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Modi government on the backfoot
In this issue
27-10-2017
38 STORIES
Iraq
Dangerous gambit
Iraqi Kurds hold and win a referendum for an independent state defying strong warnings from neighbouring countries and the central government in Iraq.
Cover Story
In damage control mode
The looming economic crisis, a result of reckless policies, has rattled the BJP, which leads the government, and the larger Sangh Parivar.
Economic policy
Compounding a crisis
In the hands of the Narendra Modi government, economic policy has been reduced to disaster management following the wreckage caused by GST and demonet
Jan Dhan Yojana
Dry accounts
The Jan Dhan Yojana, the government’s flagship scheme that, along with Aadhaar and the mobile, aims to achieve financial inclusion of the poor has run
Ayurvedic cancer treatment
Battle for recognition
A project to establish scientific parameters for Ayurvedic cancer treatment has been hanging fire despite the Modi regime’s claims of promoting Indian
Jayati Ghosh
De-digitisation of India
Sashi Kumar
Where is the mind without fear?
Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd
‘Maybe they wanted it to be a mob lynching’
Interview with Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd, writer and political observer.
Jammu & Kashmir
Might is right
By denying space for dialogue, the Narendra Modi government has reinforced its policy of a military approach to Kashmir which will only give more oppo
Campus Politics
Message from Hyderabad
Union election results at the Hyderabad Central University confirm the growing disenchantment with right-wing forces among students.
Human Rights
Victims twice over
Hyderabad has the largest Rohingya settlement in the country after Jammu, with 4,000 refugees living in 17 camps. Driven out of their own country and
Books
America’s crime
The book by a former senior leadership analyst with the CIA presents a different picture of Saddam Hussein which is in contrast to his public persona
India
‘I am not a votary of mumbo-jumbo Ayurveda’
Interview with Vaidya Balendu Prakash.
India
Vain engagements
Books
Bin Laden, the inside story
The book, backed by relentless research, brings out the actions that led to the killing of the Al Qaeda leader.
Thailand
Dystopia unchecked
The country’s military junta, armed with a new interim Constitution that makes a mockery of democracy, has been postponing elections on some pretext o
Diary from Trumpland
A tale of two islands
One island, a poor socialist state with infrastructure in grave need of modernisation, has slowly emerged out of the chaos caused by a hurricane’s wra
Gender Issues
A new beginning
The BHU students’ protests have helped consolidate a progressive sensibility that is challenging the feudal system dominating the university.
Books
Of rousing times & tunes
Rural electrification scheme
Unrealistic initiative
The Prime Minister’s announcement of a rural electrification scheme sounds hollow in view of the government’s track record in implementing earlier sch
Perspective
Strangulating the informal economy
The current slowdown in the economy, aggravated by the persistent world economic crisis, has much to do with the twin coercive instruments of demoneti
Terrorism
Bloodbath in Las Vegas
A man with little political connection and no real religious fealty, a high-stakes gambler who enjoyed the high life of Las Vegas hotels and casinos,
FRDI Bill
Dangers in a Bill
The Resolution Corporation that the Central government is planning to set up through an Act of Parliament can result in a clean-up of banks and other
Vocational training
Chasing a mirage
The Union government’s much-touted schemes to impart vocational training failed in their twin objectives of providing employment and creating a pool o
Meat traders in U.P.
Licence to harass
Meat traders in Uttar Pradesh continue to suffer as the administration fails to remove the hurdles placed in the way of their business.
The Rohingya
In a sea of hate
The fate of the Rohingya refugees in India hangs in the balance as the Narendra Modi government sees them as a threat to national security although po
Tigers
Grasslands for the tiger
In an extremely anthropogenic landscape, it has become important to launch a habitat and prey-base restoration programme for recovery of tiger numbers
Translation
Infidel (Kafir, 1938)
West Bengal
Uneasy calm in Darjeeling
West Bengal
Mukul Roy quits Trinamool
Censorship
Fear of ideas
The Sangh Parivar ideologue Dinanath Batra has demanded the removal of a poem by Paash, the revolutionary Punjabi poet, from an NCERT textbook, claimi
Swachh Bharat Mission
Narrow vision
The Swachh Bharat Mission, by focussing on cleanliness and toilet use, leaves out a wide spectrum of urgent urban sanitation issues such as solid wast
The Judiciary
Targeting judges
The transfer and subsequent resignation of Justice Jayant Patel, whose handling of the Ishrat Jahan encounter case did not go down well with the power
Campus politics
Saffron setback
Across campuses, students reject the brand of divisive and conservative politics practised by the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad.
Electrification
Waiting for light
The government’s latest scheme to achieve universal household electrification is high on ambition and sets impractical targets.
Tribute
Tom Alter: Doyen of dignity
Tom Alter (1950-2017) carved a unique space for himself in Hindi cinema and television and played a major role in reviving Urdu theatre with his robus
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