Governments of the “free world” rush to support Israel even as untold horrors and cruelties unfold in Gaza.

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17-11-202330 STORIES

Despite India’s low ranking in the Global Hunger Index, Modi government is hesitant to address the issue

Why is it reluctant to conduct a household consumption survey?

T.K. Rajalakshmi

New books on the shelves

A novel set in Portuguese Goa, a memoir of a Tamil doctor born in British India, and much more.

Letters

Readers respond.

How BJP’s yoga misadventure in Maldives paved the way for China to assert its dominance

And India has lost its strategic influence in the archipelago nation.

R.K. Radhakrishnan

Globalisation is slowly but surely unravelling

The best example is that of the US, which is increasingly adopting protectionist measures that discriminate against foreign firms.

C.P. Chandrasekhar

Unfamiliar earth: Review of ‘Roman Stories’ by Jhumpa Lahiri

Many of the stories seem perfunctory, like exercises in sympathy. They are impeccable as pieces of creative writing but they do not move the reader.

Anusua Mukherjee

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