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39 STORIES
Physics
Making objects “invisible” in fluids
Physics
Lasers to weld ceramic
Film Review
Batla House: Through a filter
The film Batla House endorses uncritically any police action to ensure the nation’s safety and discredits civil society’s demands for institutional ac
Literature
The red Nissan
Poignant and earthy, this story is about appearances and entanglements in a diasporic Goan family from the point of view of a visiting native of Goa.
Diary from Trumpland
An Israeli boycott
Israel has banned two members of the United States Congress, Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, known for their strong views on Israeli occupation of Pales
Korean peninsula
Tensions in the east
South Korea’s demand for war reparations invokes a strong response from Japan, but the U.S. intervenes to ease the situation.
Venezuela
In defiance of an embargo
The U.S. imposes a total economic embargo on Venezuela, the latest in a series of efforts to dislodge the popular elected government there.
Dalit Landlessness
The Shamlat lands of Punjab
Punjab is one of the States with the lowest proportion of landowning Dalits.
Development Issues
Dams and danger
The Cabinet Committee’s clearance for the Dibang Multipurpose Project and the National Green Tribunal’s go-ahead for the Lower Subansiri project in Ar
Sardar Sarovar Dam
Sardar Sarovar dam: Water woes
Controversies regarding the Sardar Sarovar dam project continue as Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh fight it out over the Narmada waters.
Dalit Landlessness
The importance of giving land to Dalits
Elimination of landlessness among Dalits can boost the national economy and resolve the problem of unemployment.
Communalism
Pehlu Khan lynching case: Getting away with murder
A Rajasthan court acquits all the six accused in the Pehlu Khan lynching case but the victim’s family is determined to continue its fight for justice.
Communalism
Muzaffarnagar riot cases: Subverting justice
The Yogi Adityanath government has systematically gone about withdrawing cases against BJP leaders. The latest instance involves cases relating to the
Jaipal Reddy
Jaipal Reddy: Wedded to ideology
Throughout his eventful and challenging political life, Jaipal Reddy (1942-2019) stuck to his Nehruvian socialist secular ideology and never compromi
Congress party
Congress' missed opportunity to elect a new chief
The Congress party opts for Sonia Gandhi as interim president, dashing hopes raised by Rahul Gandhi that a non-Gandhi could lead the party.
West Bengal
Another Mamata aide joins BJP
Journey to Mount Kailash
Himalayan trek
The journey to Mount Kailash is a unique experience strewn with challenges that are a test of human endurance befitting the reward—a view of the sacre
Moon Mission
Chandrayaan-2 now in lunar orbit
Kerala floods
Monsoon in Kerala: When hills tumbled
Intense rain and man-made causes such as excessive quarrying and construction activity in ecologically sensitive areas in the Western Ghats wreak havo
Kerala floods
Kerala floods: The climate factor
The increased variability and uncertainty driven by global warming have made monsoon climate more unpredictable in the future.
Dr Abhilash S.
Kerala Floods
Extreme weather events: ‘Tough time ahead’
Interview with Dr V. Venu, Relief Commissioner and Convener of the Kerala State Disaster Management Authority, and Principal Secretary, Revenue and Di
Essay
Courts & politics
A recent judgment by an English court against British arms exports to Saudi Arabia on the grounds that the government had not assessed the risk of the
Interview: Tapan Sen, CITU
Lending for the sake of lending makes no sense, says Tapan Sen
Interview with Tapan Sen, general secretary, CITU.
Interview: Ashish Harsharaj Kale, FADA.
Automobile industry: ‘The average slump in the dealership sector is in double digits’
Interview with Ashish Harsharaj Kale, president of the Federation of Automobile Dealers’ Associations.
Auto component industry
All the concessions are for the super rich, says A. Soundararajan of the CITU
Interview: Ghulam Ahmad Mir, Jammu and Kashmir Congress.
‘BJP’s policies have led to a spurt in militancy’
Interview with Ghulam Ahmad Mir, president of the Jammu and Kashmir Congress.
Jammu & Kashmir
Kashmir: Simmering state
A combination of political marginalisation of Kashmiris and a perceived insult to their religious sentiments cements a ruler vs the ruled perception i
INX Media case
Arrest of P. Chidambaram: Pending questions
The Central Bureau of Investigation has arrested and secured the police custody of former Union Finance Minister P. Chidambaram for five days in the I
Slowdown and automobile dealership
Raw deal for automobile dealers
Books
House by the sea
A skilfully crafted book that paints a vivid portrait of the past as it unfolded in the life of the Governor’s house in Tranquebar and its people.
Books
The practical economist
The biography of the economist Ajit Singh is also the history of the tactics neoclassical economists have adopted all over the world to drive out real
C.P. Chandrasekhar
Spectre of recession
The inequality generated by decades of neoliberalism and the resentment it has caused across the world have in recent times led to uncertainties that
Automobile production units
Workers bear the brunt of manufacturing slowdown
Even as industry laments the reduction in its rates of profit, the brunt of the slowdown is being borne by the blue-collar workforce, mainly the tempo
Taxes on motor vehicles
Unjustified hike in Jammu & Kashmir
Slowdown in automobile manufacturing
Brake on livelihoods in the automobile manufacturing hub in Pune
Workers are the worst hit as the slowdown deepens in the automobile manufacturing hub in Pune.
Economic slowdown
The auto component industry in Chennai on a downward spiral
The auto component industry in Chennai is facing an unprecedented slowdown and many major units have announced temporary lock-outs and voluntary retir
Letters
Letters to the Editor
Economic slowdown
Signs of a crisis in the automobile industry
The Narendra Modi government’s response to the Indian automobile industry’s worst slump in two decades reflects an inability to recognise the slowdown
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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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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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