8 August 2022

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CHAIRMAN AND EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: Aroon Purie VICE CHAIRPERSON: Kalli Purie GROUP CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER: Dinesh Bhatia GROUP EDITORIAL DIRECTOR: Raj Chengappa CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER: Manoj Sharma GROUP CREATIVE EDITOR: Nilanjan Das; GROUP PHOTO EDITOR
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Rumblings In The Yogi Regime
Just four months into its second term, the Yogi Adityanath-led BJP government in Uttar Pradesh is in fire-fighting mode over an unseemly tussle involving a slew of ministers and top figures in the bureaucracy. Several cabinet ministers have complaine
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Monkey On The Back
Taking note of the over 16,000 monkeypox cases in 75 countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) on July 23 declared the disease a public health emergency of international concern. First discovered in 1958, the virus was mostly confined to central
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Cheetah Coalition Takes Oath
Can the world’s fastest land animal feel free to run like the wind in an open-air experiment—in a carefully prepared new home? It’s the question that nags the minds of all stakeholders. Come August, as India celebrates her 75th Independence Day, a ‘c
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The Election Manager
Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma’s behind-the-scenes skills were once again at work in the presidential and vice-presidential polls. In the July 18 presidential election, Sarma ensured that 22 Opposition MLAs—the highest from any state—cross-
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Freaky Friday
In Parliament, private member bills are introduced only on Fridays. Except some of the most talked about private member bills have failed to see the light of day because those proposing them have gone missing on Fridays. BJP’s Kirodi Lal Meena listed
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Hero To Zero
The appointment of Sriram Venkitraman, a 2012-batch IAS officer accused of drunken driving and killing a journalist in 2019, as the Alappuzha district collector has the Kerala Opposition and journalists up in arms. They have demanded a review of the
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Credit Score
Whatever the subject of their presser, Trinamool leaders never miss giving Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee credit for all the development work taking place in the state. Slowly but steadily, another name is being added to the list of acknowledgments—T
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Poll Bugle?
Is Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren preparing for a fresh election? Though assembly polls are still two years away, various units of his party, the JMM (Jharkhand Mukti Morcha), have been pushing the twitter trend #HemantnahitoKaun (who else but
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From The Editor-in-chief
Whenever there is an important post to fill, the media goes into a frenzy with the names of possible candidates who could fill the vacancy. With the NDA government incumbent since 2014, they mostly get it wrong. So it was with the selection of the ne
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“If The Rule Of Law Is Hindutva, I Don’t Mind It”
Q You had vast political experience, including being a minister in the past. You are also the son of a former chief minister of the state. What was the novelty of the challenge you faced as chief minister, and in your approach to the task? Right from
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Not An Easy Ride
Basavaraj Bommai usually speaks ex tempore at public events. The engineer in him has an eye for technical minutiae. Last week, for instance, at the Karnataka Power Corporation’s anniversary celebrations in Bengaluru, he recalled, with some degree of
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Partha’s False Notes
If the Trinamool Congress thought it had effectively shut the lid on the teachers’ recruitment scam that jolted the state a few months back, it was wrong. Less than 24 hours after West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee told the massive turnout at
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Tribal Power
As Droupadi Murmu stood up to take the presidential oath administered by Chief Justice N.V. Ramana on July 25, a hush descended on the power-packed audience that included the prime minister and over a dozen chief ministers assembled in the Central Ha
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Road To Raisina
↘ Born on June 20, 1958, in a Santhal family in Rairangpur tehsil of Odisha’s Mayurbhanj district as the only daughter in a predominantly male household, Droupadi was doted upon by everyone ↘ Her father, Biranchi Narayan Tudu, was a farmer and her mo
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A Status Report
The tribes of India constitute a numerically small minority, just about 9 per cent of the total population. But their expanse is vast, and their cultural imprint on Indianness way deeper than the rest—with many of them seen as descendants of the subc
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The Native Drum Beats
Chief Minister, Meghalaya, Garo tribe An alumnus of St Columba’s School in Delhi and with management degrees from Wharton and Imperial College London, Conrad K. Sangma seamlessly combines his tribal identity with a ‘mainstream’ persona. The son of fo
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Smelted Identities
‘TRIBAL’. The word teems with life, like a forest of meanings. Its very arrival sets off in our minds a sensory explosion. Colour, sound, feel—a rich, compound expressivity. But what does it mean really? Here we trail off into a zone of semantic ambi
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From The Mekong To Malkangiri
Ethnonyms like Bhil and others figure in the old Indian epics, where princely figures encountering the forests is a recurring trope. And genetic studies confirm what archaeologists always knew: human presence on the subcontinent is as old and stable
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A Few ‘Great Leaders’
From a cattle-herding boyhood in Jharkhand’s Khunti division to Oxford to captaining an Indian hockey team that won the Olympic Gold in 1928, to the Indian Civil Service, to presiding over the Adivasi Mahasabha and becoming the first prominent voice
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Hul Johar!
There’s a silent chapter in Indian history—or perhaps a whole library. Some of the fiercest resistance to British colonial power came from the tribal communities. Wave upon wave of armed uprisings, strung over some 150 years—from the Chuar rebellion
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Forest flavours
“IF it’s going to swim upstream, it will happen quickly,” texted Mr F, who also called “it” a “bravery item”. He should know. He met those breathtaking, blustery hills long before Salman Khan and his tribe Mechuka’d their way up to the Lost Frontiers
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Full Stream Ahead
Up until Febru ary 14, 2020, Imtiaz Ali was best known as a chronicler of modern love. There was something simultaneously contemporary and old-fashioned about his romances, be it Jab We Met (2007), Love Aaj Kal (2009) or Tamasha (2015). Then came She
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His Grand Scheme Of Things
Nine years have passed since much of young India found itself enamoured with Ayan Mukerji’s Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani (YJHD). In the interim, Mukerji, much like a James Cameron who has devoted almost all his energies to making the Avatar films, has inv
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India’s Top Medal Contenders At Cwg
The Indian women’s cricket team, which has consistently been on the up in the past five years, will represent the country at a multisport event for the first time. Women’s T20 cricket is set to debut at the CWG in Birmingham and India have sent to th
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Rooted To The Sound
In the music video for the Tetseo Sisters’ 2019 hit ‘Hiyo’, the four Chakhesang Naga siblings stand in the centre circle of a misty football field, garbed in white traditional dress. Straight out of K-pop, a pitch-shifted vocal melody repeats a simpl
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Long Lives The Blues
Locked down in Shillong for much of the past three years, Rudy Wallang and Tipriti Kharbangar—better known as blues-rock trailblazers Soulmate—had live-streaming as the only option to connect with their fans and promote their latest album Give Love,
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The Hills Are Alive…
This Imphal shoegaze/ dreampop trio embody the DIY dream, creating moody, distortion-drenched soundscapes reflecting a sense of alienation. Psychedelia filtered through new-wave’s ironic dourness. Their debut album AKA Lo! Peninsula comes highly reco
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Q+a fighting Fit
Q. Your Instagram feed highlights your ability to pull off breathtaking moves like the triple kick and front flip. Any offers to be an action heroine yet? You may see me in something soon, but I do these things not just for films. To be honest, I am
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