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A view of the Kangla Palace in Imphal. Manipur’s predicament is closely linked to the march of the republic. The erstwhile princely state signed the Instrument of Accession but not the Merger Agreement until 1949, that too under duress.

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Why it matters how Manipur became a state

Only a sustained and imaginative policy can purge the region of its oppressive culture of protest

By Pradip Phanjoubam

Opinion

Modi's speeches are whipping up rage

By The Editorial Board
Protesters shout slogans against Pakistan during the second day of curfew in Jammu on Saturday, February 16. The army staged flag marches in sensitive localities after violence was reported during protests against the Pulwama attack

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The clamour is for more ‘surgical strikes’

By Swapan Dasgupta
People gather in Faridabad on Wednesday, February 20, to pay their last tributes to army jawan Naik Sandeep Kaliraman, who died after succumbing to injuries sustained during the encounter with militants following the Pulwama terror attack
Large public platforms like Facebook function like public notice boards

Opinion

Social platforms: threat to the nation state

By Arghya Sengupta
Azadpur vegetable market in New Delhi

Opinion

Planning, modernised. Action awaited

By Ashok V. Desai
Earlier this week, Jignesh Mevani, an elected member of the Gujarat Assembly, was stopped from speaking at the H.K. Arts College in Ahmedabad, where he had himself once studied.

Opinion

The fear of freedom in Gujarat

By Ramachandra Guha
Some say that Rajnath Singh, the Union home minister, is emulating the former Union minister and now vice-president, Venkaiah Naidu, while hailing Narendra Modi.

Opinion

Rhyme and reason

By The Telegraph
Panorama of Rohtas fortress in Punjab, Pakistan.

Opinion

Small towns that shine in Partition memoirs

By T.C.A. Raghavan
Amol Palekar had made some pointed remarks about moral policing, institutional lapses as well as the proliferation of certain kinds of ideology in the guise of artwork when he was asked, rudely, to stick to the script, as it were.

Opinion

The disturbing silence of artists on NGMA

By The Editorial Board
The measured response of the chief minister of West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee, is an example of a politician choosing to be impartial during a distinctly divisive hour.

Opinion

A measured response to Pulwama

By The Editorial Board
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Aung San Suu Kyi may try pushing the army hard, partly to revive her drooping image as a crusader for democracy and partly to gain real control over a country her father led to independence

Suu Kyi finally locks horns with Myanmar army

By Subir Bhaumik
Citizens offer tribute to the Central Reserve Police Force soldiers killed in the Pulwama terror attack by lighting candles in Bangalore on Saturday, February 16.

A manufactured outpouring of grief

By Manini Chatterjee
Susan B. Anthony (left) and Elizabeth Cady Stanton in 1891

What suffragists can teach today's leaders

By Vinati Dev
Writer Dave Eggers left a message for the official Marxist parties that have been vulgarising Marx for over a century and are now pouring lofty praise on the Communist Party of China and the Chinese government, which plans to issue each citizen a social credit score

The false god of data

By Sankar Ray
An installation by Marzia Farhana at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale

Art, capitalism and ecocide

By Soumitra Das
Not a safe time to be outside under the open skies. Not a nice feeling to be impacted by one of those pig projectiles, it can quite assuredly be said

The impact of pigs flying

By Sankarshan Thakur
Editorials
Sixty per cent of the children adopted in India between 2015 and 2018 were girls
Sixty per cent of the children adopted in India between 2015 and 2018 were girls

Adoptions of girls are up, but should we celebrate?

By The Editorial Board
Letters
The works of Nikita Gill, one of the most successful ‘Instapoets’ with around 500,000 followers, were rejected no less than 137 times by publishers
The works of Nikita Gill, one of the most successful ‘Instapoets’ with around 500,000 followers, were rejected no less than 137 times by publishers

Instagram's unexpected boost for poetry books

By The Telegraph
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