Why we don’t benefit from falling crude
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COVER STORY
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Modi is caught in the pincer of a paradox—his RSS-fed hankering for a Hindu rashtra and his own modern technocratism. Where will his balancing act lead India?
Mobile wallets are the new big players in the transactions push. And it’s clicking.
Kiran Nagarkar, one of the most significant writers of postcolonial India, on the current atmosphere and its political underpinnings.
Across the world, down the ages, regimes of all colours have throttled dissenting voices
Uday Prakash, the first writer to forsake his Akademi award, rues the shrunk world he inhabits
Mumbai—under siege from the Shiv Sena’s puerile jingoism—is no longer a cosmopolitan safe haven. The BJP-Sena spat over recent events is only a new eyesore.
The writers’ stand is forcing the government to sit up and take notice, even if it acts nonchalant
In the end, there is The Word.... It falls upon writers to floatan ark of reason in the flood of intolerance in Modi-led India.
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Modi is caught in the pincer of a paradox—his RSS-fed hankering for a Hindu rashtra and his own modern technocratism. Where will his balancing act lead India?
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The IPL or any event of this scale is a fantastic opportunity for any company
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Mobile wallets are the new big players in the transactions push. And it’s clicking.
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Kiran Nagarkar, one of the most significant writers of postcolonial India, on the current atmosphere and its political underpinnings.
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Across the world, down the ages, regimes of all colours have throttled dissenting voices
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Uday Prakash, the first writer to forsake his Akademi award, rues the shrunk world he inhabits
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Mumbai—under siege from the Shiv Sena’s puerile jingoism—is no longer a cosmopolitan safe haven. The BJP-Sena spat over recent events is only a new eyesore.
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The writers’ stand is forcing the government to sit up and take notice, even if it acts nonchalant
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In the end, there is The Word.... It falls upon writers to floatan ark of reason in the flood of intolerance in Modi-led India.
OTHER STORIES
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Maneka Gandhi, Union minister for women & child development, on the controversy generated by the decision of Missionaries of Charity to stop facilitating the adoption.
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The Missionaries of Charity, while following the new rules, will continue to run its adoption centres. But a deep unease blankets all.
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Have the new adoption guidelines complicated matters further?
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Indian weaves sashay on the ramp
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The iconic Smita Patil would have been 60 this week. A new biography traces her life, her untimely death and her glorious, meteoric career. Excerpts.
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It’s competitive statue-building zindabad!
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For the Prime Minister’s pet project, a record-breaking statue of Sardar Patel, his ‘Make in India’ initiative gets the short shrift
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The institutional tripod of the State has become an unstablearrangement on two legs. Articles 75(5) and 164(4) must go.
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It was as if Sushma decided, one fine day, that condoms weren’t working as a mitigation tool against AIDS.
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A prudish I&B plans to restrict condom ads on TV, but will it defeat the purpose?
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Not caste, pro-development youth will be a factor in the Bihar vote
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BJP president Amit Shah who is possibly facing his toughest political test on the Bihar Elections.
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<i>Outlook</i> in retrospect.
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Its fearless and gutsy taking of positions is admirable.
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I am truly tired of reading about the same cycle of politics and the same ministers; why are we giving them so much importance?
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Business in bitesizes
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The Tata Mumbai Literature Festival, the Delhi International Arts Festival and boiling the perfect egg.
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There is a multi-billion-dollar weight-loss industry preying on a simple fact—fear and confusion about what to eat.
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The first Jamaican to win the Booker prize and Rushdie's unafraid form.
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Forsyth’s real life story is more thrilling than any yarn he ever spun for us!
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Gita Press, <i>Kalyan</i>, and its editor Hanuman Prasad Poddar moulded Hindu politics and its pet concerns
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The states of the nation: news, headlines, gossip, rumours, things we learnt
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The celebrity mom on her first book
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Gupta has a stellar cast, but loses out on this advantage with his slipshod direction.
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A regular column on the essential buzz
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Just like the ‘Railway Mutton Curry’ of yore, it is difficult to get the authentic dhaba chicken any more.
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