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Rage Against Refugees
Rage against refugees The sudden rise in hostility against the Rohingya and calls for their deportation underscore the urgent need for a refugee protection
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May 12, 2017
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Disturbing Division
The manner in which events have shaped the discourse around the Kathua rape and murder serves as a grim reminder of the dangers of using religion for politics.
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May 11, 2018
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Towards A Regime Of Unfreedom
New government measures seek to curb freethinking and expression of dissent in universities, and some of them are apparently aimed at keeping marginalised communities out of institutions of higher learning.
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May 11, 2018
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Salman Khan's Hit And Run Case: Trial and Errors
The actor Salman Khan’s acquittal in a 2002 hit-and-run case raises more questions than it answers.
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January 8, 2016
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Valley of fear
A war-like situation heightens the uncertainty in Kashmir.
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October 28, 2016
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Bharatiya Janata Party: Right On Top
The Narendra Modi-led Indian Right’s march continues with major victories in the latest Assembly elections, presenting a host of challenges before other players in national politics.
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March 31, 2017
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Tightrope Walk
The new government will have to balance two opposing demands that dominated the election process: to retain Manipur’s territorial integrity and to integrate all Naga-dominated areas.
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March 31, 2017
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Up In The Air
A record voter turnout does not ensure a clear winner in Goa, and both the Congress and the BJP are keen to form the next government.
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March 31, 2017
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Jobless In Panipat
The city’s shoddy yarn industry, said to be the largest in Asia, is still in the dumps as yarn manufacturers struggle to survive after demonetisation forced them to shut shop and lay off workers and GST resulted in demand compression and compounded their misery.
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November 24, 2017
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Changing Mood
The informal mechanism of textile trade in Varanasi often means that traders pay GST on goods they have sold on credit.
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November 24, 2017
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Torn To Shreds
Tirupur’s knitwear industry is yet to bounce back fully.
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November 24, 2017
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Wrecking the System
The liquidity crisis of unprecedented dimensions that the Modi government has unleashed shocks the economy, drives people to despair and ruin and threatens consequences that have not been fully fathomed yet.
10+ min |
December 9, 2016
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All Pain for the Majority
The impact of the measures on the farming community, the poor and the lower middle classes was hugely underestimated by the political establishment, sundry pundits, the media and a large section of the untutored or sycophantic elite.
10 min |
December 9, 2016
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After the shock
The beating to cash-driven sectors like gold and real estate notwithstanding, Indian industry is gung-ho about the Prime Minister’s decision to derecognise notes.
7 min |
December 9, 2016
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BJP's Show
The Shiv Sena gets more seats in the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai, but the BJP emerges the winner in the civic elections in Maharashtra.
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March 17, 2017
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Caste On Top
Caste has always been important in Gujarat’s electoral politics. Now, with several social groups speaking up for their rights and against perceived injustices, caste equations have infused uncertainty into the 2017 Assembly elections.
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December 8, 2017
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Sweet Promise
Narendra Modi’s promise of a sweet revolution and a blue revolution to enhance the incomes of farmers and fishermen in Gujarat is an unconvincing chimera, given the allegations of environmental violation by the Adani Group’s Mundra port project.
7 min |
December 8, 2017
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A Losing Game
With Reliance Payment Bank, a joint venture between Reliance Industries Limited and SBI, set to begin operations in December, there is widespread concern that the new venture will cause the downslide of the country’s largest public sector bank.
8 min |
December 8, 2017
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Power Games
Nitish Kumar’s power play in Bihar, while dealing a crippling blow to the entire mainstream opposition in India, sends out the unmistakable message that the BJP has started a no-holds-barred campaign for the 2019 elections.
9 min |
August 18, 2017
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Solar Betrayal
The rocky terrain of Madhya Pradesh’s Neemuch district has emerged as the largest solar power-generating hub in India, but the nomadic communities that have lived there for generations find themselves dispossessed of land and reduced to abject poverty.
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August 18, 2017
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Blundering Along
The opaque manner in which the government has handled demonetisation has fatally damaged the framework of economic governance.
10+ min |
January 6, 2017
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The Trump Team
This is a government of fables. It is appropriate that it is led by Donald Trump, a man made more by the world of entertainment than by the world of governance.
6 min |
January 6, 2017
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Triple Talaq: A Monstrous Wrong On Justice Syed Mahmood
There is no Quranic sanction for triple talaq at all. Muslims of India cannot avoid or evade the stark choice that faces them. Do they want their law to be based on the Quran and the hadith or on misinterpretations by British judges?
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January 6, 2017
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Back To The Booth
Kenyans are hoping for the best in the presidential election that has been scheduled for October 17 after the Supreme Court nullified the election that was held in August because of electoral irregularities.
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October 13, 2017
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Legal Challenges
When the government declared high-denomination currency notes as not being legal tender in 1978, it did so through an Ordinance.In contrast, the November 8 and subsequent notifications came without any legislative support.
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December 23, 2016
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Solider of Socialism
Fidel Castro, who defended the values of the revolution that he led in his country and extended his moral and material support to the forces of progress wherever they found themselves up against dictatorship and imperialism, walks into history.
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December 23, 2016
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whipping up a frenzy
the hindutva brigade has taken it on itself to play political games with the “surgical strikes” across the loc.
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october 28, 2016
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hollow claims
the official narrative around the “encounter killing” of eight simi members in bhopal throws up more questions than answers and the state’s credibility has taken a beating because of its claims and conflicting statements. by akshay deshmane in bhopal
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november 25, 2016
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Struggling For A New Status
The demand of Lingayats for a separate religious tag, delinked from the Veerashaiva Hindu faith, is shrouded in political intrigue. Even as Hindutva’s aggressive adherents find themselves in a dilemma, the Congress hopes to gain electorally from fuelling the demand.
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September 15, 2017
FRONTLINE
The Chimpanzee Lady
Jane Goodall, whose pioneering work on chimpanzee behaviour gave primatology a new direction, calls for urgent measures to save the planet and its wildlife.
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