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Porn Is In The Eye Of The Beholder
Video clips are mere breach of privacy. If there is any taboo that must shake the nation’s consciousness awake, it’s the violence on the marginalised.
The Sea Where the Sun Rises
How Japan Plans to Keep its Seas Open and Free , With more than just American Help.
The Great Mobile Internet Ripoff!
As India prefers mobile internet over fixed-line, a heavy rush of users cram-packs the digital highway, making slow and erratic the online norm.
Chaos In Bengal
Though ringed with swathes of hope, communalism is slow poisoning Bengal, as politicians fight over the spoils of hatred
Father, Son And Holy Bike
The SP emerges in one piece from the ‘family feud’, with some deft manoeuvring by Mulayam.
The Sins Of Our Fathers
Sex crimes come with a tinge of holy terror when clergymen prey on the laity. An institutional response can’t be different from a Christian one. Why then does India’s Catholic Church not walk its pious talk?
From Amir Khusrau To Filthy Abuse
India these days is ­being ­identified with ­Hinduism. Our history tells us why patriots must stand against this.
Don't Foist Fear Onto Nationalism
Being anti-Hindu is secularism, support to terrorists is human rights, insulting national culture is freedom of expression. Only, love for the Mother is debatable!
Rockbed Of Cultural Renascence
Patriotism is the vitality of a nation and Indians abundantly love their country. Arguments that it can lead to friction are absurd. We can’t live in just the present.
In Lieu of Courting Justice
How Muzaffarnagar is trying to heal the wounds of the 2013 riots and move on
We Need A 'New Deal' To Come Out Of Jobless Growth
Elected general secretary of the CPI(M) last year, Rajya Sabha member Sitaram Yechury, 63, has had a patchy record—an expected electoral win in Kerala was partly eclipsed by a drubbing in West Bengal, where he is said to have willy-nilly gone along with the state unit’s insistence on an “arrangement” with the Congress, against the party’s much-ballyhooed ‘Vizag line’. In a freewheeling interview with Bula Devi, Yechury denies suggestions that the Left is on the decline, demands a ban on futures trading to control prices of essential commodities and claims that only seven per cent of workers today are unionised —the biggest challenge for the Left. Excerpts:
The Third Gender, Free To Fly
A recoiling society banishes transgenders to the wretched margins. As a bill in Parliament pledges protection, these Indians glimpse freedom.
His Fight To Finish
In his gritty tussle with BCCI, Verma had a little help from friends
Sinositis Relapse?
How are South China Sea and Balochistan connected? Via the dragon ofcourse.
Sacredness is a Place
At Mother House, the devout still feel an indefinable presence.
To Swim In Reason
Bikini or burkini... It's a choice best left to the woman.
Different Approaches To A Table
Indian ‘hardliners’ feel confident in reaching out. But Pakistani lines of communication ossify into suspicion.
In the Mood for a Desi Robin Hood
Modi’s demonetisation gambit has paid off and opened the door to bolder reforms.
At The Mainland's Stolid Defence
Cruelly barred from joining cricket’s mainstream for long, Northeastern states have decided on a final fling of the ball
'The Uttarakhand Mafia Has Gone Into Hiding'
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat has inherited huge challen­ges—corruption, exodus from border villa­ges, under-development and more. In an interview with Bula Devi, he spells out the measures he has taken to overcome these challenges and put the state on the road to progress. Excerpts:
The Tamil Gag Raj
A cartoonist’s recent arrest is no exception, leaders in Tamil Nadu have always pounded the press.
The Munsif's Mother Tongue
Reform of the lower judiciary is imperative, but a national service will run roughshod over the federal principle, social justice and linguistic rights.
Super Toil Across Years Begets Power
India, still a ‘balancing power’, is central to Trump’s NSS. To reap its benefits, we need long work on core interests.
Nationalism Made In USA
Defence cooperation is part of India’s increasing subordination to US geostrategy
‘The Congress Didn't Respect My Dad After His Death'
Less than three years after its founding, the YSR Congress fell short of power in Andhra Pradesh by just 2 per cent of the votes in 2014 . Its leader Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy, in the middle of a padayatra ahead of the 2019 election, speaks to Outlook about the circumstances of his dramatic departure from the Congress, the problems facing the state today and what he intends to do.
The Glue Of Contradiction
Both the BJP and the PDP know it’s best to carry on together despite pulling J&K in opposite directions
Mutter Needs More Courage
Angela Merkel’s smaller victory means sterner challenges. Then there’s the AfD threat.
The Crooked Public Schools Road
Unrecognised and illegal, budget schools run by slumlords fleece and fool working-class parents
Only-For-Profit Schools
How private schools work around the bar on profiteering and rake in the moolah
'Police Chased Us Even Into Our Hostel Rooms. We Want An Apology From The V-C'
BANARAS Hindu University’s campus is one of the largest in Uttar Pradesh. It is accessible through several gates, the most renowned and biggest of which overlooks Lanka, a locality in Varanasi. It is at this gate that hundreds of students of BHU, mostly women scholars, were protesting since 6 am on September 21. It is from this historic site that they were lathicharged by police and chased into their hostels. Videos of the all-woman crowd being beaten by police have since gone viral, sending shockwaves through the country.The women students had come out in protest after an incident of sexual harassment on the campus, for which the BHU administration blamed the victim. She was the first to step out to protest against the unequal treatment of women in the university and the lack of basic safety norms there. She was soon joined by other hostel residents, and as she shaved her head in protest, became a symbol of all BHU women students’ demands.