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Women In Kerala Are Pushing The 'Lakshmana Rekha'
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Women In Kerala Are Pushing The 'Lakshmana Rekha'

The Sabarimala and Franco fiascos are emblematic of the patriarchy’s resistance to women’s rights.

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November 05, 2018
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CBI Scandal: Are The Political Masters To Blame?

Infighting within the top rungs of the CBI blows up into an unprecedented crisis of credibility for India’s premier investigation agency, often derided as a political parrot.

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November 05, 2018
Seeds Of Politics In Debt-Trap Farm
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Seeds Of Politics In Debt-Trap Farm

Will the spate of loan write-offs help India’s heavily indebted farming communty?

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January 14, 2019
Kashmir Carpet In Gordian Knot
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Kashmir Carpet In Gordian Knot

Global recession, machine-made cheap copies and low tourist inflow push homespun magic into a tailspin.

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October 08, 2018
Congress Is Back With A Bang
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Congress Is Back With A Bang

The ‘semi-finals’ went to the Congress, rousing it from four years of gloom. Its colours now reappear in heartland India, hitting the BJP in its own stronghold: 2019 looks a more open game now.

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December 24, 2018
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To Stop The Next Kasabs

War today has mutated; it now comes in many forms. Once it used to have a beginning and an end—truce and peace would follow war. Terrorism, its most dreaded modern mutant, breaks that template. It has the feel of a permanent war, one without end or armistice. November 26 is a day to remember one of the biggest terror strikes India has seen—big on spectacle like 9/11, and almost equal in its disruptive nature, if not the number of people who lay dead at the end. One decade since that November day, it’s a time to mourn the dead—a staggering 166 civilians and security personnel—and to take what appears in the retrospective lens and apply it to the future. The best way to honour those dead would be to ensure the mistakes that brought it about, or aided it, are never repeated. are we ready to face a new, morphed form of violent terror? Before we look at the gaps in our fences, we must crack the code of terror, put its rubik’s cube squares in a pattern.

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November 26, 2018
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Laloo Prasad Yadav- Absentee Kingmaker?

The prisoner-patient of fodder scam taint may be at his weakest today, but his boast that you can’t take Laloo out of Bihar still rings a tad true. The old warrior seems nowhere close to exiting 2019’s election chessboard.

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January 21, 2019
Asian Games 2018- Champions Of Their Own Making
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Asian Games 2018- Champions Of Their Own Making

A trickle of precious gold at the Asiad could herald a gush of metal. Remarkably, our athletes are backed by self-serving official apathy, callousness and greed.

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September 03, 2018
Narendra Modi- India Hasn't Been The Same Since...
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Narendra Modi- India Hasn't Been The Same Since...

Once an outsider to Delhi’s power corridors, Modi learned the ropes like an apprentice and took the world by storm.

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August 20, 2018
Revisiting 12 Things That Shook Us
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Revisiting 12 Things That Shook Us

These lives were made and unmade by 12 stories that hit the headlines before fading out in the past two decades

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July 29, 2019
How Sindhu Regained Her Balance!
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How Sindhu Regained Her Balance!

How Sindhu regained her balance, and in winning the China Open, breached a great wall of excellence.

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December 5, 2016
Bait In Black And White
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Bait In Black And White

Up for grabs is another offer for cash hoarders to change the colour of their money.

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December 12, 2016
Ravichandran Ashwin, World's No 1 Bowler!
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Ravichandran Ashwin, World's No 1 Bowler!

Ashwin’s grit, variations, upgradation of skills and meticulous marking of batsmen have made him the world’s No 1 bowler.

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December 26, 2016
Heart Attack! The Cardiac Crooks
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Heart Attack! The Cardiac Crooks

The stent is a life-saver, that is all a patient knows. But, for the doctor, what often hangs in balance is a huge cut, bribes and vacation abroad.

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December 26, 2016
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Cow Soldiers Ride Buff Bazaar

New anti-slaughter rules choke cattle markets, make farmers desperate

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June 12, 2017
Indo-Pak Talks: So Where Were We?
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Indo-Pak Talks: So Where Were We?

After what seemed like an intractable chill, India and Pak get to the talks-table again.

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December 21, 2015
Starry-Eyed At The House Of Reels
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Starry-Eyed At The House Of Reels

The big screen. Up there dreams are built and spilt, lives are lived, loved and lost and all of us are along for the ride.

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January 11, 2016
Rahul Gandhi: "Power Is Poison, But You Can't Run Away From It"
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Rahul Gandhi: "Power Is Poison, But You Can't Run Away From It"

It’s been a long, gruelling campaign for the Lok Sabha elections.

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May 27, 2019
A Lull After The Storm
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A Lull After The Storm

CM Naveen Patnaik’s ‘zero casualty’ hype was blown away as Cyclone Fani left a trail of tragedies.

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May 27, 2019
A Unique Partnership Of Narendra Modi And Amit Shah
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A Unique Partnership Of Narendra Modi And Amit Shah

Theirs is a unique partnership that successfully ground down the anti-BJP narratives around demonetisation, farm distress and job flight, getting people across sections to vote for Modi. And Amit Shah’s realpolitik may now enable the PM to build an inclusive image.

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June 10, 2019
The Blocks That Built Modi 2.0
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The Blocks That Built Modi 2.0

The Modi-Shah orchestra was backed by a battle-ready party system, clinical electoral strategy. It rendered the Opposition out of tune.

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June 10, 2019
Meghalaya's Caves Are A Treasure Trove Of Unique Flora And Fauna
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Meghalaya's Caves Are A Treasure Trove Of Unique Flora And Fauna

The unique caves of Meghalaya hold many secrets and provide a glimpse of Earth’s past.

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September 10, 2018
Why Modi Must Lose!
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Why Modi Must Lose!

He has been bad for social cohesion, economy and institutions.

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November 19, 2018
Will Narendra Modi Win?
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Will Narendra Modi Win?

Insulating PM Modi from accusations as election season hots up is top priority for the BJP. The rest can be managed, they say.

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November 19, 2018
BJP March - Pushing South
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BJP March - Pushing South

India’s ruling party has pulled all stops in its mission to shed the northern tag by conquering the lands across the Vindhyas

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July 29, 2019
How Start-Ups Die!
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How Start-Ups Die!

They were to inherit the earth. Start-ups, the playfield of the young and the restless, have had a hard reality check. What gives?

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March 20, 2017
The Election Is Not A Funeral
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The Election Is Not A Funeral

The seven per cent turnout in the Srinagar bypoll marks a new low for Kashmir’s pro-India parties.

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April 24, 2017
Who Wants a Bound Script?
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Who Wants a Bound Script?

After a flurry of coups and near ­coronations, TN may settle down to a Thevar­ Gounder tug of war.

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February 27, 2017
The Monk Who Stung A Hornet
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The Monk Who Stung A Hornet

The Dalai Lama’s Arunachal visit worsens Sino­Indian ties, as neighbours reap the benefits of their competing largesse

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April 17, 2017
New-Found Mahatma Love
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New-Found Mahatma Love

The PM’s appropriation of Gandhi is helping the BJP shape a new political persona

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April 17, 2017