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As India, Pak duel over Gurez dam, a village in Kashmir longs for electricity

The spectacular Gurez valley lies secluded in the upper reaches of the Himalaya, tucked between the northern stretch of Kashmir, 123 km from Srinagar, and Pakistan’s southern horizon. When you tell the locals how beautiful it is, the common response is: “Oh, but you don’t want to be here in the winters.”

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#Cobrapost sting and Hindutva in the newsroom

The lines between editorial and marketing departments are more blurred than media organisations would like to acknowledge. This has been well established by documentation of paid news cases. The Cobrapost sting reinforces the fact that media’s business model is advertisement-centric.

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High petrol price: The unfairness of it all

Petrol prices in India have increased by 15 per cent in the past twelve months, and 23 per cent in the past five years. Politicians don’t often protest against food inflation, or promise price reduction of life-saving drugs or increase in minimum wages. But political outrage over increase in fuel…

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The Bedaquiline Question

One of the increasingly contentious public health issues in India is the manner in which clinical trials are conducted for new drugs and the manner in which these new drugs are subsequently approved for use on Indian patients.

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Big Media is broken – and so are we

Whatever your opinion may be on sting journalism, you cannot ignore Cobrapost’s Operation 136. When the dust settles, it will surely find a place next to sting operations like Operation West End and the Cash for Questions scam.

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Monster city

“There once was a fair city, among cities of the world, the first in fame, it hath been ruined and laid desolate, to that city I belong, Delhi is its name.” So, said the renowned poet Mir Taqi Mir, over 200 years ago. If Mir were alive today, he would…

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RSS arm bats for ITC, but says it doesn’t support tobacco

Swadeshi Jagran Manch’s (SJM) endorsement for using Indian conglomerate ITC’s Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) products over that of multinational companies comes as a bit of a surprise. SJM is, after all, an arm of the right-wing group, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).

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A review of NL Hafta by an anonymous fan, Arvind, Sneha and Ashwin

I love you guys so I’ll just get to the criticism:

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Where are the women in policymaking?

Every passing year, on International Women’s Day, there is a renewed call to legislate the Women’s Reservation Bill to enable election of women in Legislative Assemblies and Parliament. Such calls are aptly justified by data – both anecdotal and empirical – to suggest that India has failed to address the role of…

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An uncivil ‘Hindu Rashtra’

The quest for civility-based relations remains the major demand of the Dalits and Muslims of India. Civility here is considered as simply practising “humane actions” while interacting with non-group members.

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What Meghna Gulzar’s Raazi teaches us about patriotism

On a pleasant Saturday evening, fighting the introvert within me, who wishes to stay home, I decided to watch Meghna Gulzar’s spy thriller, ‘Raazi’. Alia Bhatt and the kids on screen amplified the brilliance of Gulzar Saab’s poetry and Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy’s tune. I came home humming, ‘Aae watan, watan mere aabaad rahe tu, main…

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Nawaz’s narrative: It’s not about India, it’s only about Pakistan

Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif seems to have decided that he isn’t going to go down without a fight, even if it means taking on the all-powerful, military-dominated “establishment”.

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The bustard loves the bomb

Ever since my grandfather told me about the majestic Tilor or Tuktar, the generic vernacular names for the Great Indian Bustard (GIB) found in the desert areas of south-eastern Punjab, it was my earnest desire to see the great bird. By the time I grew up, the GIB, to my…

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Social media wars: Will resurgent Congress trump complacent BJP in 2019?

A lot has changed between 2014 and 2018 in how India’s two major parties—the Congress and the BJP—work their social media ‘capabilities and handling’.

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The reality of slavery and debt bondage in India

There are approximately 18 million people in India living and working without freedom of movement, abused, and on miserably low wage.

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‘Hatred is a disease. It has to be treated’

Tucked in Delhi’s south-east, Jamia Nagar is a sprawling locality home to the Jamia Millia Islamia university as also numerous residential areas around it. It is a curiously mixed place, with small industries, cramped workshops and famous eateries jostling for space with congested housing and visibly unplanned areas. Yet, it…

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Irani, Queen of Controversy and Quarrel

So, what can Irani do to stay relevant and on top of the political sweepstakes with just the low-profile Textile Ministry in her charge? Remember the last time when she was sacked as HRD minister? Irani grabbed eyeballs, that too in the midst of an all-important BJP party leadership meeting…

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Radio In A Purse: The Indian #MeToo moment

Radio In A Purse project, a Bangalore-based initiative, is capturing students’ stories of being sexually harassed on university campuses across the city. Set up in 2017, the initiative records audio testimonies of sexual harassment by fitting purses with audio equipment. In doing so, the initiative is enabling sharing and facilitation…

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How the Citizenship Bill is reopening old wounds in the Northeast

A visit to Assam and Meghalaya by members of a Joint Parliamentary Committee examining the contentious draft Citizenship (Amendment) Bill of 2016 has brought to the fore old fractures between communities that were in the process of healing, and raised fears of fresh unrest in a region that turned towards…

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Delhi’s Yamuna: A huge septic tank

Delhi has found new ways of contaminating the Yamuna river: electronic waste. As also the subsoil and ground water: A United Nations-backed study pointed out that India generated nearly 5 per cent of electronic waste produced globally in 2016.

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TB and the woeful state of health reporting in India

In January 2017, the Indian media reported on an exceptional legal battle playing out before the Delhi High Court regarding a young lady suffering from multi-drug resistant tuberculosis, suing the Indian government for access to a new TB drug called bedaquiline that was supposed to be effective on TB patients resistant to…

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Why #WuhanSummit is path-breaking

National power is defined as the ability of a nation to attain its strategic objectives by directed action. National power is no longer restricted to the military but also includes a multiplicity of factors such as strength of the economy, human resources, availability of national resources, knowledge and science and…

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Jahangiri justice, Tughlaqi judges

Over the last few years there has been a discernible, if also disturbing, trend to involve, or even drag in the judiciary to settle political scores. While instituting all sorts of cases – fake or genuine, criminal or civil – against political rivals has for long been part and parcel…

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Why brands like Amazon unfriend actors like Swara Bhaskar

Like Hollywood, the Mumbai film industry too can offer a lesson or two to the world every once in a while. For the past two weeks or so, Swara Bhaskar, an up-and-coming Indian actress, has been at the centre of a most curious unravelling.

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#KarnatakaElections: Where some sons have risen, some set and others got eclipsed

Darshan Puttannaiah would have been sitting on the other side of the globe in Denver, US. Instead, he is traversing the length and breadth of Melkote constituency in Mandya district, contesting this Karnataka election as the candidate of Swaraj India.

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