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36 STORIES
Violence in Afghanistan
Shades of Vietnam
The bloodletting in war-ravaged Afghanistan continues unabated even as the U.S. and the Taliban engage in peace negotiations. U.S. military experts be
Trump against socialists
War on socialism
Trump’s tirade against “socialists” in the U.S., such as Bernie Sanders and several new Congress members advocating public education and health care,
Music and society
Looking back, looking ahead
An interview with the singer T.M. Krishna.
Wildlife
India’s big seven
The diversity in India’s jungles is spectacular. But seven iconic species are a big draw in wildlife tourism.
N. Shiva Kumar
India
Book on Karunanidhi in Tamil from Frontline
Social justice on screen
Caste on celluloid
Anubhav Sinha’s film Article 15 is a near-realistic portrayal of caste oppression in contemporary India.
India
Makeover move
Maharashtra coastal road project
Nowhere road
The Maharashtra government seems determined to deal with Mumbai’s traffic woes by pushing through the coastal road project despite serious environment
Cafe Coffee Day
CCD founder V.G. Siddhartha's death: Brewing mystery
The mysterious death of Café Coffee Day founder V.G. Siddhartha raises several questions. Was the financial position of his successful ventures shaky?
Legislation
Triple Talaq Bill: In the guise of justice
There are legitimate concerns not only about the Bill criminalising triple talaq but also about the way the government went about passing it in the Ra
Human rights
Amendments to the Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993: Trampling on rights
Activists accuse the government of undermining the autonomy of human rights commissions by amending crucial sections of the Protection of Human Rights
Chargesheet against JNU teachers
Charge-sheeting JNU teachers: Stun and subdue
The charge-sheeting of 48 JNU teachers for a protest they participated in a year ago, under rules framed for government employees, is widely criticise
Crime
Unnao rape case: Corrupt nexus
It was money, muscle power and political might that enabled Kuldeep Singh Sengar and his accomplices to lord it over their fiefdom in Unnao and get aw
Crime
Unnao rape case: The story of an unravelling
The case reflects the collapse of law and order in Uttar Pradesh.
Towards Hindu Rashtra
RSS' agenda on Kashmir in action
The BJP uses its brute parliamentary majority to fulfil the RSS’ long-pending demand to annul Jammu and Kashmir’s special status and take the first st
Interview: Sitaram Yechury
Abrogation of Article 370: Tyranny of the majority, says Yechury
Interview with Sitaram Yechury, CPI(M) general secretary.
World response
Kashmir: World watches, cautiously
Pakistan comes up with a strong reaction, but the rest of the world has been cautious and muted in its response.
Interview: M.K. Raina
Removal of Article 370: I have never felt this kind of alienation, says theatre personality M.K. Raina
Interview with M.K. Raina, veteran theatre actor, director and film-maker.
Subcontinental Geopolitics
India-Pakistan: Regional equations
Imran Khan manages to bring up the Kashmir issue during his visit to Washington, but the Trump administration reiterates that it will play a robust ro
Human Development Index of Kashmir
Kashmir's Development statistics: Nailing a lie
Government data on the HDI of Jammu and Kashmir do not support the Centre’s justification for scrapping Article 370. The State is not very backward; r
For Political gain
History of betrayals in Kashmir
In abrogating the provisions of Article 370, the Centre has disinterred a corpse in order to bury it again. Only a widely uninformed Indian civil soci
Historical perspective
Amit Shah’s ‘history’
The Sangh Parivar’s pathological hatred for Nehru drives it to distort his record. If Kashmir is a part of India, it is almost entirely because of Neh
Abrogation of Article 370 unconstitutional
Kashmir: Murder of insaniyat
The amendment of the provisions of Article 370 is constitutionally invalid; it flies in the face of pledges made by India to the Kashmiri people and t
Ground Report
Kashmir under siege
Kashmir stands choked, resembling a battlefront, with barbed wires, army convoys and snipers everywhere.
C.P. Chandrasekhar
When pessimism rules
The government’s focus is not on economic revival that leads to legitimacy but on quelling dissent that loss of legitimacy leads to.
Tribute
Sushma Swaraj: Compassionate to the core
Sushma Swaraj (1952-2019), the bright star of the Sangh Parivar, was known for her awesome political and individual connect and humanitarian streak.
Books
The scourge of violence
A timely, eloquent series of interviews that interrogate the correlation of violence with gender discrimination, white intolerance, unilateral state p
Interview: Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami
‘The RSS wants to change the demographics of the State’
Interview with Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami, CPI(M) MLA.
Lead Story
Agony of Kashmir
The abrogation of Articles 370 and 35A of the Constitution, which conferred special status on Jammu and Kashmir, and thedraconian moves that followed
Books
Mapping herstories
A kaleidoscope of conversations with 17 Tamil women on their writerly selves and how they pursue their craft against all odds.
Medicine
High BP and high risk of heart attack
Aerospace
Lasers tell the distance between spacecraft
Physics
Solar panel that unfurls automatically
Books
Woven with dreams
A delectable anthology of Urdu ghazals in Roman transliteration (and translation) of poets from the late sixteenth century to the present.
Letters
Letters to the Editor
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The saint, the song, and the social revolution
Of Magadh, Manjhi, and Musahars
‘BJP is the fountainhead of corruption’: Sitaram Yechury
Caught in a saffron storm
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19-04-2024
Tastes of the earth
Did Periyar call for a genocide of Brahmins?
‘Enlightenment’: A Marathi story in translation
Close encounters with the third kind
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05-04-2024
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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22-03-2024
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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