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Issue of Kathua and Unnao rape cases

In this issue

11-05-201834 STORIES

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Kathua rape case

Disturbing division

The manner in which events have shaped the discourse around the Kathua rape and murder serves as a grim reminder of the dangers of using religion for

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Unassuming genius

The illustrious painter Ram Kumar (1924-2018) brought the angst of the displaced common man to the canvas, and his minimalist work later lent itself t

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Cosmetic measures

The National Nutrition Mission, with all its hype, is confined very much to fixing targets, and its focus does not seem to consist in addressing the c

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Sexual violence

Shock and despair

As outrageous as the sexual violence against minor girls in Kathua and Unnao are Bharatiya Janata Party leaders’ involvement in the crimes and defence

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Crisis in judiciary

The existence of the power to select colleagues on the bench over which the Chief Justice of India presides or to allocate cases to his colleagues is

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Speech & action

'Kathua' gets law student a suspension

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Religious fault lines

The logical beneficiary of the Siddaramaiah government’s move to recognise Lingayats as a separate religious group should be the Congress. The BJP kno

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Beti Bachao scheme

Stillborn scheme

An audit report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India comes down heavily on the Haryana government for its lax implementation of the Beti Ba

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Interview: Samir Amin

‘There is a structural crisis of capitalism’

Interview with Prof. Samir Amin.

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Local body elections

Violence before vote

The Trinamool Congress prevents opposition candidates from filing nominations in a record number of local body seats in West Bengal, drawing widesprea

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The Loya verdict

The Supreme Court’s judgment dismissing the petitions seeking an independent probe into Judge B.H. Loya’s death in 2014 leaves crucial questions unans

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Anxious and angry

There is a sense of injustice among Muslims over the acquittal of all the accused in the Mecca Masjid blast case.

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In the tiger’s realm

A collective memoir of the tigers and tigresses of Ranthambhore National Park.

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Refugees in limbo

Repatriation of the over one million Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh is yet to begin despite the country having an agreement with Myanmar.

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Massacre at Gaza

Israeli security forces shoot at unarmed, peaceful Palestinian protesters on the Gaza-Israel border, killing nearly 40 of them. Israel’s leaders try t

FL11RUSSIAGATE

Diary from Trumpland

Trump and a scam

Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the U.S. presidential election of 2016 could lead to the exposure of a mas

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Battle royal

In the Karnataka Assembly elections, the national narrative of the BJP as espoused by its star campaigners, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and party pre

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Love and loss

Twenty-one stories that hold a mirror up to the lives of ordinary Tibetans.

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Lula in prison

The sentencing of former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, considered Brazil’s most popular leader, marks the end of a virtual coup by the right-wi

The Habeas Corpus case, 1870

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Siege within

A serious crisis of credibility mars the tenure of the current Chief Justice of India as he seeks to overcome one challenge after another to his moral

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Right-wing reaction

Sinister pattern

The recent rape incidents and right-wingers’ reactions to them are expressions of the dual-faced politics of Hindutva while dealing with gender issues

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Higher Education

Towards a regime of unfreedom

New government measures seek to curb freethinking and expression of dissent in universities, and some of them are apparently aimed at keeping marginal

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Death as deterrent?

Maneka Gandhi’s proposal to amend the POCSO Act to include the death penalty is deeply problematic in a system that could potentially enable offenders

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Minority status

Legal complications

The Karnataka government’s decision to grant minority status to Lingayats has to be considered carefully in the light of legal precedents.

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Unnao rape case

Hall of shame

The way the Yogi Adityanath government has dealt with the Unnao rape case has caused a setback for itself and the BJP, which came to power in Uttar Pr

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Licence to rape?

Many prominent BJP leaders, including legislators, have cases of sexual assault against them, particularly in States ruled by the party.

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Missiles of aggression

Without waiting for independent confirmation that the Syrian government used chemical weapons in the town of Douma, the U.S. with its two staunch NATO

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Breathing new life into labour

From time to time, artists have celebrated the triumph of labour. With their collection of works, a group of art students from Tamil Nadu now turns th

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A crusader’s plight

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Crimes against children

Murder of innocence

The latest NCRB report reveals a shocking rise in the number of rapes and other crimes against children.

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C.P. Chandrasekhar

Services for growth?

Letters to the Editor

Ekta manch that aims to divide

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