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Drowning in scams
The UPA-II government has set a record of sorts in corruption scams and administrative malfeasance, but its leadership remains apparently unmoved. By VENKITESH RAMAKRISHNAN
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Small players, big games
Karnataka chooses
Southern shock
The shoddy performance of the BJP during its five-year rule ensures a stunning victory for the Congress in Karnataka. By RAVI SHARMA
Chit fund scam
Deposit and despair
The financial fraud involving the Saradha Group, in which lakhs of rural people lost their hard-earned money, puts Mamata Banerjee’s government in West Bengal in a tight spot. By SUHRID SANKAR CHATTOPADHYAY
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Defensive mode
Tamil Nadu
Stoking caste flames
Hostilities between Dalits and Vanniyars erupt again in Tamil Nadu after the Pattali Makkal Katchi’s attack on a Dalit village. By T.S. SUBRAMANIAN
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‘A dangerous strategy’
Natural Resources
Price on water
The UDF government in Kerala proposes yet again to allow private companies to exploit public water resources for private profit. By R. KRISHNAKUMAR in Thiruvananthapuram
Cover Story
Age of graft
1
Corruption tends to be greater in periods when there is a state-engineered redistribution of wealth in favour of a few at the explicit or implicit expense of the many. Liberalisation is one such period. By C.P. CHANDRASEKHAR
Shackles on CBI
Bribe and blood ties
Small players, big games
Pits of sleaze
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Karnataka chooses
Southern shock
1
The shoddy performance of the BJP during its five-year rule ensures a stunning victory for the Congress in Karnataka. By RAVI SHARMA
India-China
Defused by diplomacy
4
The recent tensions between Indian and Chinese troops along the Line of Actual Control end without a shot being fired thanks to calm diplomacy. By JOHN CHERIAN
Tamil Nadu
Stoking caste flames
1
Hostilities between Dalits and Vanniyars erupt again in Tamil Nadu after the Pattali Makkal Katchi’s attack on a Dalit village. By T.S. SUBRAMANIAN
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‘A dangerous strategy’
India & Pakistan
Death and honour
The honours showered on Sarabjit Singh following his murder in a Pakistani prison raise the question whether all this was the Indian state’s reward for a spy/terrorist for a job well done. By ANITA JOSHUA in Islamabad
Chit fund scam
Deposit and despair
2
The financial fraud involving the Saradha Group, in which lakhs of rural people lost their hard-earned money, puts Mamata Banerjee’s government in West Bengal in a tight spot. By SUHRID SANKAR CHATTOPADHYAY
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Defensive mode
Jammu & Kashmir
Power point
1
The State points to the Indus Water Treaty for its severe power deficit and demands compensation from the Centre. By SHUJAAT BUKHARI
The Nation
Bill for hawkers
1
ON May 1 the Union Cabinet approved the Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Bill. The revamped Bi...
A life rendered 'extinct'
Death in the gutter
Sivakasi’s shame
Death on a wire
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Mohd Afzal Guru
A life rendered 'extinct'
The right to counsel begins from the moment of arrest. From the time Afzal Guru was arrested in 2001 to the filing of a charge sheet in court, he had no lawyer—a fact that goes against the Supreme Court’s own observation on the need for defence counsel. By A.G. NOORANI
Manual scavenging
Death in the gutter
1
The death of two workers in a sewage tank in Chennai revives the call for the eradication of manual scavenging. By R. ILANGOVAN
Nature
Ecological hotspot
The ocean currents give Galapagos its balmy climate. Charles Darwin was surprised by the untropical weather in these islands located in the heart of the tropics. Text & photographs by SUDHA MAHALINGAM
Birds of Galapagos
Natural Resources
Price on water
The UDF government in Kerala proposes yet again to allow private companies to exploit public water resources for private profit. By R. KRISHNAKUMAR in Thiruvananthapuram
Amrita Sher-Gil's modernity
Magyar connection
Amrita Sher-Gil’s modernity was shaped not only by her engagement with the Indian reality, but also by her early exposure to Hungarian literature and music. By Margit Köves
Folk arts in peril
Shadow play
2
To adapt to changing tastes or not. That is the dilemma facing Tamil Nadu’s folk theatre as television and cinema are edging it out even in its traditional strongholds, the villages. By R. ILANGOVAN in Salem
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A koothu enthusiast
If the world were 100 people
World as 100
This edition of Data Card is inspired by the "If the world were 100 people" concept that the website www.100people.org came up with when the world population reached the seven-billion mark. It is expected to cross nine billion by 2045. Can the planet take the strain? By R. SURESH
World Affairs
Enter Israel
Israel attacks Syria’s armed forces in Damascus, openly involving itself in the neighbouring country’s domestic politics, even as the West uses the bogey of chemical weapons to threaten Syria. By JOHN CHERIAN
Collapse of safety
A promise breached
Coup of sorts
From exile to jail
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Birds of Galapagos
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Sashi Kumar
True archivist of cinema
Director Shivendra Singh Dungarpur’s biopic on P.K. Nair, Celluloid Man, is a long yet fascinating g
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PREOCCUPATIONS
Jayati Ghosh
Privatising the ICDS?
The Central government’s proposal to hand over the supply of supplementary nutrition to NGOs in the
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Books
Mapping Sahmat
The book traces how Sahmat, an avant-garde experiment, offers an aesthetic of resistance in times of fundamental transition. By ANIL BHATTI
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Edited by Jessica Moss and Ram Rahman
Publisher:
Chicago: The Smart Museum of Art; Distributed in India by Tulika Books and Sahmat, New Delhi.
Pages:
300 + 450 illustrations
Price:
Rs.2,000
For radical freedom
What the Romans can teach us
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Pilgrims’ India
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