

Mahabali in the time of Baahubali

FL29GSTPROTEST

C.P. Chandrasekhar

Downturn blues

FL29PENTECOSTAL

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

FL29LANKESH

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

FL29DERA4

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

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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

FL29RAMRAHIMDERA

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 “

FL29SKGAURI

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

FL29AFGHANTROOPS

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

FL29RBI

Spinning a web

The RBI’s report reveals that demonetisation may have fatally damaged the Indian currency system, with more trouble in store.

Legal challenges

FL29CRIMESCENE1

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

FL29NORTHKOREACHINESEPRESSURE

Nuclear alarm

The Korean peninsula is on the edge once again, following North Korea’s testing of a “hydrogen bomb”.

FL29Harka Bahadur Chhetri

Interview: Harka Bahadur Chhetri

‘Leaders are scared to call off the bandh’

Interview with Harka Bahadur Chhetri, leader of the Jan Andolan Party.

FL29FRONTLINEBALAJISRINIVASAN

Interview: Balaji Srinivasan

‘Supreme Court was misled on NEET’

Interview with Balaji Srinivasan, Advocate on Record of the Supreme Court.

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‘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.

FL29ANSARI

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

FL29HARVEY

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

FL29MYANMAR-ROHINGYABANGLADESH

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

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Fading footprints

The well-researched articles in this volume look at the shrinking space for tribal rights from various vantage points.

FL29NEETPROTEST1

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

FL29BRITAIN-EDUCATION-IMMIGRATION

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

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Interview: Prof. Santosh Kumar Singh

Deras & Dalit identity

Interview with Professor Santosh Kumar Singh.

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Birds of the eastern Himalaya

FL29DABHOLKAR

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.

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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

FL29RAJINDARSACHAR

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

FL29JOURNAILSTS

Targeted but fragmented

Deras and babas

FL29KALBURGI

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

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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 to the Editor

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