COVER STORY
My testimony to a return, after seven years, to Kanhupur, a sea-gnawed coastal village in Kendrapada district of Orissa
Outlook Magazine - 25 August 2014
Independence Day Special
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Anticipating majoritarianism’s danger, Ambedkar advocated safeguards for Dalits
Pakistan faces August 14 with foreboding as righteous forces tear at each other over the state’s future path
Not a book to just skip through. You are so spellbound that you just don’t want to miss a word
A village—and its quirky, humdrum lives—is dragged into townhood. Nambisan’s scalpel probes every growth.
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Anticipating majoritarianism’s danger, Ambedkar advocated safeguards for Dalits
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Pakistan faces August 14 with foreboding as righteous forces tear at each other over the state’s future path
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Business in bitesizes
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Entries to the £30,000 Sunday Times Short Story Award are open till September 26.
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Not a book to just skip through. You are so spellbound that you just don’t want to miss a word
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A village—and its quirky, humdrum lives—is dragged into townhood. Nambisan’s scalpel probes every growth.
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But will the JAC pass muster with the states?
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The adoration-denigration cycle is the lot of those on pedestals
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TRAI moves to put media houses in order
OTHER STORIES
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I shall return to the House, sign my name and hope my arrears will be paid with retrospective effect and without any cuts
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Malappuram, carved out for a religion, now holds a key to Kerala
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Will the majoritarian project subvert the very democratic tradition that has brought the BJP to power?
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In 2012, student groups made a dietary—and political—demand: beef on the menu
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A common Gondi and a venerable Ravana will hopefully forge a Gond cultural identity
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A historical walkthrough of how majoritarianism has made appearances in idea and practice....
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The states of the nation: news, headlines, gossip, rumours, things we learnt
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No, the food bears no semblance to the runny yellow dal and coarse rice that goes for jail food in Bollywood.
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The Delhi-based musician is keen to introduce music education to every child in India.
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Usual slapstick, loud and hammy acting, cringingly incorrect humour and corny lines.
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Because leftists have allegedly distorted how we interpret the past, it does not mean the PM should give encouragement to beliefs which are laughable.
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The emeritus professor of politics at Oxford on the importance of dissenting voices
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Partition has been exposed as a bad idea, since ’47
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General secretary of the Sri Lankan ultra-nationalist Buddhist organisation Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) on charges of being the mastermind of many anti-Muslim riots
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Rajapaksa’s Sri Lanka stubbornly excludes minorities
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Saudi challenge: Wahabism in a new neighbourhood
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The editor-in-chief of <i>Rai al-Youm </i> on the Israel project and the massacre in Gaza.
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This is the stage where all Muslim tropes live
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Forget BJP, the Congress must curb its communalism
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The dissenting judge is a powerful voice
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The Constitution is armoured with the ‘basic structure’ doctrine, so it will be insurmountably difficult to establish a Hindu Rashtra
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There is a broader—and deeper—meaning to democracy. Part of that ideal is the idea that every tessera in the mosaic can sparkle.
