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A saga of struggles

Survival and Emancipation: Notes from Indian Women's Struggles by Brinda Karat; Three Essays Collective, New Delhi, April 2005; pages 284, Rs.595 (har

Inside the Maulana Azad Library at the Aligarh Muslim University.-SANDEEP SAXENA

A flawed move in Aligarh

The Aligarh Muslim University authorities' claim that their new, religion-based admission policy is meant to attract the best of Muslim students draws

The Life Insurance Corporation's corporate office in Chennai.-N. SRIDHARAN

Bringing down an edifice

The entry of foreign players puts enormous pressure on the profitable, efficient and socially responsible public insurance companies of India.

N.M. Sundaram, president, All India Insurance Employees Association.-BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT

Beyond struggles

THE All India Insurance Employees Association (AIIEA), the leading union of public sector insurance workers, has carved an unusual place for itself in

A school with a difference

The Kalkeri Sangeet Vidyalaya is a residential school of music run by a family of French Canadians and caters to the musical and general education of

An exceptional musician

PANDIT PUTTARAJA KAVI GAVAI is likely to enter the Guinness Book of Records for a rather obscure reason. On his 92nd birthday on May 23, he would have

A movement for music

Veereshwara Punyashrama, a unique institution of Hindustani music in Gadag in north Karnataka, uses the power of classical music to bring about econom

A court martial and a woman

Questions are being raised about the fairness of the proceedings of the Indian Air Force's first court martial of a woman officer.

An expressway blocked

The Supreme Court order staying the controversial Bangalore-Mysore Infrastructure Corridor project prevents the cracks in the Congress-led ruling coal

Business as bridge

Wen Jiabao's visit to Bangalore with a high-profile delegation underlines the emerging trade relations and collaboration in science and technology bet

Celebrating service

A world-class centre for the treatment of the mentally ill, the Department of Psychiatry of the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences

A case for subsidised care

THERE is a strong argument for scrapping the system of user-fees in a public hospital such as NIMHANS. From a hospital that used to offer free treatme