April 15, 2024

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More Disguised Than Employed
India’s growth story is one of paradoxes. While unemployment is tapering off and women’s participation in the labour market is seeing an uptick, concerns over the lack of quality and productive jobs loom large—so goes the verdict of the ‘India Employ
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From The Editor-in-chief
India is headed for a general election where the Opposition is not just acting out ordinary political rivalry. It is trying to stave off what it claims to be an existential threat. This is what impelled even formerly awkward allies like the Congress
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Isle Of Contention
↘ Located in the Palk Strait, Katchatheevu is no more than 1.6 km in length and slightly over 300 m wide at its broadest point ↘ It lies 14 nautical miles northeast of Rameswaram on the Tamil Nadu coast and 10.5 nautical miles from Delft Island in Sr
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India Works, Informally
Despite improvement in the past decade, a vast majority of workforce is still engaged in the unorganised sector and informal jobs Women are lagging far behind men in labour force participation rate (LFPR), pointing to gender inequality in Indian soci
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The Lone Thevar With Five Shadows
Cast adrift from his lifelong alma mater, Ottakarathevar Panneerselvam can be pardoned for feeling a little befuddled these days. There was a time when his reverential proximity to the late AIADMK prima donna J. Jayalalithaa had earned him 15 months,
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The Revolution Will Be Webcast!
Shall we call it digital dialectics? The Left has long tried to shed the stereotype of being head-in-the-sand Luddites—one that it had earned back in the Eighties, the early days of computerisation, when it pressed the Ctrl X keys more than anything
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Mini Mantris
In military terms, the Congress has earned the right to see Karnataka as a position of advantage—a high Deccan spur castle from which it can easily pick out any invading horde. Home to the stentorian party boss Mallikarjun Kharge and to the two redou
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R.i.p., Or ‘Om Shanti’?
Defectors have a sense of direction: their GPS is mostly set saffronward these days. So, when a stray migrant comes walking into the Congress camp, you’d expect it to be bowing in gratitude. But Prahlad Gunjal, a BJP import named the Congress candida
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The ‘Lok Tantriks’
Politics is a high-stress profession in these turbulent, uncertain times. So its frazzled practitioners have enough reason to seek divine benediction. The grapevine has it that an Opposition satrap in Maharashtra favours the voodoo powers of a Bengal
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Couple Of Issues
Alliance-making is tricky enough at the party level. But the upcoming Lok Sabha polls have left no room for informal adjustments even at home for a political family in Balaghat, Madhya Pradesh. Former MP Kankar Munjare has asked his wife, Balaghat Co
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Food for Thought
As a vote-getting device, free rations are a common item on political menus these days. But Telugu Desam Party supremo N. Chandrababu Naidu, desperate for a comeback, is trying the opposite trick. He’s appealing to the women of Andhra Pradesh to cut
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Rupala Gets Too Radical
Union minister Parshottam Rupala’s egalitarian turn has boomeranged on him. Trawling his Rajkot constituency for support, the BJP leader found himself at a Valmiki community and duly drew up a bit of eulogistic potted history for the benefit of his a
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Can I.n.d.i.a. Topple Modi?
It would take nine months and the arrest of Delhi chief minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convenor Arvind Kejriwal to bring together the top leaders of the Opposition parties on a single stage. On March 31, at Delhi’s Ramlila Maidan, leader
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“There Is Already An Undeclared Emergency”
Q. How do you expect the Congress to perform in the 2024 Lok Sabha election? What are your prime challenges? The people’s faith in the Congress and its allies is mast (amazing). We hope to cross the majority mark. However, we are facing a resource cr
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A Fluid State
IF a physicist were to determine the ‘state’ of politics, solid would definitely not make the cut. For, given the weak bonds between political actors, politics more closely resembles the fluid state, conforming to the constraints of ever-shifting dyn
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Battle Of Patils
Western Maharashtra’s Sangli, commonly referred to as ‘Natya Pandhari’ or the Mecca of the Marathi theatre industry, has been witnessing a different kind of drama of late. It was in this erstwhile princely state that Vishnudas Bhave had staged the fi
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Of Ranis And Also-rans
Rani ma, Rajmata… It’s with these loaded honorifics, thick with the flavour of nostalgia for a feudal past, that the BJP has been addressing Amrita Roy—matriarch of the former royal family of Krishnanagar and the party’s candidate for the eponymous L
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Exodus Hits Congress
Former state home minister Narottam Mishra now does duty as the convenor of the local BJP joining cell. It’s a job that keeps him incredibly busy these days. On March 29, Kamlesh Shah, a three-term Congress MLA from Amarwara, drove up to Chief Minist
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BJP Vs BJP
The adage that ‘dissent is the highest form of patriotism’ appears to be hitting home for the BJP in Gujarat. Having held unchallenged political dominance in the state for nearly three decades, the party is now faced with rebellion in at least six of
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Mollywood Goes To The Polls
Unlike other states in the south, Kerala has never really taken to screen icons playing political leaders in real life. Mollywood stars have made the occasional foray, but they have mostly been short-lived except for K.B. Ganesh Kumar, presently tran
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Nothing Fake About It
Charges and counter-charges thicken the air in West Bengal as the BJP and the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) prepare for a faceoff in the Lok Sabha polls. The TMC’s biggest weapon against the NDA-ruled Centre is the non-payment of wages due under th
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Ground Fleet
On March 30, the Andhra Pradesh chief electoral officer Mukesh Kumar Meena put tough strictures on the Gram Sachivalayam and Ward Sachivalayam (GSWS) volunteers of the Jagan Reddy-led government. This follows the orders in February barring them from
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A Stealthy Lethal Force
With air power being regarded as the sword arm of offensive operations, as well as crucial in defence, in all modern military doctrines, developing more sophisticated fighter jets has been a continuing objective for top military powers. The term ‘fif
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A Breed Of Its Own
Development cost: $40 billion (₹3.28 lakh crore) Entered service in: 2015 Features: Multirole fighter that integrates advanced stealth qualities with agility. Cutting-edge sensors and avionics (Northrop Grumman AN/APG-81 AESA radar, BAE Systems AN/AS
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Breaking The Mould
There’s never a dull moment when actor Gulshan Devaiah speaks his heart out, whether it’s on- or off-screen. From the beginning of his career, he has never shied away from taking on layered roles—be it in Shaitan, Hunterrr, Badhaai Do, Duranga, or Gu
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Star So Bright
Enter the environs of Imtiaz Ali’s Window Seat Films in Versova, a residential suburb in Mumbai known for being home to as many film offices as cafés, and one cannot miss glimpses of Punjabi artist Amar Singh Chamkila, heralded as the ‘Elvis Presley
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Those Were The Days
We think the world is connected like never before now but, even a hundred years ago, there was an immense amount of sharing of ideas in a cultural convergence beyond borders. Actor Devika Rani, producer Himanshu Rai, director Franz Osten and cinemato
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Nature Above All
The effortless grace with which Ganesh Haloi switched from masterly figurative studies dating back to the late 1960s to rendering mindscapes reflecting his communion with nature is vividly expressed in an eye-opening exhibition. Ganesh Haloi: Re-cita
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Walks On The Wild Side
In The Cobra’s Gaze, Stephen Alter returns with another slow-burning tour de force, drawing on journeys in the Indian subcontinent to revisit the human connection with nature. Offering cultural and historical context to our ongoing struggle to preser
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Wonder Women
In this wonderful collection, Anita Mani presents the work of 13 wildlife biologists, each of whom has battled sexism, misogyny and the dangers and physical challenges of field research—leeches, scorpions and the occasional pit viper—to further our u
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Green thumbs
It’s only April, and it has already been a bad year for tree-lovers, especially with the news that 6,000 trees were felled in the Jim Corbett National Park to facilitate eco-tourism, that greatest of all environmental fictions. But a dot of light has
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And Justice For All
Q. What drew you to Patna Shuklla? I didn’t know of the roll number change scam where a student gets cheated of the work they have done. The script really hit me because I have two kids who are also students. All my career I have liked doing films wi

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