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Policemen patrol during the third day of curfew in Jammu after the Pulwama attack on Sunday. Pulwama didn’t erupt in a vacuum. Behind the carnage lies centuries of tortuous history, invasions, intrigue, conquests, defeats and betrayals.

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The greatest test for Modi’s realism

The post-Pulwama frenzy seems more outrage at India’s hurt pride than mourning for the murdered jawans

By Sunanda K. Datta-Ray

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Enforcing wage laws should be a high priority

By Sevanti Ninan
Nobody seems to have noticed that the Code of Wages Bill, which would have given a right to minimum wages for unorganised labour, lapsed with the end of this Lok Sabha

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We need epic storytelling, not banalities

By Shiv Visvanathan
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s attempt to invoke plastic surgery as an example of ancient science confuses science as logos with myth
Speaking about what inspired Charlotte Betts to set her novel in India, her words reminded one of Adela Quested’s experiences in the Marabar Caves in EM Forster’s A Passage to India.

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Dreams of a lost love

By Amit Roy
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

Opinion

Modi's speeches are whipping up rage

By The Editorial Board
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

By Pradip Phanjoubam
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
Large public platforms like Facebook function like public notice boards

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Social platforms: threat to the nation state

By Arghya Sengupta
Azadpur vegetable market in New Delhi

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Planning, modernised. Action awaited

By Ashok V. Desai
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

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The clamour is for more ‘surgical strikes’

By Swapan Dasgupta
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Witnesses are provided security, but despite this they sometimes turn hostile. Each such instance — the Jessica Lal murder case and the Asaram Bapu rape, for example — has subverted the process of justice. And the scale of the problem is increasing.

Witness protection: chinks in the armour

By Bhawna Gera and Kashish Makkar
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
Editorials
Breakdancing is unlikely to be a cakewalk for India, its expertise in the matter notwithstanding.
Breakdancing is unlikely to be a cakewalk for India, its expertise in the matter notwithstanding.

Let the hip Games begin

By The Editorial Board
Letters
A study published in a journal of the American Heart Association has associated artificially sweetened beverages with certain types of stroke.
A study published in a journal of the American Heart Association has associated artificially sweetened beverages with certain types of stroke.

Look before you sip

By The Telegraph
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