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India This Week

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There’s No Way to Please Them All; Even Hobsbawm Can’t Bail Karat; Separatists Must Unite; No Country for Old Memories; MPs’ First Call of Duty: Show Up

The Other Headlines and Battles

Soma Wadhwa

…that women in India will have to fight outside Parliament and the armed forces.

A Losing Battle

Ninad D. Sheth

There are brave forest officers who are doing their utmost to save Indian wildlife from poachers. But even their best efforts could prove too little, too late.

Diplomatic Convergence

Ninad D. Sheth

Moscow and New Delhi are updating an old friendship. Vladimir Putin’s visit to India has made that much clear.

Avenues of Angst

Jaideep Mazumdar

Traffic blockades in Kolkata are part and parcel of the city’s daily routine. If there’s a cause, you can be sure there’ll be a holdup.

The more things change…

Jatin Gandhi

Party president Nitin Gadkari has set up a new team to revive the BJP, but if the party needed a break from the past, this is certainly not it.

Matua Millions for Mamata

Jaideep Mazumdar

A 12.5 million-strong sect in Bengal has ditched the Left and might vote en bloc for Didi because their guru wants them to.

The Case for Strategic Silence

Ninad D. Sheth

It is a matter of concern that our Defence Minister reacts to most problems saying it’s a “matter of concern”. High time he stopped being just concerned and did something.

One of India’s most powerful politicians is killed by his brother. Son goes on drug orgy, friend dies. Killer brother dies in jail. Now son gets married on reality TV. Here is a family that is stranger than fiction.

India This Week

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Now, Prepare for a War over Food; Govt Sits on Rs 10 crore Fund; A Supremely Strange Petition in the SC; Seven Deaths and Our Civic Agencies Still Don’t Care