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Cauvery Chronicles II: Ponni’s Perish

This story was first published on February 23, 2019. It has been republished today.

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Pakistan is humming with optimism. What’s happened to India?

To say that humanity is facing unprecedented challenges as we turn the page to this new decade is quite the understatement. We live in an age defined by information, and where misinformation plays a pivotal part in shaping our worldview. It’s not hard to imagine why so many polarised opinions…

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Digital Policy series: Who should be responsible for curbing hate speech and fake news?

In this fourth episode of our Digital Policy series in collaboration with The Dialogue, Manisha Pande speaks to Rishab Bailey, legal consultant at the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, Sarvjeet Singh, executive director and founding member of Centre for Communication Governance at the National Law University Delhi, and…

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How the Hindu man’s crisis of masculinity fuels Hindutva

As I browse my Twitter timeline, surfing through replies by people clearly identifying themselves as staunch Hindus and, more importantly, as Narendra Modi’s supporters, a common theme emerges: among other religious and political iconography, they use as their display pictures the image of an angry Hanuman’s face, bathed in half…

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Delhi’s Central Vista: Why historians are against redeveloping it

Exactly 108 years ago, on December 12, 1911, at the coronation of King George V as Emperor of India, he declared, “We have decided upon the transfer of the seat of the Government of India from Calcutta to the ancient capital of Delhi”.

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Lies, false equivalence, diversions, ad hominem attacks: That’s TV media’s spin on JNU violence

If nothing, a section of the Indian TV media should be awarded for its consistency. Issues, and the news cycles around it, come and go but the medium’s tropes and persistence to spin narratives remain the same.

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Why The Hindu might be pushing civil services aspirants to the Left

On August 2, 1922, British Prime Minister David Lloyd George addressed the parliament about the administrative edifice in India. It was over 125 years since Charles Cornwallis had sown the seeds of the Indian Civil Service in 1793. Seventy years had passed since the Macaulay Committee institutionalised it as a…

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The Hindu is now synonymous with civil services aspirants. What brought on this cult readership?

“This is a newspaper to be studied, not read.”

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After five months of lockdown, journalists in Kashmir fear for the survival of their profession

It was almost midnight on August 14. At his home in South Kashmir’s Tral in Pulwama, Irfan Amin Malik, a journalist with Greater Kashmir, was getting ready to sleep when soldiers scaled the walls and banged on his door.

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How Saffron Supremacists are using religion to polarise India

Interrogating the mechanics of power in security, territory and population, French philosopher Michel Foucault coined the term “governmentality” to explain how governments try to produce citizens who obediently follow policies and practices through which subjects are governed. In the modern day, it translates to the state legitimising its power through…

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Teaser: Rajeev Gowda on India’s economy and how to put the Congress back on the political map

Rajeev Gowda is a Rajya Sabha MP, national spokesperson of the Congress party, and a former professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Bengaluru. In a conversation with Meghnad S, Gowda talks about the major factors dampening India’s economy.

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#HaryanaResults: Why the Jats are disillusioned with the BJP

Results of the assembly elections in Maharashtra and Haryana were declared today. The outcome in Haryana was far from what most exit polls had predicted. The BJP under Manohar Lal Khattar was expected to bag up to over 75 of the 90 seats on offer. Current trends indicate the party…

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What the Ilhan Omar-Aarti Tikoo Singh spat at US Congress hearing on Kashmir says about Indian journalism

The Indian media was willy-nilly in focus at, of all places, the United States House of Representatives on Tuesday when Congresswoman Ilhan Omar pointedly told Aarti Tikoo Singh, a prominent and professionally well-regarded journalist that she ought not to present a sarkari viewpoint.

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BCCI’s Ganguly, Team India’s Kohli: Indian cricket now has two power centres

There is something deceptive about people wanting you to believe in the larger story — they tend to conceal how much they want to tell you their part of it. That is likely to become increasingly clear as an assertive Sourav Ganguly takes over as president of the Board of…

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‘Propaganda politics of BJP’: Why BHU students aren’t impressed by Amit Shah’s call to rewrite India’s history

Last week, Amit Shah was at Banaras Hindu University to inaugurate a seminar on Skandagupta Vikramaditya, the 5th century Gupta emperor. Addressing a gathering of academicians, the home minister said there was a need to rewrite India’s history from a new perspective. Why? Because history, as it’s taught today, doesn’t…

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Political game: Is Sourav Ganguly’s elevation as BCCI president part of the BJP’s design for Bengal?

In 1996, a lanky young left-handed batsman — Sourav Ganguly — announced himself to the cricketing world when he scored a scintillating debut century at Lord’s, the mecca of the sport. Even when he became the captain of the Indian cricket team, he took Indian cricket to new heights by…

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Why Haryana’s Jats are disillusioned with the BJP

October is a time of transition for the Jats in Haryana: the landed community prepares to harvest their crops. The day starts at dawn, with men walking out to the fields and women to hand pumps. Afternoons are reserved for hookah and siesta, evenings are for taking care of their…

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Vivek Doval vs The Caravan: His business partner accuses magazine of publishing ‘incorrect facts’

Vivek Doval’s defamation suit against The Caravan magazine went through another hearing on Thursday. Amit Sharma, a key witness in the case, was questioned in the Rouse Avenue Court of Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal. He accused the magazine of publishing “incorrect facts and insinuations”.

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Kishore Kunal: Meet the former policeman whose Ayodhya map was torn up in the Supreme Court

Beyond a city landmark or the contentious Bobby case of 1983, a legendary Patna cop continues to stay afloat in public memory. Kishore Kunal, former Indian Police Service officer of the 1972 batch, had one such moment yesterday.

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Smoke and mirrors: Indian government’s ban on e-cigarettes sparks debate about its intention

Latching on to an emerging global trend, the Indian government on September 18 banned e-cigarettes, citing health risks to youth and children. The ban covers the manufacture, sale, import, export, and advertising of all electronic nicotine delivery systems, or Ends.

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#DreamGirl: The story of small town India’s male fantasy

“Ayushmann Khurrana’s Dream Girl is on a rampage. The film has minted ₹16.42 crore on the second day of its release,” gushed India Today on September 15.

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#Gurugram: Laid-off workers wait for automobile sector revival

Seated at the roundabout in Manesar’s “Labour Chowk”, Malik is hoping that some work might come his way today. The worry lines on his face narrate the entire story of what is brewing in India’s automobile sector.

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Is legacy media muddying waters and claiming digital space?

After the Indian government introduced a cap of 26% on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in digital media platforms on August 28, a number of articles have thrown light on the shortcomings of the move, calling it “restrictive”, “regressive” and “confusing”.

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How a key petition pending in SC raises questions on the finality of NRC in Assam

Matiur Rahman has been waging a legal battle against the inconsistencies that exist in India’s National Register for Citizens (NRC) regime since November 2012. Some of the questions that prompted his writ petition to the Supreme Court of India were: How could there be one standard citizenship law for the…

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Daily Dose Ep 132: #Chandrayaan2, NIA, Ratul Puri and more

In this episode of Daily Dose, Snigdha Sharma brings you the latest stories from India, El Salvador and the moon!

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