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Doctors And Their Devices
Imported medical devices are often indispensable. But 1,000 % mark-ups in prices? Hospitals, traders and doctors are playing a fast, smooth game, pushing patients towards financial ruin. Will the government ever wake up to these immoral medical practices?
10+ min |
June 19, 2017
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The Monk Who Stung A Hornet
The Dalai Lama’s Arunachal visit worsens Sino­Indian ties, as neighbours reap the benefits of their competing largesse
7 min |
April 17, 2017
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New-Found Mahatma Love
The PM’s appropriation of Gandhi is helping the BJP shape a new political persona
5 min |
April 17, 2017
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Vaccine Vendors' Greed Gone Viral
Immunisation is a nexus controlled by big private vaccine makers, mostly foreign, that decides your baby gets 15 shots more for the doctor to make money. Even if the vaccine is useless—not to talk of the huge mark-ups.
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April 17, 2017
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Shompa Sengupta
Tales of women who fought against taboos and gender bia­ses, not to mention poverty and illiteracy, to emerge successful businesswomen abound in Calcutta, women who, without so much as the rudiments of training, have beaten competitors by dint of innate intelligence and hard work.
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October 02, 2017
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A Prayer Sent Out Loudly
Mamata Banerjee’s token gestures towards Muslims have caused a communal divide without really empowering the community
6 min |
October 16, 2017
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Optical Poetry
Modern theatre students discover the benefits of classical training in the Koodiyattam tradition
7 min |
October 16, 2017
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Playboy Diary
Playboy diary
3 min |
October 16, 2017
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RaGa Road To Gujarat Navsurgence
Rahul hits BJP with slowdown and scandal with faultless timing, but can it be termed a Congress reawakening?
6 min |
October 23, 2017
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'Gujarat Polls Will Be The Turning Point'
Congress general secretary in-charge of Gujarat, Ashok Gehlot, tellsBula Devi his party will defeat the BJP in the state and Rahul Gandhi may become Congress president before the year ends.
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October 23, 2017
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Reconnect Switch Is On
The CM is on an outreach mission, sensing a drain in people’s support. Opposition dubs it political stunt.
6 min |
October 23, 2017
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Depressing Window To Middle Class
Weak private investment, automation and redundant skills are gnawing at white-collar jobs. A political hot potato is in the moulding.
8 min |
October 23, 2017
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Many Quarters Of The Patriarch
Keeping a ‘small house’ for the ‘other’ woman is a long-standing practice in Tamil Nadu, embraced and legitimised by former CMs
5 min |
October 23, 2017
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At The Mainland's Stolid Defence
Cruelly barred from joining cricket’s mainstream for long, Northeastern states have decided on a final fling of the ball
6 min |
September 11, 2017
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'The Uttarakhand Mafia Has Gone Into Hiding'
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat has inherited huge challen­ges—corruption, exodus from border villa­ges, under-development and more. In an interview with Bula Devi, he spells out the measures he has taken to overcome these challenges and put the state on the road to progress. Excerpts:
5 min |
September 18, 2017
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The Tamil Gag Raj
A cartoonist’s recent arrest is no exception, leaders in Tamil Nadu have always pounded the press.
6 min |
November 20, 2017
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The Munsif's Mother Tongue
Reform of the lower judiciary is imperative, but a national service will run roughshod over the federal principle, social justice and linguistic rights.
5 min |
November 20, 2017
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Super Toil Across Years Begets Power
India, still a ‘balancing power’, is central to Trump’s NSS. To reap its benefits, we need long work on core interests.
8 min |
January 29, 2018
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Nationalism Made In USA
Defence cooperation is part of India’s increasing subordination to US geostrategy
3 min |
January 29, 2018
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‘The Congress Didn't Respect My Dad After His Death'
Less than three years after its founding, the YSR Congress fell short of power in Andhra Pradesh by just 2 per cent of the votes in 2014 . Its leader Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy, in the middle of a padayatra ahead of the 2019 election, speaks to Outlook about the circumstances of his dramatic departure from the Congress, the problems facing the state today and what he intends to do.
6 min |
January 29, 2018
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The Glue Of Contradiction
Both the BJP and the PDP know it’s best to carry on together despite pulling J&K in opposite directions
5 min |
May 07, 2018
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Mutter Needs More Courage
Angela Merkel’s smaller victory means sterner challenges. Then there’s the AfD threat.
6 min |
October 09, 2017
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The Crooked Public Schools Road
Unrecognised and illegal, budget schools run by slumlords fleece and fool working-class parents
10 min |
October 09, 2017
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Only-For-Profit Schools
How private schools work around the bar on profiteering and rake in the moolah
5 min |
October 09, 2017
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'Police Chased Us Even Into Our Hostel Rooms. We Want An Apology From The V-C'
BANARAS Hindu University’s campus is one of the largest in Uttar Pradesh. It is accessible through several gates, the most renowned and biggest of which overlooks Lanka, a locality in Varanasi. It is at this gate that hundreds of students of BHU, mostly women scholars, were protesting since 6 am on September 21. It is from this historic site that they were lathicharged by police and chased into their hostels. Videos of the all-woman crowd being beaten by police have since gone viral, sending shockwaves through the country.The women students had come out in protest after an incident of sexual harassment on the campus, for which the BHU administration blamed the victim. She was the first to step out to protest against the unequal treatment of women in the university and the lack of basic safety norms there. She was soon joined by other hostel residents, and as she shaved her head in protest, became a symbol of all BHU women students’ demands.
6 min |
October 09, 2017
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A Novel Catches The Bus To Wagah
Indian publishers are fertile ground for most ­Pakistani writers who have few options back home.
7 min |
October 09, 2017
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Oedipus Backwards
Thin on patient detail and emotional heft, Pamuk’s hero rushes from scene to scene. Major questions are asked, but they don’t illuminate our readerly selves.
3 min |
October 09, 2017
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Ripples Turn Into Waves
Changed public sentiment puts Dhaka in a cleft stick on hasty repatriation of Myanmar refugees
8 min |
February 12, 2018
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Nero Plays A Veena Called Saraswati
A sudden spurt in Haryana’s crime points to an administration that lacks in political will and is pressured by caste politics. The CM, though, will ‘remain’.
7 min |
February 12, 2018
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Panth And A Foreign Hand
A new real threat of Khalistani ­terror, fuelled and funded by foreign gurudwaras patronised by liberal white politicians, has revived memories of a blood-drenched era of Punjab’s history
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