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02-02-201849 STORIES

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The selfie monkey

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Interview: Ishrat Jahan

‘I have fought many battles alone’

Interview with Ishrat Jahan, one of the key petitioners in the triple talaq case, who recently joined the BJP.

Ellenborough’s Somnath Temple

Historical Significance

Pillar of strength

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Dressing up public banks for the market

FL02TRUMP

Whimsy in the White House

Donald Trump is the most extreme version of democracy being reduced to image rather than substance.

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‘There is a misconception about triple talaq’

Interview with the women’s rights activist Flavia Agnes.

‘Against the spirit of the Quran’

Going slow on Reliance-SBI payments bank

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Being Dalit, and a woman

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John Bellamy Foster

‘Socialism a necessity for human survival’

Interview with John Bellamy Foster, Editor of Monthly Review.

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Fight for survival

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Welfare of S.C. and S.T.

Broken promises

Data show that the National Democratic Alliance government has not fulfilled its promises with regard to the welfare of the Scheduled Castes, the Sche

FL02UIDAIPROTEST

Shooting the messenger

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Urban shift

The rapid pace of urbanisation in recent times is projected to continue in the coming years, throwing up significant challenges for policy makers.

Probing questions

FL02SEATURTLE2

Reptile sex ratio turns turtle owing to global warming

FL02SELFING

Selfing in worms causes genome loss

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Selective concern

While the demand for the abolition of talaq-e-biddat has the support of almost every political party, the limited framework of the Muslim Women (Prote

One language in five scripts

FL02MARATHARALLY

Caste Equations

Insidious fault lines

Behind the apparent Maratha-Dalit rift in the Koregaon Bhima clashes lies a more sinister mobilisation by Hindutva fringe groups that tap into Maratha

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Bombay Riots of 1992-93

Gory winter

Bombay in December 1992-January 93 was Hindu Rashtra in action.

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Devious designs

After applying pressure on TV channels and news organisations to show it in a favourable light, the BJP government is now targeting PTI, the nation’s

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Setting standards

The Justice B.N. Srikrishna Commission of Inquiry set a standard for all judicial commissions in the manner in which it fearlessly indicted those in p

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Yuva Hunkar Rally

A new platform

Jignesh Mevani’s rally in New Delhi brings fiery youth leaders on a single platform to mount a challenge to the BJP and fight against atrocities on Da

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Interview: P.L. Punia

‘Start of a second social justice movement’

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Bold and beautiful

The poems encapsulate and vividly describe the existentialist dilemma of Kashmir as a realm and Kashmiris as an ethno-sociopolitical entity.

Supernova depicted in Kashmir rock art

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Hysteria on history

How ancient hatreds are invented and the politics of identity and community, of religion, ethnicity and gender has begun to occupy the space vacated b

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Andrei Stenin photo contest

FL2SUNLIGHT

Health & fitness

Sunlight reduces arterial stiffness

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Dalit defiance

The Bhima Koregaon violence and the spirited response to it from Dalits bring into focus the churning in their communities and their growing resistanc

Hope amid the ashes

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Interview: Jignesh Mevani

‘Ambedkarites and the Left should come together ’

Interview with Dalit leader and Gujarat MLA Jignesh Mevani.

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Contesting claims

Narrative battles

Competing historical narratives about the Anglo-Maratha battle at Bhima Koregaon may have ensured that the memory of the 200-year-old battle remains p

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Interview: Prakash Ambedkar

‘The OBCs will support us’

Interview with Prakash Ambedkar.

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Memory and meaning

For Dalits, Bhima Koregaon represents the promise of emancipation and social justice, and the recent violence against them indicates an upper-caste in

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Fighting spirit

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Change of guard

The leadership change in the African National Congress could mean challenges ahead for South African President Jacob Zuma.

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The Revolution and its impact

An important contribution to an understanding of the Russian Revolution’s long-term implications for democratic politics and its relevance for struggl

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The beggar woman

FL02TRUMP

The freedom and the right

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Waiting for the script

In a political climate marked by popular disillusionment and contempt for mainstream parties’ opportunism and corruption, Rajinikanth attempts to sell

FL02MAMATA

Mamata’s Nandigram moment

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1993 Bombay Riots

Politics of hate

The illiberal “new” India’s foundations were laid with the demolition of the Babri Masjid and the communal riots that followed.

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Bitter legacy

FL02RAJA2017

Making sense of a judgment

The 2G case has fizzled out, with the trial court refusing to accept evidence of a conspiracy. Now it is up to the Modi government to take it forward

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Surprise protest

Economic hardship and the interference of hostile foreign powers result in short-lived protests in the poorer quarters of Iranian cities, sending out

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