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Cover Story

Ram Redux A New Calendar For Polls And Puja

The BJP’s keenness to wave again the magic wand that helped it beat Mandal in the 1990s could be a sign that the ruling party’s 2019 script will have a ‘mandir accomplished’ theme

Nov 30, 2017

| Bhavna Vij-Aurora Ushinor Majumdar
Cover Story

Once Upon A Demolition

The millennials exist in a state of happy unmemory, but what has it really wrought?

Dec 01, 2017

| Pragya Singh
Cover Story

The Story Of Ram’s Birthplace Without The Babri Masjid

On Ram Navami in 1859, itinerant mendicant Vishnu Bhatt visited Ayodhya and left a vivid account of the festivites, immortalising a single moment in a long and complex tale. Shockingly, there is no reference to the Babri Masjid in his account. Overleaf, a timeline highlighting the origins and development of the dispute.

Dec 01, 2017

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Cover Story

Tracing The History Of Babri Masjid

A chronology of events related to Babri Masjid- Ram Janmabhoomi

Dec 01, 2017

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Opinion

Time To Return To Basic Issues

RSS seldom hides its ‘Hindu rashtra’ agenda, only puts it on the ‘backburner’ sometimes. A true nationalistic movement alone can counter its march.

Nov 30, 2017

| Purushottam Agrawal
Opinion

Building A Party Brick By Brick

December 6 fundamentally changed something about Indian polity. Now is an apt time to repair the cracks, reach a solution and move on.

Nov 30, 2017

| Dr R. Balashankar
Opinion

Birth Of A New Hindu Nation

It can’t be without reason that the RSS now says a mandir alone will come up at the disputed site. The Sangh has been carving a Hindu India since ’92.

Nov 30, 2017

| Pralay Kanungo
Opinion

Symbol Of Cultural Resurgence

The majority of Indians, who revere Ram and his birthplace, will settle for nothing less than a Ram temple at the exact spot where the mosque stood

Nov 30, 2017

| C.K. Saji Narayanan
First Person

Through The Victim Lens

A Muslim photographer recalls December 6, 1992, when he was at Babri Masjid

Nov 30, 2017

| P. Musthafa
Interview

“The Centre Would Be Just As Helpless In Such A Crisis Today”

The Then Union home secretary, Madhav Godbole, recalls situation surrounding the Babri Masjid demolition.

Nov 30, 2017

| Prachi Pinglay-Plumber
Opinion

Terrorists Out Of Petty Goons

Black Friday, which was later made into a film, shows the vicious cycle: revenge for Babri triggered Mumbai blasts, which led to the Gujarat riots

Dec 01, 2017

| S. Hussain Zaidi

Comment

Ramayanam As Tragedy

Until the Left and the Centre revisit Gandhi’s Rama, the Right will continue to monopolise the religious idiom of the masses.

Dec 01, 2017

| Rajesh Ramachandran
After Amma

No Bud Amid Two Leaves

A year after Jayalalitha’s death, Tamil Nadu continues to be in a state of political flux

Nov 30, 2017

| G.C. Shekhar
- Feel-Rich Factor In RK Nagar

Interview

‘A Global Mechanism Is The Need Of The Hour’

In the age of Aadhar, how important is cyber security? Dr Ajay Kumar, additional scretary of Ministry of Electronics and IT says it's "challenging"

Dec 01, 2017

| Arushi Bedi
Info Haze

News Code Factory

Algorithms and SEO make journalism a pure commodity in the digital market at the cost of traditional ethics

Dec 01, 2017

| Siddhartha Mishra

Playing On

Saddle Sore Among The Gallopers

Kohli talked about lack of preparation time, but fatigue also stalks the overworked Indian cricketers. Their master, the Board, just doesn’t care.

Nov 30, 2017

| Qaiser Mohammad Ali

Notes Travel

A Maritime Arc Of Saptaswaras

Young Carnatic musicians, born or living in the US, are shifting base to Chennai as full-time performers

Nov 30, 2017

| G.C. Shekhar G.C. Shekhar
Opinion

Plucks Of Tonal Purity

In her 150th year, Dhanammal continues to epitomise nuanced, delicate music

Nov 30, 2017

| Kiranavali Vidyasankar

The Insider

Deep Throat

A regular column on the essential buzz

Dec 01, 2017

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Last Page

Ayodhya Diary

Today, Ayodhya is full of Ram temples that claim to be built at the birthplace of Ram. The reason is obvious. Any temple that establishes itself as the birthplace of Ram gets huge donations from devotees, writes filmmaker Anand Patwardhan.

Dec 01, 2017

| Anand Patwardhan
In & Around

The Subcontinental Menu

Meet BSP's "chillar" candidate in Gujarat; Why are crows dying a mysterious death in Assam's Sonitpur. Read all the juicy tidbits here...

Nov 30, 2017

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Review

We Are Cut From This Fabric

The trading economy of Indian cotton and its colonial destruction are described well in this journey. It’s in its recent miles that there are gaps.

Dec 01, 2017

| Yoginder K. Alagh
Review

The Russian Who Gave Much With Love

A new biography of Gorbachev charts his career—his grand policies which he couldn’t enforce, and his concessions to the West that weren’t reciprocated

Nov 30, 2017

| P.S. Raghavan
Review

Leader With A Smooth Take-Off

A doting biography from a wife charts Rajesh Pilot’s life. Yet as regards some high points of his political life, this is a curiously incomplete account.

Dec 01, 2017

| Faraz Ahmad
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