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Cover Story/Citizen Dissent

Streets Say No: Anti-CAA Protests Shake India

Students of Jamia Millia Islamia and Aligarh Muslim University were the face of the anti-Citizenship Amendment Act. The solidarity from students and citizens, cutting across region and religion, reflected the angst against the government

Dec 19, 2019

| Bhavna Vij-Aurora Preetha Nair
Cover Story/Citizen Dissent

‘Hindutva’s Mainstream Still Meets Resistance’

Dec 19, 2019

| Preetha Nair
Opinion

OPINION | Politics Of Fear Has Been Deeply Entrenched In The Social Fabric

Dissent is a right and one that is guaranteed by the Constitution of India but on an operational level, it is a forbidden fruit, writes Shahid Lone of Jamia Millia Islamia University

Dec 19, 2019

| Shahid Lone
News / Cover Story

In North-East India Why The Word 'Bangladeshi' Is Just Plain Evil

The Citizenship Amendment Act has scratched an old wound in a land where the hatred for the 'illegal immigrant' runs deep

Dec 19, 2019

| Anupam Bordoloi
Jump Cut

OPINION | Antipathy Towards Bengalis Prime Mover Of Assam Politics

Bengalis living in Assam from decades before Bangladesh was born in 1971 are routinely called 'Bangladeshis'. The experience of feeling unwanted in one's own country is baffling, writes journalist Samrat Choudhury

Dec 19, 2019

| Samrat Choudhury
News / Cover Story

The Birth Of Politics And The Politics Of Birth In Assam Is Complex

In other Indian states, the primacy of linguistic majority is inviolable. Assam, battered by the human weight of Partition and repeated waves thereafter, has sought it in vain.

Dec 19, 2019

| Rituparna Kakoty
News / Cover Story

In Assam, That Day The CAB Storm Came To My Town

Dec 19, 2019

| Paromita Bardoloi
Citizenship / Refugees

Smoke And Mirror

The Citizenship (Amendment) Act brings relief and cheer to a section of refugees living in squalid camps in India. The partisan law will help those, such as Pakistani Hindus transit from ‘stateless’ people to Indian citizens. But it won’t change the status quo of Lankan Hindu and Afghan Muslim refugees.

Dec 19, 2019

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Privacy / Data Security

No Threat To State’s Right To Know You

Proposed data protection law won’t protect personal data from the government

Dec 18, 2019

| Siddhartha Mishra
- ‘They’ll Take Data, Won’t Ask’
Childcare / Bank Up

How Human Breast Milk Banks Are Becoming A Mother's Delight In India

Human milk banks are sourcing and supplying donated milk to babies whose mothers cannot breastfeed

Dec 18, 2019

| Lachmi Deb Roy
2019 Newsmakers/Events

Count The Pebbles On Your Plates

What picqued us in 2019? Picked us up? Let us down? A stocktaking of the year’s top events and wired personages.

Dec 20, 2019

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Poliglot

Cost Of A Conviction

Dec 18, 2019

| Jeevan Prakash Sharma
Poliglot

Babu’s Barbs

Dec 18, 2019

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Poliglot

The Return Of The Book

Dec 18, 2019

| Naseer Ganai
Poliglot

As You Sowa, So Shall You Rigpa

Dec 18, 2019

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Interview

‘My Relationship With Alcohol Wasn’t Great’

Dec 18, 2019

| Soumitra Bose
Poliglot

Y2K, 20 Years On

Dec 18, 2019

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Poliglot

Traffic Fines? Neigh

Dec 18, 2019

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Poliglot: Mixed Shots

Dec 18, 2019

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The NEWS

Dec 18, 2019

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Sans Frontiers

Dec 19, 2019

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News / Economy

From Onions To Auto And Housing, Why Indian Economy Is Full Of Bizarre Contradictions

Food inflation is up three times but huge discounts in auto and housing indicate that economy is in a confused flux with all vital signs looking bleak

Dec 19, 2019

| Lola Nayar Alam Srinivas Jyotika Sood

Interview

‘There Is Great Depth In India’s Young Chess Talent’

Dec 18, 2019

| G.C. Shekhar

Book Review

Pop Goes The Physic For You

Gladwell does his usual mix of science, history, research and breezy talk to show how we need to know people better for the world’s good. Pity, his solutions are wafer-thin.

Dec 18, 2019

| Sankar Radhakrishnan
Book Review

Stoke The Fire, Let Him Begin

This chronicle of a life lived to the fullest sparkles with incident, wit, ambition and joie de vivre

Dec 18, 2019

| Fahad Samar
Book Review

On The Racks

Dec 18, 2019

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Review / Art and Culture

Demons And Video Games

Dec 18, 2019

| Lachmi Deb Roy

Review / Art and Culture

Audi 5

Dec 18, 2019

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Last Page

Amsterdam Diary

Dec 18, 2019

| Ashok K. Mehta

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