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Challenges for democracy

The road ahead

Pakistan courageously voted for democracy, but the new Prime Minister has a minefield of problems facing him. Will he be able to deliver on his promises, particularly when the Army holds the veto? By ANITA JOSHUA in Islamabad
Politics of ecology

The Centre’s notification of a 100-km stretch along the Bhagirathi river in Uttarakhand as an eco-sensitive zone evokes a strong reaction from the Congress government in the State as well as from the BJP, besides sparking protest demonstrations. By PURNIMA S. TRIPATHI
MGNREGS

Floundering flagship

The Comptroller and Auditor General finds operational, monitoring and functional flaws in the rural employment guarantee scheme, the UPA government’s flagship poverty alleviation programme. BY T.K. RAJALAKSHMI
Skewed plan

The Department of Telecommunications’ plan to revive BSNL and MTNL primarily hinges on massive job cuts while leaving unaddressed policy decisions that have favoured private operators and pushed the PSUs into a financial mess. By SAGNIK DUTTA in New Delhi
Living a faith

Asghar Ali Engineer’s activism stemmed from his deep-rooted beliefs, though as an independent thinker he chose to believe in a modern, humanistic interpretation of Islam. By LYLA BAVADAM

Cover Story

Cautious optimism 1

Indian soldiers patrol past a barbed wire fence near the Line of Control, which divides Kashmir between India and Pakistan, in Silikot, some 130 km north of Srinagar, in January when a series of tit-for-tat attacks threatened to ratchet up bilateral tensions. With Nawaz Sharif returning to power, there is hope in India that relations will improve.

New Delhi welcomes the election results but remains unsure whether Nawaz Sharif will be able to defy his fundamentalist support base and improve his country's relations with India. By JOHN CHERIAN

Hope in the Valley

Manto’s Pakistan

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India-China bilateral relations

Crossing the river, feeling the stones

External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang in the Purple Hall of the central leadership compound, Zhongnanhai, on May 10.

FOUR days before he was to fly out to New Delhi, Li Keqiang, China’s Premier, invited a visiting delegation of 100 Indian students to Zh...

A run for your money 1

S. Sreesanth

The spot-fixing scandal exposes the BCCI-run Indian Premier League’s “greed is good” dictum. The players involved have only taken their masters’ cues when it comes to the lure of money. By VIJAY LOKAPALLY

Related: ‘This certainly was not cricket’

Rare encounters

Marten up close

A Nilgiri marten in the Pampadum Shola National Park.

A close encounter with the Nilgiri marten, the elusive mammal endemic to the Western Ghats, after a 20-year-long wait. Text by G. SHAHEED and Photographs by N.A. NASEER.

The Nation

Handshake across the Himalayas 2

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh before a meeting in New Delhi on May 20.

The chief thrust during Chinese Premier Li Keqiang’s visit was on building greater trust between the two countries, which together have more than one-third of the world’s population. By JOHN CHERIAN

A unique movement

Dubious distinction

Taking people’s views

Going paperless

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Doomed democracy

Sanjay Kak. Through his writings and documentaries, he has been exploring the conditions of popular insurgency.

The burden of Sanjay Kak’s film Red Ant Dream is to underline the necessity of resistance and to show that often in history the responsibility to resist has fallen on the poorest and most innocent citizens. By ASAD ZAIDI

Question of survival

A drain in Ghasna village in Haryana, near the catchment area of the Ghaggar river, which was desilted using manual labour under the MGNREGS. Desilting work was discontinued, leading to the drain getting blocked by weeds once again.

Despite the negative observations and criticisms, there is a strong case for MGNREGS works to be continued even in States with high per capita incomes. BY T.K. RAJALAKSHMI in Hisar and Fatehabad

Alexei Saltykov

Uncoloured by colonial prejudices

The Young Maharaja of Gwalior with courtiers. Lithograph, 1850.

Russian Prince Alexei Saltykov’s paintings and writings on India speak of his admiration and understanding of a colonised people at a time when prejudices ran high among European colonisers. By SUNEET CHOPRA

Development Issues

Inclusion mantra

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh greets ADB President Takehiko Nakao at the 46th annual meeting of the Board of Governors of the ADB in Greater Noida on May 4.

The collapse of the global economy has forced development financial institutions such as the Asian Development Bank to shift their focus from capitalism at all costs to compassionate capitalism. By G. SRINIVASAN

Death at birth 2

India has persistently high rates of newborn mortality, over three lakh a year, and accounts for 29 per cent of all first-day deaths globally. By R. Suresh

World Affairs

Looming civil war

The makeshift Sunni protest camp in Hawija destroyed by the Iraqi forces, on April 23.

Sectarian violence between Shias and Sunnis escalates as rebel outfits at the forefront of the conflict in Syria get active in the country. By JOHN CHERIAN

Three-horse race

Vote and divide

A mission to Honduras

Care sans frontiers

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Volume: 30
Issue: 11
Issue Date: 14-05-2013

Face to face with the Nilgiri marten

Columns

ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES

C.P. Chandrasekhar

The neoliberal trap

The spending cuts the Manmohan Singh government has imposed on itself are a consequence of its neoli»

PREOCCUPATIONS

Jayati Ghosh

Whose public interest?

The government of India has taken the stifling of dissent in the name of public interest to great le»

UNMEDIATED

Sashi Kumar

The U.S. media muddle

The mainstream influential media are caught in a bind—where to draw the line on governmental action »

THROUGH MY WINDOW

K.Satchidanandan

Voices from the hills

The poets from the north-eastern region have to meet the double challenge of truth and liberty, of i»

Books

Ventriloquist dummy

A forensic analysis of the collusion between the U.S. and Israel, dispelling the view of the U.S. as an “honest broker” in the negotiations with the Palestinians. By VIJAY PRASHAD

Cultural sultanate

Liberal view

For radical freedom

What the Romans can teach us

Mapping Sahmat

Planning failures

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