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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
Cover Story

‘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

Cover Story

The games they play

Gurunath Meiyappan being taken to Crime Branch office in Mumbai on May 24.

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 1

Satyananda Mishra, CIC, pointed out that political parties affected people's lives.

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

The Central Reserve Police Force 'Cobra' team during a combing operation in the Makrana forest in Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh on April 6, 2009.

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

T.M. Soundararajan at a recording theatre in Chennai in December 2008.

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

At a government children's hospital in Allahabad on May 20, a child suffering from diarrhoea.

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

Nazim Hikmet.

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 as one of the leading cast in his last release, Chitrangada.

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

Bankura, West Bengal, 1992: Vina Mazumdar with Santhal women Bari and Malati whom she referred to as her masters.

Vina Mazumdar (1927-2013) was one of the champions of women’s rights and women’s movements in independent India. By INDU AGNIHOTRI

Data Card

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

A section of the industrial complex excavated at the Harappan site at Khirsara in Gujarat's Kutch district. In the middle of the picture is the complex's fortification wall, which turns right and heads towards the citadel complex, in the background. The structures adjoining the fortification wall were added later.

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.

Related: Drawing the locals in

World Affairs

Climbdown on Syria

Lebanese soldiers inspect a site hit by a rocket in Seriine town in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, on June 1. Most of the at least seven rockets fired into the valley from rebel-controlled Syrian territory landed in empty fields.

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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Volume: 30
Issue: 12
Issue Date: 28-06-2013

Khirsara's Harappan Glory

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Korea’s debt mountain

In South Korea, the familiar shenanigans of the globalised financial industry create a credit-driven»

Books

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

Author: Mark Leonard
Publisher: Fourth Estate, HarperCollins
Pages: 164
Price: 8.99 pounds

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