Yogi Adityanath and the Sangh Parivar's majoritarian politics in UP

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06-11-202036 STORIES

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Attacks on foresters increase across the country during lockdown

Attacks on foresters by encroachers and the timber mafia have increased during the COVID-induced lockdown.

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Trace it! A short story translated from Telugu

An unusual story about the dappu and the legendary skills of the one who plays it—the madiga drummer. Traditionally played on ceremonial occasions, to

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Book review: Making of India’s northeastern region

At the present time this book comes as an important pointer to how the region could have been, and still can be, better envisioned, as one of shared p

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QUAD: Strains in the United States’ anti-China alliance in Asia

Mike Pompeo’s call for an anti-China military alliance in Tokyo is being treated with extreme caution by the other Quad members.

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COVID-19 Update

Uttar Pradesh and COVID management: A case of misplaced priorities

The management of the COVID pandemic in Uttar Pradesh leaves much scope for improvement and the State may soon find itself in a difficult situation.

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Armenia-Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan and Armenia in a military conflict over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region

Hostilities break out between Azerbaijan and Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh, a region that has been under dispute since 1917 and has witnessed many cla

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Diary from Trumpland

COVID-19 hits White House but Trump causes anxiety with his uncontrolled adventurism

President Donald Trump contracts and seemingly recovers from COVID-19, but this experience does not stop him from playing down the severity of the dis

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COVID-19 Update

Odisha: A decreasing trend

Odisha seems to be slowly winning the battle against COVID as fewer fresh cases get reported, but ahead of the Puja season the Chief Minister has aske

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COVID-19 Update

Karnataka: Fearing the worst

Karnataka stands second only to Maharashtra in terms of the number of cases, and with both Deepavali and Dasara slated to be celebrated over the comin

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NOBEL PRIZE: Physics

Nobel Prize in Physics honours work on black holes

For providing the theoretical and experimental basis for why black holes should, and do, exist, Roger Penrose is awarded half this year’s Nobel Prize

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COVID-19 Update

Chhattisgarh: A late upsurge

As Chhattisgarh grapples with a sudden upsurge in the number of COVID-19 cases, the State government’s efforts to contain the pandemic have been hampe

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COVID-19 Update

West Bengal: Puja in the time of pandemic

West Bengal stares at a possible surge in COVID cases after the Durga Puja celebrations, but Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is confident that she will

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NOBEL PRIZE: Physiology or Medicine

Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine goes to Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice for discovering the virus that causes hepatitis C

Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice share this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work in discovering the virus

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Remembering Engels’ thoughts on science and socialism on his bicentenary

While studying capitalism, Engels studied science and history of science. The most comprehensive summary of his views on science can be found in Socia

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COVID-19 Update

Andhra Pradesh: ‘Past the peak’

A drop in the number of daily infections and test positivity rate, combined with a rise in the recovery rate, is injecting confidence in the authoriti

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COVID-19 Update

Telangana: Doubts about data

Amid allegations by the opposition that the State government had mismanaged the pandemic, the second national sero-survey indicates that around 12.2 p

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C.P. Chandrasekhar

Public spending for private revival

In a marked departure from its usual stance, the IMF makes a plea for enhanced public expenditure that is debt-financed, but hidden within its recomme

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COVID-19 Update

Kerala: In a vulnerable position

The big concern for the State is whether, despite the government’s best efforts, the sharp rise in the number of COVID-19 patients would cross the thr

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COVID-19 Update

Assam: Caution to the wind

Political rallies and official functions, along with large gatherings at UIDAI centres for government assistance, are hampering the State’s progress i

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Photo essay: Exploring the flora and fauna of upper Nilgiris

Notes from a trip taken in June 2019 to study the upper Nilgiris landscape outside the Mukurthi National Park, a region that deserves greater conserva

A.J.T. Johnsingh, D. Boominathan, N. Ravikumar, K. Vijayakumar, R. Raghunath

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COVID-19 and the danger of complacency

Amid a downward trend in new cases and deaths, the government is shifting its focus on to COVID-appropriate social behaviour, but it must not be lax i

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COVID-19 Update

Tamil Nadu: Curious statistics

The number of new COVID cases in the State in October has remained unbelievably low and steady.

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COVID-19 Update

Maharashtra: Pandemic fatigue?

Even as the Maharashtra government is acutely aware that it will not be able to prevent large gatherings in the imminent festival season, understandin

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Bihar Assembly Elections

Bihar Assembly elections and the Paswan factor

The Lok Janshakti Party, the BJP’s partner in the NDA at the Centre, queers the pitch for another alliance constituent, Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal (Uni

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Pseudoscientific beliefs and world views in the time of pandemic

Even as the world pins its hopes heavily on science to combat the biggest pandemic ever, the spectre of pseudoscience haunts humanity. It appears that

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Social and Gender issues

Discrimination against elected Dalit panchayat presidents reveals entrenched caste-based hate and bias

The recent incidents of humiliation of Dalit women panchayat presidents in Tamil Nadu reveal the extent of caste-based hate, but social media has give

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Farmers' resistance to the farm laws hardens

Farmers continue to agitate against the new farm laws and plan to use the Navaratri festivities to make their voice heard.

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Contract farming as a means of ushering in corporatisation in agriculture

The purpose of initiatives such as contract farming seems to be to create conditions that make it difficult for the small and marginal peasantry to su

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State of minorities

Uttar Pradesh's Muslims bear the brunt of Yogi Adityanath's politics of "badla"

The Uttar Pradesh government has employed brazen, unlawful tactics, including extreme torture and physical violence, to harass and intimidate citizens

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Farmers in Uttar Pradesh protest against farm laws amid grave agrarian crisis

As Uttar Pradesh’s economy staggers amidst the COVID-19-induced lockdown, Yogi Adityanath’s agriculture policies have done little to alleviate the far

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Industrialisation

Tall claims of industrial development in Uttar Pradesh

While Yogi Adityanath continues to speak about turning Uttar Pradesh into a trillion-dollar economy, the ground reality is that the State suffers a la

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Caste discrimination

Casteism and social apartheid the norm in Uttar Pradesh

In Uttar Pradesh, caste-based graded inequality has always been the lived reality. What is different now is the attempt by forces of the ruling dispen

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Profile: Yogi Adityanath

Rabble-rousing yogi

Yogi Adityanath has built up a career in Hindutva politics independently of the RSS and has succeeded in winning the Sangh Parivar’s support because o

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CRIME and Gender Issues

Rape and murder of a young Dalit woman in Hathras and the cremation of law

The rape and murder of a young Dalit woman and the hurried cremation of her body at the dead of night in Hathras district is the reflection of a large

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Uttar Pradesh: Hindutva Laboratory 2.0

In an attempt to cover up its failures on the law and order, economic and public health fronts and contain popular resentment, the Yogi Adityanath gov

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