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36 STORIES
Reality check
Against all odds
The conditions in which the armed forces work and the government’s record of providing rightful benefits to their personnel leave much to be desired.
Politics
Caught on tape
Engineering defections in Karnataka
Price of deceit
Former Chief Minister and BJP State leader B.S. Yeddyurappa’s eagerness to topple the H.D. Kumaraswamy government in Karnataka by engineering defectio
Report from Kashmir
Living tragedies
From cricket fan to fidayeen, Adil Ahmad Dar, who carried out the deadly attack on the CRPF convoy in Pulwama, exemplifies the alienation of hundreds
Kashmir militancy
Militant surge
The Centre’s “Operation All Out” appears to have escalated home-grown militancy instead of containing it. In 2018, the number of local militants in th
Interview: A.S. Dulat, former chief of RAW
‘The Kashmir issue is a convenient whipping boy’
Interview with Amarjit Singh Dulat, former chief of RAW.
Political murders in West Bengal
Blood and gore
The murder of a Trinamool MLA in full public view highlights the deteriorating law and order situation in West Bengal.
Interview: Omar Abdullah
‘Direct fallout of policy failure’
Interview with National Conference leader Omar Abdullah.
Books
The untold story of Sikkim
This book is by an intelligence officer who was closely involved with the manoeuvres that led to the merger of Sikkim with India. It explains why the
Rafale deal
Devil in the details
The CAG report on the Rafale deal remains silent on several crucial issues, and its meek acceptance of the government’s line of thinking is another tr
Science & Technology
Galaxies galore
NGMA Palekar controversy
Art and dissent
Amol Palekar’s experience at the NGMA and certain decisions by the gallery are indicative of the current regime’s intolerance of dissent and disdain f
Books
Fitting tribute
A collection of essays published in honour of Utsa Patnaik, one of India’s leading economists, which mirrors her passionate concern for the welfare of
AMU sedition case
Loyalty test
The sedition charges against AMU students show that the university continues to fall prey to right-wing mobs who seize every opportunity to demonise i
Rice production
Staying ahead
India is set to lead the rice export market in 2019 too, aided by a rise in production.
Thailand
Palace intrigue
The Thai King bars his sister from contesting the March elections quoting royal tradition, but he does not seem to be constrained by the fact that he
National capital region
Elusive solution
A two-judge bench of the Supreme Court refers to a larger bench the dispute between the Delhi government and the Centre over controlling the National
Tamil Nadu election alliances
Marriage of convenience
With much at stake for both parties, rivals All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam form practical alliances ahead of t
Gujjar agitation
On a tightrope
Rajasthan’s newly elected Congress government tries to do a fine balancing act in pacifying Gujjars, who can be crucial in at least five parliamentary
Shiv Sena-BJP alliance in Maharashtra
Alliance of rivals
After initial bluster, the Shiv Sena agrees to an electoral pact with the BJP for the Lok Sabha elections.
Cover Story
Pulwama and after
The terror strike in Pulwama, the deadliest faced by the security forces in 30 years, and its aftermath expose the repeated failures of the Narendra M
CAG report
A whitewash job
The CAG resorts to selective use of facts and adopts double standards in order to provide a “clean chit” to the Modi regime.
India
‘We ought to agree to disagree’
Interview with Amol Palekar.
Venezuela
‘The coup is over’
Venezuelan leader Jorge Arreaza says that his government prefers negotiations and peace and wants the permanent coup efforts directed by the United St
Citizenship Bill
A tug of war
The BJP is determined to push the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, but regional outfits in the north-eastern States continue to put up a united front aga
Prashant Bhushan interview
‘Another nail in the Rafale coffin’
Interview with Prashant Bhushan, lawyer-activist.
Rafale deal
How not to buy a plane
The Rafale saga has all the ingredients of a potboiler: a politician-civil servant nexus, tweaked standards, and the subversion of procurement procedu
AAP Delhi performance
Mixed bag
The Aam Aadmi Party and its government in Delhi have not done enough to coalesce people’s initial fervour towards them into long-term solidarity.
Pulwama attack
Terror next door
With the recent JeM terror attack in Pulwama, relations between India and Pakistan are in for some turbulent times.
Martyr status
Martyrs to apathy
Exhibition
A seaside spectacle
A walk among the art works of the “Sculpture by the Sea” event in Sydney, the world’s largest annual open-air exhibition.
Romain Maitra
C.P. Chandrasekhar
Twisted logic
A research paper arguing for flexible labour regulation fails to stand up to critical evaluation that exposes its agenda and method crafted to suit a
Love of Tagore
Tagore in Bangladesh
The love of Tagore remains one of the chief cultural unifiers between the two Bengals; so does the love of the Bengali language, as Tagore predicted i
Letters
Letters to the Editor
Lead Story
Terror next door
With the recent JeM terror attack in Pulwama, relations between India and Pakistan are in for some turbulent times.
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An unexpected twist in Arunachal Pradesh
Manipur’s divided election
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Kashmir: Valley of contention
Tastes of the earth
Did Periyar call for a genocide of Brahmins?
‘Enlightenment’: A Marathi story in translation
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Farewell Appappan
Why a proposed private port in Karnataka’s Honnavara faces stiff resistance from fisherfolk
India’s oscillating opposition and the dynamic evolution of protest politics
The crisis of the secular opposition
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Why the tiger-human conflict rages in Bandipur and Nagarahole
Minimum Support Price: A question of how, not why
Fali S. Nariman (1929-2024): A life dedicated to the Constitution’s promise
Farmers’ protest: It’s a battle against servitude
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