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Aurangzeb

New perspectives on Aurangzeb

A miniature painting depicting Aurangzeb.

Academics and history writers are looking afresh at the regnal years of the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb to show him as being less tyrannical than he was thought to be while he continues to live in popular memory as a bigot who destroyed temples and imposed the jizya on non-Muslims. By ZIYA US SALAM

Related: ‘They want to treat Aurangzeb as a political football’

Interview: Akeel Bilgrami

On fascism and the ‘movement vacuum’

Akeel Bilgrami

Interview with Akeel Bilgrami, professor of philosophy at Columbia University. By KUNAL SHANKAR

Space

Stellar feat

The launch of the PSLV-C37 from Sriharikota on February 15.

ISRO puts 104 satellites into orbit in a single launch, in itself an achievement, but the real challenge was to release them in a predetermined sequence and time frame, ensuring that they did not collide. By T.S. SUBRAMANIAN

West Bengal

Brand Ambassador may yet survive

The Ambassador taxi stand at Howrah station, Kolkata. The car still retains a nostalgic value for most Indians.

THE iconic Ambassador car got a fresh lease of life after the French carmaker Peugeot of the Groupe PSA bought the Ambassador brand from...

West Bengal

Striking fear

Congress and Left MLAs demonstrating against the property damage Bill after walking out of the Assembly on February 8.

Two Bills passed recently by the West Bengal Assembly, one to crush any voice of opposition and the other to wrest complete control of government-aided institutions of higher education, reflect the Trinamool Congress government’s authoritarian tendencies. By SUHRID SANKAR CHATTOPADHYAY

Health care

For affordable stents

A bare metal stent, or BMS (left), and a drug-eluting stent (DES), the two kinds of stents most widely used in India. The BMS is a mesh-like tube of thin wire without a coating. The DES is covered with a coating and slowly releases a drug in the artery in which it is introduced to block cell proliferation.

The fixing of ceiling prices for stents is much delayed and is at best a piecemeal intervention in a health-care industry that continues to remain unconscionably unregulated. By T.K. RAJALAKSHMI

Tamil Nadu

Keezhadi dig to continue

An aerial view of the excavation.

ON February 20, the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) granted permission in writing to its Superintending Archaeologist, K. Amarnath...

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Interview: Audrey Truschke

‘They want to treat Aurangzeb as a political football’

audrey

Interview with Audrey Truschke, the author of “Aurangzeb: The Man and The Myth”. By ZIYA US SALAM

Interview: Thomas Isaac

Towards decentralisation 1

Thomas Isaac, Finance Minister, Kerala.

Interview with Thomas Isaac, Finance Minister of Kerala, on the State government’s bid to launch a “People’s Campaign” for the implementation of the State’s 13th Five Year Plan. By R. KRISHNAKUMAR in Thiruvananthapuram

Cricket Administration

The game wins 1

Members of the Committee of Administrators, Diana Edulji, Vikram Limaye and Vinod Rai.

The Supreme Court begins work on cleaning up cricket administration in India by putting a committee headed by former CAG Vinod Rai in charge of the BCCI until the Lodha Committee’s recommendations are implemented and new office-bearers are elected. By VIJAY LOKAPALLY

Assembly elections: Punjab

Change on the cards

AAP national convener and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal introducing Jarnail Singh, AAP candidate, at an election rally in Lambi on January 20.

The Aam Aadmi Party appears to have an edge over its rivals in Punjab although voters in the three regions are divided between the Congress and the new party, clearly rejecting the SAD-BJP alliance. By AKSHAY DESHMANE in Bathinda and Amritsar

Related: AAP hopeful of big win

Related: ‘Congress all set to make a clean sweep’

Assembly elections

AAP hopeful of big win

Bhagwant Mann.

THE Aam Aadmi Party’s campaign committee chairman for Punjab, Bhagwant Mann, says the AAP will perform better than its record performanc...

Essay

Three phases of Indian renaissance 2

Raja Ram Mohan Roy.

The way to stem the increasingly declining values in society is to rethink the relationship between culture and politics in a manner in which culture is spurred by politics and politics is refined by culture. It is time to think about a fourth phase of the Indian renaissance. By K.N. PANIKKAR

Demonetisation

Digital illusions 1

$Credit card transactions still account for a small fraction of business in the country although many establishments, such as this store in Hyderabad, have begun accepting cards following demonetisation.$

The Watal Committee’s report presents the government with an impossible road map to a cashless nirvana. By V. SRIDHAR

Public Health

‘Removing drug price control will be devastating’

S. Srinivasan, managing trustee of LOCOST.

Interview with S. Srinivasan, managing trustee, the generic drug maker Low Cost Standard Therapeutics. By LYLA BAVADAM

Assembly elections

‘Congress all set to make a clean sweep’

Amarinder Singh, Punjab Congress president.

“PUNJAB will never accept a Haryanvi Chief Minister who will not think twice before selling off the State’s interests to the neighbourin...

Assembly elections: Uttarakhand

Errors of judgement 1

Chief Minister Harish Rawat with MLAs after the floor test on May 10.

The BJP’s failed attempts to topple the Rawat government and its overt support to Congress rebels could sound the death knell for the party’s prospects in the upcoming Assembly elections. By PURNIMA S. TRIPATHI

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