A few states show the way by notifying the right to service
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COVER STORY
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Our democracy is creaking, but it works—nominally at least. What it needs is not dilution, but deepening.
Assailed from all sides, does the UPA really hope to recover its ‘image’ by muzzling online dissent?
Chairman of the parliamentary standing committee which has drafted the anti-graft Lokpal Bill, responds to the criticism levelled against him
Having concentrated his energies on a strong Lokpal bill, Arvind Kejriwal expresses disappointment at the current shape of the draft bill.
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Our democracy is creaking, but it works—nominally at least. What it needs is not dilution, but deepening.
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Great Firewall of China keeps netizens corralled
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Social sites begetting violence is a poor ruse
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Sibal’s actions may lead to IT Act nixing freedoms
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Assailed from all sides, does the UPA really hope to recover its ‘image’ by muzzling online dissent?
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Chairman of the parliamentary standing committee which has drafted the anti-graft Lokpal Bill, responds to the criticism levelled against him
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Having concentrated his energies on a strong Lokpal bill, Arvind Kejriwal expresses disappointment at the current shape of the draft bill.
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FDI in single-brand retail gets go-ahead. Time to indulge?
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The UPA’s reforms agenda hits a nadir with FDI retail flopshow
OTHER STORIES
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In worshipping at the altar of big retail, and its clinical efficiency, Britons bartered away vital nodes of their local economic and cultural life
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Myanmar’s clever route to integration, and India’s possible role in it
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The NIA’s investigations have been sub par
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Six months on, Mamata’s TMC has ill-used the carte blanche given it by Bengal’s voters
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A temple’s demeaning ‘leftovers’ ritual has all sides frothing
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<i>Somewhere in England</i>, the Quiet Beatle’s farm champions Ahimsa dairy
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A cast of icons leaves us to replay its golden hours in our lives
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A career in the grey zone didn’t dim his genius. It coloured it.
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Mom’s kitchen to NRI plates: the in-between is cut-’n-dry
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The torture of Soni Sori is worse than what the Raj ever inflicted
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Journalists working underworld links are in danger from all sides
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A desperate BJP falls back on Vajpayee visions
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If you come here, make sure you arrive with as open a mind as possible
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Chiki Sarkar brings first sweeping change to Penguin, and the age of literary feuds seems to be here to stay
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A complex moral tale set against the backdrop of China’s Cultural Revolution
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A stirring read, revealing how the poor and dead from India keep the red market bubbling in the developed world
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This magisterial biography of a great artiste is unsparing on the forces and injustices that shaped Bharatanatyam
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On Mad & Divine, a world dance conference, part of the Margazhi festival in Chennai
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The film crumbles while negotiating the thin line between a woman’s inherent power and her vulnerability.
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'Let a thousand ‘moles’ and Aggarwalmarts bloom across the country. The future of the country will brighten with FBI in retail’.
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Dragging my suitcase, I asked a man in a blue uniform for directions to the suburban line into New Jersey. “Do I look like a f....n’ cop to you?” he yelled down his big basketball frame, spat and walked away. “Damn foreigner"...