Science
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Train Of Neglect
Jaitley’s Budget offers little to railway passengers or businesses and is marked by a singular failure to address the deep faults in the system that have a critical bearing on safety.
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March 2, 2018
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Intense Battle
Meghalaya is all set to witness a close contest between the ruling Congress and a BJP-regional parties combine.
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March 2, 2018
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Guided By Passion
The Justice Karnan case has highlighted again the urgent need to amend the law and procedure on the exercise of suo motu contempt proceedings by the Supreme Court and High Courts
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June 9, 2017
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A Controversial Career
Since his elevation as a judge to the Madras High Court in 2001, Justice C.S. Karnan has been involved in many a controversy relating to allegations of discrimination against him because he is a Dalit.
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June 9, 2017
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Despair And Unrest in Mexico
There is anger in Mexico over the violence that snuffs out lives but does not get investigated. However, there is little hope that the state will act.
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May 27 2016
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Rural Revolt
Farmers in the BJP-ruled States of Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra,Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, distressed by demonetisation and government inaction, rise in revolt and spoil the Narendra Modi government’s ambitious third anniversary celebrations.
8 min |
July 7, 2017
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Diminishing Returns
Farmers’ organisations in Punjab and Haryana are determined to continue their agitation.
6 min |
July 7, 2017
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Turning Sour?
India’s thriving dairy sector, which provides farmers with an alternative source of income, is beset by challenges, including the government’s new restrictive rules on cattle trade.
8 min |
July 7, 2017
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March Of Hindu Rashtra
The rise in violence against Muslims across the country in the name of gau raksha is full of dire portent when seen against the subtle push the Central and the BJP-ruled State governments are giving to the idea of Hindu Rashtra.
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July 21, 2017
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Debating Secularism
Secularism is a priceless objective to strive for and defend given the grim challenges it faces from non-state actors, often with the connivance of the state.
5 min |
July 21, 2017
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Symbolic Contest
The opposition fails to put up a show of unity ahead of the presidential election, while the BJP attempts to foil the criticism about its uppercaste preferences by choosing a Dalit candidate.
7 min |
July 21, 2017
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Taxing Times
The launch of the Goods and Services Tax amidst great fanfare, but without adequate preparation, marks a continuum with demonetisation and threatens the viability of millions of small and medium enterprises.
10+ min |
July 21, 2017
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Hatred Unleashed
In the past three years, mob violence, including lynching, particularly by cow vigilantes, has almost become a strategy to intimidate Muslims.
8 min |
July 21, 2017
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Promise of dignity
The new Mental Health Care Bill is more humane in its approach than previous laws and has provisions that give the mentally ill a degree of autonomy.
7 min |
September 16, 2016
FRONTLINE
Out Of The Four Walls
Care for the mentally ill should look beyond the “madhouse” and towards inclusive communities with a place for persons with psychosocial disabilities. BY RADHIKA ALKAZI AND AMBA SALELKAR.
9 min |
September 16, 2016
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Ghosts of the Past
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s initiatives to find a solution to the Kashmir unrest may have little effect in the absence of a concrete plan to restore the Kashmiri people’s faith in New Delhi.
9 min |
September 16, 2016
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A Fight for their Land
The mounting opposition to land acquisition for the Mallanasagar project, which threatens to submerge 14 villages, is turning out to be the first serious political challenge to Telangana Chief Minister.
10+ min |
September 2, 2016
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Misadventure in Yemen
The Saudi-led coalition has been fighting a losing battle in Yemen, and Riyadh’s own economic problems make a long-running war there unsustainable.
7 min |
September 2, 2016
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The Myth of Growth
Economic growth in the last 25 years after liberalisation has been riding on a credit bubble. It has not made the manufacturing or exports sector robust, unlike in other high-growth economies. Nor has it delivered any benefits to those steeped in poverty and deprivation.
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August 5, 2016
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All In The Name Of News
In the out-and-out corporate media environment that exists today, market-friendly value systems are a natural consequence and crony capitalist behaviour by media luminaries is par for the course.
8 min |
August 5, 2016
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Cold War cloud
The NATO summit in Warsaw reinforces its collective defence strategy with Russia and China as its targets.
7 min |
August 5, 2016
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Ambedkarites And The Left Should Come Together
Interview with Dalit leader and Gujarat MLA Jignesh Mevani.
8 min |
February 2, 2018
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Narrative Battles
Competing historical narratives about the Anglo-Maratha battle at Bhima Koregaon may have ensured that the memory of the 200-year-old battle remains permanently disputed, but they have also led to a renewed self-assertion by Dalit communities.
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February 2, 2018
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Insidious Fault Lines
Behind the apparent Maratha-Dalit rift in the Koregaon Bhima clashes lies a more sinister mobilisation by Hindutva fringe groups that tap into Maratha grievances.
8 min |
February 2, 2018
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Threat From Within
Vacancies in the Central Information Commission, the backlog of applications and the attempts to weaken the RTI Act raise fresh concerns about the government’s commitment to transparency.
7 min |
January 5, 2018
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BJP: All is not well
The Bharatiya Janata Party is in a state of flux with party veterans poised to become the rallying point for forces opposed to the authority of Narendra Modi and Amit Shah, particularly in the wake of the party’s defeat in the Bihar Assembly elections.
7 min |
December 11, 2015
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G20 Summit: Terror Trumps Economy
It was hoped that the leaders at the G20 summit in Turkey would find a way out of the global slowdown in growth, but the events in Paris left them little time for that.
7 min |
December 11, 2015
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Economic War In Venezuela: Setback For Chavistas
Amid falling oil prices in a worsening economy and an “economic war” being waged by the private sector against the government, Venezuela’s United Socialist Party loses the National Assembly elections.
7 min |
January 8, 2016
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Horror Behind Bars
An exhaustive report based on inspection of Bihar’s 58 prisons tellingly brings to light the denial of the basic human rights of prisoners in the State and points to the need for prison reforms across the country.
10+ min |
January 8, 2016
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COP-21: How The West Had Its Way
The story of the just-concluded COP-21 in Paris is one of clever manoeuvring by the U.S., both before and during the conference,false goals, and compromises by developing countries, all of which raise doubts about the seriousness of the West in fighting the war against climate change.
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