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Does India have the political nous to meet China’s truculence with responses that straddle diplomacy, trade, and military acuity?
In this issue
24-02-2023
42 STORIES
World Affairs
Is there a way out of the troubled India-China relationship?
Territory and Tibet remain at the heart of contention, with neither willing to cede its position.
Kanti Bajpai
Politics
Will Pradyot Manikya Debbarman emerge as kingmaker in Tripura?
The scion of the royal family perhaps holds all the aces with his new TIPRA Motha party.
Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay
World Affairs
India and China caught in vicious cycle to secure the Himalayan heights
They can keep trying to match each other’s capabilities but that will only increase chances of war.
Manoj Joshi
Politics
Struggle within AIADMK in focus ahead of Erode East Assembly byelection
The February 27 byelection was necessitated by the death of Congress MLA Thirumahan Everaa.
R.K. Radhakrishnan
Politics
‘BJP will not accept demand for Tipraland’: Sushanta Chowdhury
The State Cabinet Minister thinks the BJP will secure a comfortable majority in Tripura.
Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay
Politics
‘People want to remove the BJP from power’: Jitendra Choudhury
The general secretary of the CPI(M) in Tripura says there is no democratic atmosphere in the State.
Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay
World Affairs
Editor’s Note
China is being a bit of a schoolyard bully. The question is: what should India do?
Vaishna Roy
Politics
Tale of two ‘governments’ in Delhi as AAP vs LG battle intensifies again
Constitutional experts are equally divided over the dispute regarding the division of authority.
Ashutosh Sharma
Politics
Brand Rahul Gandhi is ready. But does anti-Modism limit its appeal?
As the Bharat Jodo Yatra comes to an end, many fence-sitters are waiting to see what he does next.
Anando Bhakto
World Affairs
Zhou Bo: ‘The Asian century is already here’
In conversation with the retired Senior Colonel, academic, and China Forum expert.
John Cherian
Politics
Pradyot Manikya Debbarman: ‘BJP did not give me anything in writing’
In conversation with the TIPRA Motha chairman on the upcoming Tripura Assembly election.
Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay
World Affairs
Tactic of denial over Chinese occupation of Indian territory could prove costly
The Indian government’s response has been one of ‘disengagement’, of timidity, and playing it safe.
Sushant Singh
World Affairs
Efforts of China to gain strategic foothold in South Asia clearly visible
India is not alone in its neighbourhood to grapple with the dragon’s reach.
V. Anand
Books
Anuradha Bhasin: ‘Fears of a demographic change valid’
In conversation with the veteran journalist and author of ‘A Dismantled State’.
Anando Bhakto
India
Out at sea: Behind the scenes at Veraval
Fishing trips of migrant fishermen from the port in Gujarat are stuff of adventure and endurance.
Aayush Chandrawanshi
India
Hire and fire at will: What do global tech lay-offs mean for India?
Will 2017’s nightmare year for India’s IT industry return in 2023?
T.K. Rajalakshmi
Columns
The Indian ease with translation and multilingualism
It cannot be understood by an ideology that thinks of every “other” as an enemy within.
Ganesh Devy
Columns
Can there be something such as an honest critic?
The critic is a persona largely missing from India’s classical music and dance scene.
Prathyush Parasuraman
Books
A bite of history
The book is as much a deep-dive into the breathtaking smorgasbord of Calcutta’s cuisine.
Shuma Raha
Other
FLQ: The Frontline Quiz
Get those grey cells working!
Sumant Srivathsan
Books
Chuden Kabimo: ‘Translated books influenced me a lot’
Song of the Soil is the English translation of Kabimo’s debut novel in Nepali, Fatsung.
Anusua Mukherjee
Environment
Tamil Nadu’s first biodiversity heritage site Arittapatti needs your attention
Locals fear the richly deserving BHS tag, while safeguarding the area, may entail livelihood loss.
M. Mathivanan,
T. Ganesh
Letters
Letters
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Books
Rachna Books beckons the book-loving tourist in Gangtok
Song of the Soil, a book it had published, was shortlisted for the JCB Prize for Literature in 2022.
Anusua Mukherjee
Books
New books on the shelves
An award-winning novel in translation, the storied life of the nightingale of India, and more.
Science & Technology
New form of ice with density close to liquid water raises new questions
On earth, ice is mostly crystalline, but elsewhere in the universe, it is likely to be amorphous.
R. Ramachandran
Science & Technology
Resonance in supercooled colliding molecules observed for the first time
The findings suggest that scientists could one day steer and control certain chemical reactions.
R. Ramachandran
Science & Technology
nOPV2: A new hope in battle against vaccine-derived polio
The new vaccine will reduce the risk of vaccine-derived outbreaks of polio.
R. Ramachandran
Books
Of love, loss, and redemption
An accomplished historian’s novel with a well-researched historical backdrop and narrated with ease and fluency.
Tabish Khair
Books
Against the grain
The book dives into the actual reality of life in Kashmir, disproving the Centre’s official narrative of normalcy.
Anando Bhakto
Travel
KLF: It happens only in Kerala
On the staggering diversity of the Kerala Literature Festival.
Abhirami Girija Sriram
Art
What the CIA did in Tibet is now on display at Kochi Muziris Biennale
An exhibition highlights how Tibetans trained by the US fought Chinese forces to free Tibet.
Ranjana Dave
Literature
The Palm Tree: A Konkani story in translation
Translated by Vidya Pai, recipient of the Dr P. Dayananda Pai Vishwa Konkani Anuvad Puraskar 2022.
Pundalik Naik
India
Adoor Gopalakrishnan: ‘Caste allegations are purely fictional’
Interview with the noted film-maker and former chairman of KRNNIVSA.
Anna Mathews
India
Accusations continue to fly in Kerala film institute row
KRNNIVSA faces allegations of improper admissions and caste-based discrimination.
Anna Mathews
India
Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh: The bahubali neta
Although the former WFI head has stepped down temporarily, the BJP will probably go easy on him now.
Ismat Ara
India
Female wrestlers change script by speaking out against WFI chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh
Sexual harassment complaints are common in the Indian sports fraternity but tend to be hushed up.
Ismat Ara
Economy
Without growth or welfare, Budget 2023-24 is one that curtails social spending
One expects welfare spending to spike before elections. But this Budget goes against the grain.
C.P. Chandrasekhar
World Affairs
The far right rises again in Israel as Benjamin Netanyahu returns to power
Israel’s new regime wants to bury the two-state solution and annex the West Bank.
John Cherian
India
Christophe Jaffrelot on 2002 Gujarat riots: ‘The ghosts have never left me’
Jaffrelot was one of those the BBC interviewed for the documentary “India: The Modi Question”.
Anupama Katakam
Columns
A new phase of censorship creep in India
A proposal to amend the IT Rules 2021 and the ban on a BBC documentary are part of a larger trend of Internet censorship, growing since 2014.
N. Ram
Obituary
Remembering B.V. Doshi (1927-2023): Visionary architect and institution builder
For the legendary architect, architecture was a celebration of life.
Durganand Balsavar
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