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Jyoti Basu speaking at a CPI(M) rally in Kolkata on the occasion of the 16th party congress in 1998. He made game-changing contributions at the political, ideological, and administrative levels in West Bengal and a significant qualitative impact at the national level.

The genius of Jyoti Basu

Published in the issue dated February 12, 2010.

Dr B.R. Ambedkar. No other national figure in Indian politics in the 20th century matched his scholarly orientation.

Relevance of Ambedkar

From the Editor’s Column in the April 27, 1991, issue, assessing Dr B.R. Ambedkar’s role in Indian politics, in his birth centenary year.

Christian Barnard, Heart Surgeon. PHOTO: THE HINDU ARCHIVES

A celebrity of world medicine

Interview with Dr Christian Barnard.

What makes for political stability?

POLITICAL India stands at a crossroads, where something different from the patterns that have dominated national politics over the past two decades ca

Tibetan rioters wreck a car at Bakhor Square in Lhasa on March 14.-ANDREAS STEINBICHLER/AP

The question of Tibet

Reflections on development, human rights, and politics in Chinas unique autonomous region.

Attorney General Soli Sorabjee.-

Opinion and Caveat

Attorney General on HPCL & BPCL Disinvestment.

President Chandrika Kumaratunga with Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe.-GEMUNU AMARASINGHE/ AP

The peace process - a reality check

The perception of a political breakthrough in the Sri Lankan peace process is seen to be misplaced if reality testing, which addresses six hard questi

THE IMPORTANCE OF CHOMSKY'S IDEAS

NOAM CHOMSKY is the great polymath of our age, although given his own attitude to heroes and hype, it is more or less certain that he will dissent fro

MALGUDI'S CREATOR

The life and art of R.K. Narayan (1906-2001).

POLITICS AFTER DISQUALIFICATION

The mid-2001 State Assembly election outcomes will bring no cheer to the BJP, but are likely to boost the Congress(I)'s political stock. In Tamil Nadu

'The best window of opportunity since the war began'

President Chandrika Kumaratunga's

N. Ram interviews President Chandrika Kumaratunga.

Arundhati Roy, writer and activist

Scimitars in the Sun: N. Ram interviews Arundhati Roy on a writer’s place in politics

In an exclusive interview, the Booker winner speaks out on big dams, India’s judicial system, and writer’s role in society