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From China, With Love
Chinese smartphones offering the price-conscious India a fascinating new range of products right now
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April 25, 2016
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Cures That Make A Big Killing
People exploded in anger at Bengal’s notoriously coercive hospitals. Now, a new law will take them on.
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May 08, 2017
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The Valley's New Curriculum
Girl students pelting stones at the police in the heart of Srinagar marks a shift in the Kashmir unrest’s visual profile
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May 08, 2017
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Is There A Future For AAP?
AAP was not just another party. It came not as a regional force or a lobby—it deigned to be a universal alternative to everything. If the promise is fading, it must examine the mirror, not just the EVM.
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May 08, 2017
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Stone Tools In Modern History
There is now a problem bigger than militants on India’s hands: protests beyond the separatists’ control
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May 01, 2017
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Kashmir On The Brink, But Nowhere To Go
As ordinary Kashmiris take over the fight on angry streets, Pakistan sits back and fine-tunes its new policy
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May 01, 2017
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Fraud Of The Fairness Dream
In a country not comfortable with its own genes, fairness creams sell a lie to pander to a deep-seated self-loathing
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May 01, 2017
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Alia Bhatt: A Rare Star Who Can Laugh At Herself
Alia Bhatt's gamine charm cradles talent and the nous of self-deprecation.
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August 24, 2015
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Arundhati Roy: 'I See gender As A Spectrum...'
Dont beat em, join em. That's the cooperative thinking among craft brewers who work together to ensure one anothers success. In fostering a spirit of collaboration, they've created a powerful bloc that is showing steady growth and challenging established beer giants. It's a lucrative model - one that other producers of artisan or locally sourced goods would be wise to follow.
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August 24, 2015
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A Realist Takes On An Illusionist
Nitish has delivered results for everyone to see. But Modi's patter holds some pull.
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September 28, 2015
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Nepal, A Model Of Modi's Neighbourhood Policy
Nepal goes 'secular'. But India fumes at the constitution's 'unfair' federal structure.
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October 5, 2015
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Hindu India Or Digital India? Choice Is Yours
They're joined at the hip: the superficial modernity of Digital India and a deep, unspoken 'Hindutva'
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October 12, 2015
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Reading Old Ashes: Muzaffarnagar Riots
A probe report on the Muzaffarnagar riots gives the SP regime a clean chit.
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October 12, 2015
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6 Major Myths About Dropped Calls
It's a problem affecting the common man, as the PM said. Here's getting to the root of call-drops.
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October 12, 2015
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No More Condom Ads!
A prudish I&B plans to restrict condom ads on TV, but will it defeat the purpose?
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October 26, 2015
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Bihar Election: Is The Cha Cutting Enough?
Modi plays the Bihar game with seasoned politicians, and finds his tactics backfiring.
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November 9, 2015
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Amaravati: Abode Of The Immortals
Some 30,000 acres of farmland is Naidus new sketchpad on which he is furiously drawing up his capital city.
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November 9, 2015
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A Bihari Story Of The Haar
The BJP has paid the price for its inability to understand Bihar and its remarkable people.
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November 23, 2015
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Tollywood: The Sheets Are Always White
Tollywood is going bold, but are the films the better for it? Or is it just....
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December 7, 2015
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'How Many' Is Your Caste?
A long­overdue measure to redistribute political power, Karnataka’s caste census is a first in India
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July 25, 2016
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Balancing The Wheel
With polls pending, Khaleda Zia in jail and Hasina pampering Islamists, Bangladesh is on edge
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March 12, 2018
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Hunger, Bloodthirst, Murder
An adivasi’s lynching sparks an artistic outpouring that only discomfits activists
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March 12, 2018
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AAP Among Unequals
Angry, Alternative Politics, they called it. But has AAP failed to redeem its pledge? Is it too angry, and not alternative enough?
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March 12, 2018
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Immovable And Rusted Objects
Obstructionist bureaucracy needs an injection of specialists
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March 12, 2018
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A Broom In The Wrong Place
There’s talk of President’s Rule, but, for better optics, the BJP will more likely let Delhi’s AAP government hoist itself with its own petard
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March 12, 2018
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A Party That Lost Its Fig Leaf
AAP grew overambitious; its leader anyway tended to be autocratic. The party’s slide began when it became unscrupulous. Will it reform its ways?
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March 12, 2018
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Scent Of The Lotus Bloom
It’s not just about dashing moves, their motive has to reach people. Modi knows it.
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January 09, 2017
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Broomstruck In Bathinda
Akalis are seen as useless amid economic distress; the Congress is patchily popular. It’s the AAP many in Punjab are turning to.
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January 09, 2017
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Woof Of Nepotism
Public outcry grows over a ‘job-giving clique’ around CM
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March 19, 2018
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Scent Of A Phul Bloom
After almost a quarter century, Uttar Pradesh politics is witnessing an almost impossible pheno­menon: the Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party have joined hands in the poll arena.
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