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A Small Leap Forward: Chhattisgarh, Mining, Democracy and Gumipal

The year 2026 marks a century of mining in Chhattisgarh. In 1926, mining began at the Jhagrakhand colliery in the erstwhile princely state of Korea. Over the next hundred...

Your lordships, beware!

A subtle, steady and perceptible erosion has, and is,...

Conniving state

The most subversive factor in Gujarat is not so...

Subversive Sangh

With the BJP controlling the central government, the threat...

Servile service

  A frontal attack on communalism will be ineffective if...

Partisan police

That the Indian police have lost their credibility with...

Law and order: Who cares?

District magistrates and superintendents of police must be punished...

Protectors turn predators

If state authorities wantonly let violent mobs target innocents,...

Rights of ‘majorities’?

The Vajpayee-led government’s argument before the Supreme Court undermines...

Reforms now!

To curb communal violence the nexus between politicians, criminals...

Nothing ‘voluntary’ about it

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