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Odisha launches Olympic Values Education Programme in 90 schools

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Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy lauds State’s public health system at Davos

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West Bengal BJP MP Arjun Singh returns to Trinamool after three years with saffron party

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Texas school shooting: 19 children, 2 adults killed

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China: Leaked Xinjiang files likely accurate, say experts

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Syrian refugees fear Turkey will force them back

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Davos 2022: Russia dominates WEF — without Russians

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Kyrgyzstan: Protecting pasture to protect walnut forests

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Book Review: 'Why Do You Fear My Way So Much?' by G.N. Saibaba exhibits a fearless mind

A new collection of letters and poems by G.N. Saibaba brings us the undefeated voice of the jailed professor.

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Gaming addiction

Hunger games: Addiction to mobile games on the rise

Girish Dalvi Malay Dhamelia

Book Review: Laura T. Murphy's ‘Azad Nagar: The Story of a 21st Century Slave Revolt’ asks questions on the price of freedom

Vasundhara Sirnate

Economic Perspectives

Freebie phobia: The BJP’s concerted attack on redistributive transfers

C.P. Chandrasekhar

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'Mi Vasantrao' captures the making of maverick classical vocalist Vasantrao Deshpande

Bihar political churn

Twists and turns: BJP and Nitish Kumar joust in Bihar

Venkitesh Ramakrishnan

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The Sedition Law: Landmark order

TS-ELIOT-LETTERS

'The Waste Land' turns 100

'The Waste Land' by T.S. Eliot: A poem of its moment

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Cover Story: Language Imperialism/Tamil Nadu

A history of resistance: Tamil Nadu's struggle against Hindi imposition

R.K. Radhakrishnan

Political parties across the spectrum oppose the imposition of Hindi in Tamil Nadu. Anti-Hindi struggle in the State dates back to pre-Independence da

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Spectre of brutality: Custodial death in Chennai shocks Tamil Nadu

Ilangovan Rajasekaran

The custodial death of a Dalit youth in Chennai again sparks outrage and highlights the urgent need to humanise the police force.

TS-ELIOT-LETTERS

'The Waste Land' turns 100

'The Waste Land' by T.S. Eliot: A poem of its moment

The significance of ‘The Waste Land’, which turns 100 this year, and the continuing appeal of T.S. Eliot’s oeuvre.

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Gaming addiction

Hunger games: Addiction to mobile games on the rise

Girish Dalvi Malay Dhamelia

Gaming apps on mobile phones seem to be the latest craze in India, but on the flip side an increasing number of ‘addicts’, finding themselves sadd

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Reviving India’s beleaguered creative economy

The creative sector, which holds immense potential for employment generation and a healthier, happier population, suffered a body blow during the pand

Religion & politics

The changing contours of Hinduism

As the Hindutva project continues to import ideas of homogeneity from the Abrahamic faiths to strengthen the idea of a single identity for all Hindus,

Raj Thackeray's 'loudspeaker' campaign targeting Muslims in Maharashtra backfires

Raj Thackeray’s attempt to regain political relevance by targeting Muslims through his loudspeaker campaign does not find any takers in Maharashtra.

Jammu and Kashmir

Mehbooba Mufti on J&K delimitation: ‘Disempowering Muslims’

Interview with Mehbooba Mufti, Peoples Democratic Party leader.

COVID-19 Update

Central government rejects WHO’s estimate of India's COVID deaths

R. Ramachandran

The Indian government has rejected outright the WHO estimate that COVID-19 caused 4.7 million additional deaths in the country in 2020-21 and question

Bihar political churn

Twists and turns: BJP and Nitish Kumar joust in Bihar

Venkitesh Ramakrishnan

With the BJP trying to assert its supremacy in Bihar and Nitish Kumar neutralising its attempts with clear anti-Hindutva messaging and overt gestures

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Uniform Civil Code: BJP's proposal raises concerns of anti-minority measures

T.K. Rajalakshmi

There are genuine apprehensions that a proposal for a uniform civil code coming from the BJP will ultimately be less about uniformity and equality and

Economic Perspectives

Freebie phobia: The BJP’s concerted attack on redistributive transfers

C.P. Chandrasekhar

Although the BJP is against ‘freebies’ in principle, in practice it has been forced to use a version of concessions and transfers to counter the o

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Book Review: 'Why Do You Fear My Way So Much?' by G.N. Saibaba exhibits a fearless mind

A new collection of letters and poems by G.N. Saibaba brings us the undefeated voice of the jailed professor.

Book Review: Laura T. Murphy's ‘Azad Nagar: The Story of a 21st Century Slave Revolt’ asks questions on the price of freedom

Vasundhara Sirnate

An interesting case study on the Kol people of Azad Nagar who bought their way out of slavery, this book talks of how revolutions can become fractured

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Cover Story: Language imposition and North-East India

Centre's aggressive push for Hindi as North-East India's 'link language' threatens to expose ethnic fault lines

Sushanta Talukdar

The Central government’s efforts to push Hindi as the link language has the potential to expose linguistic fault lines in the north-eastern region w

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Cover Story: Pasha Bhai

Dakhni Urdu rapper Pasha Bhai's quest for selfhood in Bengaluru

VIKHAR AHMED SAYEED

Pasha Bhai’s journey from the Muslim ghetto of Neelasandra to the posh clubs of Bengaluru is as much a story about his art as about Dakhni Urdu, the

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'Mi Vasantrao' captures the making of maverick classical vocalist Vasantrao Deshpande

The Marathi film Mi Vasantrao on famed classical singer Vasantrao Deshpande takes us into the very essence of his life.

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Cover Story: Language Imperialism

Language in education: There's power in multilingualism

Rama Kant Agnihotri

To address the issue of language in education, we first need to abandon the elite concept of a ‘pure and standard’ language. All languages are equ

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Cover Story: Language Imperialism

Linguistic imperialism: BJP pronouncements on promoting Hindi spark outrage

T.K. Rajalakshmi

The BJP’s periodic pronouncements on making Hindi the single national language are proof of its inability to understand that India’s enormous ling

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The Sedition Law: Landmark order

The recent Supreme Court directive that puts on hold Section 124 A of the IPC offers a ray of hope despite its weak wording. It acknowledges that the

Sri Lanka Crisis

Gotabaya Rajapaksa: The making and unmaking of a President

R.K.Radhakrishnan

Mahinda Rajapaksa resigned after the May 9 violence in Colombo, but his replacement, Ranil Wickremesinghe, looks more like part of the problem than a

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Interview: Jignesh Mevani

Jignesh Mevani: ‘The BJP sees me as a threat’

Anupama Katakam

Interview with Jignesh Mevani, independent MLA in Gujarat.

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Cover Story: Language Imperialism

Audrey Truschke: ‘Attempts to impose Hindi not new’

Interview with Audrey Truschke, author and activist.

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Cover Story: Language Imperialism

The curious case of Urdu

But if Urdu was invented as late as the 17th century, how does one account for the its use in the compositions of Amir Khusrau, an Indo-Persian Sufi p

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Although the BJP is against ‘freebies’ in principle, in practice it has been forced to use a version of concessions and transfers to counter the o

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Living on the edge

They are river people, whose lives ebb and flow with the waters of the Brahmaputra in a timeless rhythm. But now, hydroelectric projects and homogenis

Siddaramaiah Challenges BJP by Pleasing Lingayats and Veerashaivas

S. Rajendran