Monday, 30th October 2017

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India

Never too early to bid Adhia adieu

Hasmukh Adhia

Finance minister Arun Jaitley uses Facebook to announce retirement of GST’s poster boy

By Jayanta Roy Chowdhury and J.P. Yadav

India

Zakia Jafri

Gujarat riots: The journey of the Zakia Jafri case

By Teesta Setalvad

Books

Ground reality in Pakistan’s ‘Azad’ Kashmir

By Upala Sen

Culture

What we the People did to you the People

By Sankarshan Thakur

India

SC to Asthana: How can you go to cabinet secretary?

By The Telegraph

Must Read
A man spitting at Fraser Road in Patna.

Opinion

Being nationalist is easier than being civilised

By Anup Sinha
An 1875 sketch of British military with Nagas

Books

How East India Company colonised the Northeast

By Moumita Chaudhuri
The festival opened with Deewar, first staged by Prithviraj Kapoor 73 years ago

Culture

Prithvi Theatre celebrates its 40th birthday

By Alpana Chowdhury
The SCB Medical College and Hospital in Cuttack on Saturday.

Odisha

Cuttack hospital now has wards for destitutes

By Lalmohan Patnaik
Aamir Khan's Thug's of Hindostan has let down box office expectation

Bollywood

Egos of Hindostan: Aamir Khan can go wrong

By Bharathi S. Pradhan
Features
DEA agent, Enrique ‘Kiki’ Camarena, played flawlessly by Michael Peña (second from left), is obsessed with getting ahead of an apathetic system
In his book, India Ahead, 2025 and Beyond, Jalan lays out a slew of measures for accelerating India’s growth
The Khelna-Bati series is a collection of about 45 images shot in warmer tones with a sepia hangover.
Comment
The new-found popularity of ‘toxic’ can only be explained by the widening of the scope of its use.
French President Emmanuel Macron has argued that defending the ability to empathise must be conceived as the benchmark of patriotism in a globalised world
A boy, his father, and a cow rummage for scraps on a street during the Bengal famine of 1943
If you are from a country with a prime minister who has been too scared to even once hold a proper press conference with hostile questioning, you would regard Donald Trump's post-election presser with horror and admiration
Dennis sometimes causes acute embarrassment by speaking the truth at the wrong times
The BJP and regional parties are going all out to wrest Mizoram from the Congress but Luizinho Faleiro (pictured), the Congress general secretary in charge of Mizoram, does not foresee any threat, either from the saffron party or regional parties like the Mizo National Front.
Donald Trump campaigns in Tennessee. Moderate Republicans are worried that he remains a credible force within the party
Enforcement Directorate officials raided Amnesty International India's office in Bangalore on October 25 for alleged violation of foreign funding norms
Former CBFC chief Pahlaj Nihalani has moved the Bombay High Court after the CBFC ordered him to incorporate 20 cuts to his movie in order to get a certificate.
Liberal values of freedom of speech and dissent, tolerance and respect for institutions of democracy, are under attack around the world

The paradoxes inherent in liberalism

By Krishnan Srinivasan

Roderick Macfarquhar
A study by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization confirms that poor-quality diet poses a greater threat to public health across the world than malaria, tuberculosis or measles
Detail of Bharhut Stupa at the Indian Museum, Calcutta
Sardar K. M. Panikkar opening celebrations in the capital to mark the inauguration of Kerala on November 1, 1956.
Human activity has resulted in the annihilation of 60 per cent of the vertebrate population in 50 years
Congress supporters celebrate V.S. Ugrappa's win in in Bellary, Karnataka, on Tuesday.
Hundreds of thousands marched in London on October 20 for a referendum on the final Brexit deal. The People's Vote campaign group claimed attendance by 700,000. Attendees included London mayor Sadiq Khan, and celebrities such as Eddie Izzard, Andy Serkis and Chris Addison

A great democratic moment

By Timothy Garton Ash

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Firebrand singes Sabarimala pilgrims

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How East India Company colonised the Northeast

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Why it’s dope: Binge-watching Narcos: Mexico

By Saloni Meghani

Prithvi Theatre celebrates its 40th birthday

By Alpana Chowdhury

Designer Bibhu Mohapatra is a red carpet rocker

By Smita Roy Chowdhury

A photo show that raises questions on identity

By Anannya Sarkar

Mirzapur: Poetry and gore in the hinterland

By Jai Arjun Singh

Walk on the wild side at Satpura Reserve

By Supriya Newar

Bohemian Rhapsody doesn't feel remotely authentic

By A.O. Scott/ New York Times News Service

'We'll stand up to them in our untidy ways'

By The Telegraph

3 quirky Indian tales from French Reunion Island

By Sudha Pillai

To read the mind of behemoth RSS

By Shaikh Mujibur Rehman