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Is India really shining?

Not if you compare it to China, not if you study the indicators of public welfare, not if you look at centralisation...

By Mohan Guruswamy, Abhishek Kaul and Vishal Handa

/ 1 Dec 2003

Victimising rivers of the south

Even as the Indian Ministry of Water Resources has been maintaining that it is inching closer and closer to implementing the first of the proposed 30 links under the grand

By Sudhirendar Sharma

/ 1 Nov 2003

Softening the Line of Control

Three alternative routes are better than the road between Srinagar and Muzafarrabad which New Delhi has offered to open. The opening the Srinagar-Muzafarrabad road network is one of the confidence

By The Editors

/ 1 Nov 2003

Riparian unilateralism

New Delhi has an extravagant vision. 56 million tones of cement, 2 million tones of steel, 32 dams, and 30 canals, spread over 9, 600 kilometres linking 37 rivers will

By Mrinmoy Bhuyan

/ 1 Nov 2003

Hindutva’s Hoax

Taking on the postcolonial postmodernists and reinstating the Enlightenment

By S Anand

/ 1 Oct 2003

The contemporary politics of ancient history

THE VEDIC PEOPLE Their History and Geography Rajesh Kochhar Orient Longman, Hyderabad 2000, Paperback, 259 pp ISBN 81 250 1080 7 IRs 275 By Rhoderick Chalmers The search for origins

By Rhoderick Chalmers

/ 1 Oct 2003

Fishing for trouble?

The burgeoning problems of the fisher people of Tamil Nadu do not catch the ears of the powerful, either in the state or the centre. Madras seems to be far

By Syed Ali Mujtaba

/ 1 Oct 2003

Mining uranium in the mountains

In Domiasat, in the West Khasi hills of northeast India there is trouble brewing. The story dates back to 1976, when the Atomic Minerals Division (AMD) of the Atomic Energy

By Nava Thakuria

/ 1 Oct 2003

Rivers of collective belonging

Continuing the debate on the river linking proposal of the Government of India, a Kathmandu-based water engineer-turned-social auditor examines the history of the emergence of the hydraulic technocracy in the Subcontinent and the principles on which it operates.

By Ajaya Dixit

/ 1 Oct 2003

Comfortably numb

The cure is part of the cause in this case; as Dalits avail themselves of the advantages of reservation in India, and awareness of rights increases, the status quo of

By The Editors

/ 1 Sep 2003

Mythology of bravery

Controversy erupted on the floor of the lower house of the Indian parliament, during the debate on the no-confidence motion against the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government in New Delhi.

By Subhash Gatade

/ 1 Sep 2003

The judge, the prosecutor and Best Bakery

The verdict is out and it inspires no confidence, either in the police or in the judiciary.

By Biraj Swain and Somnath Vatsa

/ 1 Sep 2003