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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:
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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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February 12, 2018
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Punjaap Tripped On A Fuse
An ambitious AAP flirted with the wrong ­sentiment in Punjab last year—separatism
6 min |
February 12, 2018
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Modicare: Insurance Policy 2019
Jaitley promises succour, belatedly, to aggrieved sectors. But is it too thin a supply of oxygen for India’s distressed?
7 min |
February 12, 2018
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Modi Still BJP's Trump Card
After the tough Gujarat polls and ­Rajasthan drubbing, in the duo’s last mile dash, Modicare, MSP, even DeMo will all be ammunition to snipe at the Congress’s scam skeletons. But BJP insiders agree it is not an easy task.
6 min |
February 19, 2018
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Modi-Yogi Bhakts Aplenty, But Jobs?
Besides Muslims, Dalits are the only vocal section that has turned against the BJP in UP
8 min |
February 19, 2018
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Where Party Has Withered Away
A tie-up with Congress would have yielded zilch, given the total absence of CPI(M) cadres in the Bengal countryside
9 min |
February 19, 2018
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I Would Love To Carry The Bequest Of My Dida, But With My Own Persona
In a freewheeling interview, Raima Sen looks back at her journey as an actress, her memorable roles in Hindi and Bengali cinema, sibling rivalry at home with Riya Sen, her mother’s foray into politics and, above all, her legendary grandmother’s decision to turn a recluse at the height of her fame.
8 min |
February 19, 2018
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Festoon Of Schemes Dangling
Siddaramaiah is sure about retaining power, banking on an array of welfare projects
5 min |
April 16, 2018
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Keep It Simple, Stupid
Focussing on citizens’ behaviour and segregation at source brings results
5 min |
April 23, 2018
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Not Exactly Virgin Soil To Plough
BSY is Karnataka BJP’s face in the battle for power. The party doesn’t want signs of its past mistake to re-emerge.
5 min |
April 23, 2018
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Service, Then Jubilation
Young Indians are plucking gold at the CWG at will. Tougher challenges await them at August’s Asiad.
6 min |
April 23, 2018
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The Beneficial Distributaries
Cauvery may have been the stated cause but DMK has a more mundane agenda: increase its Delta votes
6 min |
April 30, 2018
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Vachana Versus Vachana
Theology and politics? Questions of self-definition roil Lin gayat country ahead of polls.
8 min |
April 30, 2018
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Raptors Of Hatred
An eight-year-old girl’s gory end took J&K’s ruling coalition to the brink and back
9 min |
April 30, 2018
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Default Sinkholes
The regulatory tool seeking to minimise damage from the menace of mounting NPAs was given new teeth, but it will be a long and hard road to recovery
5 min |