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‘Only a Mother Will Know This Pain’
Shahina KK
Arputham Ammal, the 65-year-old mother of one of the three on death row in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, opens her heart.
‘I’m Not Pleading for Mercy but for Justice’
An exclusive interview in Vellore Central Jail with those sentenced to death in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case
The Dangling Conspiracy Question
Twenty-one years after Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination, the mysterious Multi Disciplinary Monitoring Agency, set up to find out who was behind the conspiracy, has provided no answers
The Matrix Reloaded
Three years after the Mumbai attacks of 26/11, India’s response to terror remains unchanged
The Importance of Being Sonia
Why the Congress cannot do without her. And why that presents her with yet another political challenge
‘No harm in elevating the status (of the Lokpal) to a Constitutional body’
Congress leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi heads the parliamentary Standing Committee in charge of formulating India’s Lokpal Bill. The committee has submitted reports on two other pieces of anti-graft legislation: the Whistleblower and Judicial Accountability bills. He spoke to Dhirendra K Jha on how the Lokpal Bill, together with the two other bills already cleared by the parliamentary panel, will serve as an important bulwark against corruption
Internet Shopping: The Second Wave
Their existence is old news. But their essence is still evolving. Which is why online shops could yet transform us as consumers
Somalia’s Nowhere People
They have been let into the country but do not have permission to make a living here
The Samurai Spirit
A tragedy of gigantic proportions can also be an inflexion point for a country with an innate urge to bounce back. So it could be for Japan
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