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World
Dynamic, Chaotic, Fragmented and Still Evolving — And Hard to Fight

For the masses to be mobilised, the violence must be seen as justified. That means choosing the ‘lowest common denominator’

15 January 2015
Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh as he stars in MSG
Others
The Dera Sacha Sauda chief

The Dera chief has been accused of rape and murder and of ordering the castration of 400 Dera followers

15 January 2015
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India
An Epic Obsession

Bibek Debroy has completed a ten-volume translation of the Mahabharata in English. Inside the mind of an economist with a difference whose daytime job nowadays is the restructuring of Indian Railways and duties as a permanent member of the recently formed NITI Aayog

14 January 2015
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Science
Hearty Optimists

Cheerful people are twice as likely to be in ideal cardiovascular health compared to their pessimistic peers

14 January 2015
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NITI Aayog

The Government claims that the NITI Aayog will bid farewell to the practice of a ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach to development

08 January 2015
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Science
The Cancer Lottery

Most tumours are not caused by lifestyle habits or faulty genes, but plain bad luck

07 January 2015
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India
CHANGE: A BIOGRAPHY

S Prasannarajan • PR Ramesh • Ullekh NP • Madhavankutty Pillai • V Shoba • Lhendup G Bhutia • Chinki Sinha • Gunjeet Sra • Rajni George • Divya Unny

07 January 2015
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India
Why He Still Matters

MJ Akar • Pratap Bhanu Mehta • Swapan Dasgupta • Sunanda K Datta-Ray •Tunku Varadarajan • Priyamvada Gopal • Madhav Khosla • Yusuf Ahmad Ansari • Sumantra Bose • Sunil Raman

29 December 2014
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India
2014 REVIEW: POLITICS

Nitish Kumar’s Anti-BJP Gamble • The Fall of Jayalalithaa • AAP’s Hitwicket • The Birth of Telangana • The Not so Grand Alliance • The Congress Eclipse

24 December 2014
Art-smritairani
Art & Culture
2014 REVIEW: ART & CULTURE

Lamented • The Pulitzer Poet • Christie’s Again • Cultural Bully • The Indian Banksy • A Millennium for DDLJ • The New Bestselling Genre • The Yogi Departs

24 December 2014

Authors

Brahma Chellaney

Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist and the author of two award-winning books on water: Water, Peace, and War and Water: Asia’s New Battleground

MJ Akbar

MJ Akbar is the author of, among several titles, Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan. His latest book is Gandhi: A Life in Three Campaigns

Ram Madhav

Ram Madhav is president, India Foundation, and is with BJP

Makarand R Paranjape

Makarand R Paranjape is an author and columnist. Views are personal.

TCA Raghavan

TCA Raghavan is a former Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan and Singapore. His first book, Attendant Lords: Abdur Rahim and Bairam Khan: Courtiers and Poets in Mughal India, was awarded the Mohammad Habib Prize by the Indian History Congress. He is also the author of The People Next Door: The Curious History of India’s Relations with Pakistan and History Men: Jadunath Sarkar, G S Sardesai, Raghubir Sinh and Their Quest for India’s Past. His latest book is Circles of Freedom: Love, Friendship and Loyalty in the Indian National Struggle

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