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Indian cricket in deep crisis
The Indian Premier League has come to symbolise the corruption that has overwhelmed Indian cricket, and those who stand exposed include cricket administrators, players and IPL team owners. By VIJAY LOKAPALLY
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‘It has become a real business’
Interview with Ashis Nandy, scholar of psychoanalysis and Indian society and author of 'The Tao of Cricket: On Games of Destiny and the Destiny of Games'. By AJOY ASHIRWAD MAHAPRASHASTA
Banking
The slow regress in banking
The RBI, through its latest guidelines on private banks, seems to have attempted to ring-fence banking activity so as to ensure regulatory control and keep the number of new entrants low and their intent clean.
Art
Dialogues with history
Subodh Kerkar’s installations are meditations on the colonial past, nature and history where the boundary between art and life stands disrupted. By K. SATCHIDANANDAN
Guatemala
Genocide trial reset
Former dictator Jose Efrain Rios Montt’s conviction for genocide is annulled by the High Court. The country’s constitutional court then upholds the annulment and orders a retrial. By JOHN CHERIAN
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The games they play
It is time to clean up Indian cricket. If the BCCI is unwilling to act, it is for other stakeholders to do so. Unfortunately, they are guided by self-interest or are toothless. By SURESH MENON
Dubious status of BCCI
Corporate push to make betting legal
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RTI debate
CIC vs parties
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The Central Information Commission decides that political parties are public authorities under the Right to Information Act and directs them to designate information officers and appellate authorities as required under the Act. BY V. VENKATESAN in New Delhi
Extremism
Flawed vision
At the root of the UPA government’s continued failure to defeat left-wing extremism is the absence of a clear assessment of the ground reality and a larger political vision. By VENKITESH RAMAKRISHNAN in New Delhi
Obituary
Voice of Tamil
Whether it was melodies, lyrics loaded with political statements or philosophy, folksy tunes, or a raga-based song, T.M. Soundararajan’s (1923-2013) singing was unparalleled. His voice captured the nuances and majesty of the Tamil language completely. By B. KOLAPPAN
The Nation
A step ahead
India has successfully developed its first-ever truly indigenous vaccine, Rotavac, against the organism rotavirus that is responsible for many cases of diarrhoea. However, the Indian medical community is divided over the issue of including vaccines against rotavirus in the UIP. By R. RAMACHANDRAN
Drawing the locals in
A Trinamool victory
INSAF suspended
Behind Aruna Roy’s exit
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Behind Occupy Taksim Square
Capital and conflict in Turkey
The Taksim Square occupation movement in Turkey makes explicit the structural contradiction between the ruling elites with their neoliberal leanings and the aspirations of the common people. This was foreseen in the 1950s and the 1960s by Nazim Hikmet, arguably Turkey's greatest modern poet. By RAZA NAEEM
Obituary
Different and daring
Rituparno Ghosh (1963-2013) changed the course of Bengali cinema and paved the way for a whole new generation of film-makers to break away from the mould and give expression to their own visions. BY SUHRID SANKAR CHATTOPADHYAY
Obituary
Catalyst for women’s struggle
Vina Mazumdar (1927-2013) was one of the champions of women’s rights and women’s movements in independent India. By INDU AGNIHOTRI
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Seeds of fortune
With a turnover of over Rs.15,000 crore, the Indian seed industry ranks fifth in the world. Given the rising population and consumption of food in the country, it should climb further up the ladder further.
Archaeology
Discovering Khirsara’s Harappan glory
Excavations in Khirsara village in western Kutch reveal a "major industrial hub" and trading centre of the mature Harappan phase. By T.S. SUBRAMANIAN in Khirsara. Photographs by D. KRISHNAN, Photo Editor, The Hindu.
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World Affairs
Climbdown on Syria
As ripples from the Syrian conflict threaten to destabilise pro-Western regimes in the region, the West seems to finally see sense in a negotiated solution. By JOHN CHERIAN
An open contest
Work woes
Trouble for Erdogan
Looming civil war
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Khirsara's Harappan Glory
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C.P. Chandrasekhar
The slow regress in banking
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Jayati Ghosh
Korea’s debt mountain
In South Korea, the familiar shenanigans of the globalised financial industry create a credit-driven
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Intellectual ferment in China
On the development of a new Chinese worldview and seeing China as a powerhouse of ideas that could influence the world. By A.G. NOORANI
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