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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

24-02-202342 STORIES

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Editor’s Note

China is being a bit of a schoolyard bully. The question is: what should India do?

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.

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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

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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.

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

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‘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

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‘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

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

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.

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Zhou Bo: ‘The Asian century is already here’

In conversation with the retired Senior Colonel, academic, and China Forum expert.

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

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.

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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.

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A bite of history

The book is as much a deep-dive into the breathtaking smorgasbord of Calcutta’s cuisine.

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FLQ: The Frontline Quiz

Get those grey cells working!

Sumant Srivathsan

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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

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

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Letters

Readers write in.

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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

New books on the shelves

An award-winning novel in translation, the storied life of the nightingale of India, and more.

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Anuradha Bhasin: ‘Fears of a demographic change valid’

In conversation with the veteran journalist and author of ‘A Dismantled State’.

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

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

The Indian ease with translation and multilingualism

It cannot be understood by an ideology that thinks of every “other” as an enemy within.

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

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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

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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

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Of love, loss, and redemption

An accomplished historian’s novel with a well-researched historical backdrop and narrated with ease and fluency.

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Against the grain

The book dives into the actual reality of life in Kashmir, disproving the Centre’s official narrative of normalcy.

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KLF: It happens only in Kerala

On the staggering diversity of the Kerala Literature Festival.

Abhirami Girija Sriram

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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.

The Palm Tree: A Konkani story in translation

Translated by Vidya Pai, recipient of the Dr P. Dayananda Pai Vishwa Konkani Anuvad Puraskar 2022.

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Adoor Gopalakrishnan: ‘Caste allegations are purely fictional’

Interview with the noted film-maker and former chairman of KRNNIVSA.

Accusations continue to fly in Kerala film institute row

KRNNIVSA faces allegations of improper admissions and caste-based discrimination.

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.

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.

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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

Air strikes in Gaza City

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.

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

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.

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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