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Cover Story

Does RSS Evoke A Sense Of Parallel Authority?

Is the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) a secretive fraternity with its own idea of India? Questions abound as it seeks to mainstream itself.

Aug 30, 2018

| Bhavna Vij-Aurora
Cover Story

Why Muslim Brotherhood Is No Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh

Unlike RSS, Muslim Brotherhood has international influence, faced persecution and embodies resistance

Aug 30, 2018

| Pranay Sharma
Cover Story

Handcuffs Can Buy Them Silence

The arrest of activists on the opposite pole of the RSS actuates the Supreme Court into action

Aug 30, 2018

| Ushinor Majumdar
Cover Story

Many Members Of The Extended Family Of RSS

With 6000 Pracharaks and 15-20 lakh participants, RSS has about 70000 shakhas across the nation besides 60 lakh alumni and affiliate volunteers.

Aug 30, 2018

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Cover Story

The Feminine In The Sangh

RSS women face the same negation in discourse that all women meet at workplaces

Aug 30, 2018

| Advaita Kala
Cover Story

‘Attacking It Will Push The RSS To Support The BJP’s Poll Campaign More Zealously’

Walter K. Andersen, a professor who has studied the right-wing organisation for over five decades, speaks about the workings of the RSS and its growing influence on Indian society and politics.

Aug 30, 2018

| Bhavna Vij-Aurora
Opinion

Rahul Gandhi Doesn’t Know The RSS | By Seshadri Chari

The Congress president’s harangues can only invite ridicule and derision

Aug 30, 2018

| Seshadri Chari
Opinion

Mukhauta Can’t Hide Its Nature: Abhishek Singhvi On RSS

The RSS is incapable of a nationalism that arises from a feeling of inclusiveness

Aug 30, 2018

| Abhishek Manu Singhvi

Following The Spoor

Who Killed Gauri, Kalburgi, Dabholkar, Pansare? The Puzzle Cracks, Slowly

A year after Gauri Lankesh's murder, the trail of a network of radical Hindu right-wing operatives that investigators in Karnataka have been piecing together now appears to be widening, and their paths criss-crossing.

Aug 29, 2018

| Ajay Sukumaran
New Path

As DMK Chief, Stalin Has To Keep His Flock Together

As DMK chief, Stalin has to keep his flock together, set an agenda and meet challenges

Aug 29, 2018

| G.C. Shekhar
Food Scare

Kernel Of A Tragedy

Mango-seed poisoning kills three adivasis in an Odisha village

Aug 29, 2018

| Sandeep Sahu
Poll Mode

The KCR Gambit: Political Debate Heats Up Over Early Telangana Elections

K. Chandrasekhar Rao wants to dissolve the state assembly and opt for early elections. He has had successive meetings within his cabinet, followed by extended party meets attended by office-bearers, MPs and MLAs in New Delhi.

Aug 29, 2018

| M.S. Shanker
Dark Beauties

Underground Art: The Unique Caves Of Meghalaya Hold Many Secrets

Brian Dermot Kharpran Daly, founder of the Meghalaya Adventurers’ Association in the early 1990s, and his team have discovered more than 1,700 caves so far. These include the ‘Fairy Cave’— Krem Puri—the world’s longest sandstone cave measured to an astonishing 24.5 km, nearly three times that of Mt Everest.

Aug 29, 2018

| Anupam Bordoloi
Postdiluvian

Anatomy Of A Flood

Was the deluge so terrible because of poor planning and meddling with nature? Environmental concerns must come to the fore as Kerala rebuilds.

Aug 30, 2018

| Minu Ittyipe
- Grow With Roots In The Earth | By Madhav Gadgil
Opinion

Sharper Than Naked Injustice

Journalists small and mighty suffered the Emergency defiantly, then resisted and defeated plans to muzzle the press. We look towards their example in gathering dusk.

Aug 30, 2018

| Hiranmay Karlekar

Hanging On

Not In His Hair: The Scandal-hopping Trump Is In A Deeper Soup

Donald Trump’s many detractors are now putting together their energy and resources, busy collecting evidence that could successfully carry through an impeachment motion in the Senate and unseat him.

Aug 30, 2018

| Pranay Sharma

Small Change

Why Rupee Will Remain Turbulent For Next Few Months

International tariff, currency and investment wars are hitting the rupee even if India is not a direct player in the churning.

Aug 30, 2018

| Lola Nayar

Castle City

64 Madras Light Infantry

With prodigies regularly coming off the assembly line, Chennai is still the chess capital of India

Aug 29, 2018

| G.C. Shekhar
- “I See At Least Five Prospective World Champions From India”

Centre Stage

Epic Sound Of Thunder

The Adishakti group brings alive a myth from the Ramayana

Aug 29, 2018

| Geeta Doctor

The Insider

Deep Throat

A regular column on the essential buzz

Aug 29, 2018

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Last Page

Hampi Diary

In Outlook this week, executive editor Satish Padmanabhan writes a diary on his visit to Hampi and the 'Holy side and Hippie side' of it.

Aug 29, 2018

| Satish Padmanabhan
In & Around

The Subcontinental Menu

Why members of India's archery squad are required to visit crematoria at night to Bombay High Court's 'Baywatch' reference on need to adopt modern means. Read this and much more in this week's The Subcontinental Menu.

Aug 29, 2018

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Review

Swords And Chandeliers

The Bahmanis, Vijayanagara, Shivaji...a fine history of the Deccan bristles with cruel and grand potentates, frustrated Mughals and snooty Persians

Aug 29, 2018

| P.A. Krishnan
Review

Two Lives Lived In Verse

From Mahapatra’s incense- and petrichor-laden poems to Patel’s ironic urban themes, these volumes both collect and update

Aug 29, 2018

| Sudeep Sen
Review

Ring The Ammo Import Panel

India’s security challenges, new and traditional, are the focus of this book. It also deals with concerns like internal, economic and cyber security.

Aug 29, 2018

| Manoj Joshi
Glitterati

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