Cover Story

Getting away with murder

October 30, 2010: Former Gujarat Home Minister Amit Shah waves to his supporters after his release from Ahmedabad Central Jail. He was released after the Gujarat High Court granted him bail in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case.

Matter of routine

Malkangiri massacre

Nailing a lie

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Rampura

Remembered village

Paddy fields in Kodagahalli. Srinivas notes how agriculture was the main activity in the village then.

Essay

Never kill a cow in kaliyuga

Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan of Madhya Pradesh offering a cow food during Govardhan Puja at his residence in Bhopal on October 31.

LEGISLATION

Divisive demarcation

Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal.

Punjab

Sidhu’s spin

Cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu at his first press conference in Chandigarh on September 8, after forming Awaaz-e-Punjab.

Public health

Zika control, the Ugandan way

The Zika virus was first identified, in 1947, in the blood sample of a rhesus monkey in the Zika forest of Uganda. The forest, now owned by the Uganda Virus Research Institute, has for decades been at the centre of a massive project to study viruses and the mosquitoes that carry them. Here, a caretaker and tour guide posing in the forest.

West Bengal

Sister Nivedita’s house

Margaret Noble, better known in India as Sister Nivedita.

Afghanistan

Military quagmire

May 25, 2014: President Barack Obama greets U.S. troops during a surprise visit to Bagram airfield near Kabul. Kabul has welcomed the U.S. decision to keep thousands of troops in Afghanistan past 2016, vowing to respond to a resurgent Taliban

Letter from America

Standing Rock’s last stand

Members of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and their supporters opposed to the Dakota Access Pipeline protesting at the site of construction near Cannon Ball, North Dakota, U.S., on September 3.

Industry

A coup in the House of Tatas

Ratan Tata and Cyrus Mistry at an art exhibition in Mumbai to celebrate the 175th birth anniversary of Jamsetji Tata on February 21, 2014.

Industry

Trusts and control

A view of Bombay House, the headquarters of the Tata group of companies.

Uttar Pradesh

Advent of Akhilesh

Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav begins the Samajwadi Party's Vikas Rath Yatra in Lucknow on November 3.

Essay

Limits of diplomacy

Land Acquisition

Assault on tribal rights

NTPC's mining operations being carried out under police protection in Barkagaon block in Hazaribagh, Jharkhand, after villagers in the area objected to them.

Media

Award for Frontline journalist

R. Ilangovan, receiving the award and citation from Justice K.N. Badsha, former judge of the Madras High Court. Others are (from left) Justice S. Vimala, judge of the Madras High Court; G.M. Akbar Ali, former judge of the Madras High Court; Justice Shivaraj V. Patil; and N. Chenbagaraman, former Inspector General of Police, Tamil Nadu.

Philippines

Pivot to China

Filipino tribal groups and activists shout slogans as they burn a mock U.S. flag near the Malacanang presidential palace in Manila on October 21. Hundreds of left-wing activists who took part in the protest urged President Rodrigo Duterte to take punitive action against policemen who rammed a van on some of them in a brutal dispersal near the U.S. Embassy.

The Maldives

Trouble in paradise

President Abdulla Yameen.

Arunachal Pradesh

Shrinking green cover

Firewood consumption is so high in Arunachal Pradesh that the existing forests cannot withstand such pressures for long.

Short Story

The saga of Sarosadevi

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Volume: 33 Issue: 23 Issue Date: 25-11-2016

Columns

ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES

C.P. Chandrasekhar

Uncertain media future

The proposed merger between the telecom major AT&T and the media company Time Warner will be scr»

PREOCCUPATIONS

Jayati Ghosh

Colombia’s search for peace

Although the peace agreement was rejected in the referendum, the peace process in Colombia is not ov»

UNMEDIATED

Sashi Kumar

Nationalism cannot be a TV season

News channels wantonly whipping up hysteria about nationalism is despicable, whether it is done for »

Books

  • Author: Vibhuti Narain Rai
  • Publisher: Penguin
  • Pages: 180
  • Price: Rs.399

Demystifying democracy

World of insects

For new approaches

Chasing the middleman

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Ambedkar's Legacy

Address by N. Ram at the 75th Convocation of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. Read more »
Women as proxies in politics

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Post Offices as Banking Institutions

A report that seeks to integrate threads of India’s financial inclusion dynamics and recognise the role post offices could play with their homespun technology. Read more »

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