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HERITAGE ARCHAEOLOGY Madurai’s Sangam past WORLD AFFAIRS CHINA Structural shifts SASHI KUMAR COLUMN Representing wars SECTIONS MRINALINI SARABHAI Classicist & activist Mrinalini Sarabhai performing Bharatanatyam. She played a crucial role in popularising Bharatanatyam and Kathakali the world over. Mrinalini Sarabhai (1918-2016) believed strongly in tradition but did not hesitate to face contemporary issues head on. She gave classical dance new directions and a new vocabulary. By SUNIL KOTHARI COVER STORY The death of a Dalit scholar At the memorial to Rohith Vemula at the University of Hyderabad. Rohith Vemula’s suicide in the University of Hyderabad brings into the open the deep-seated caste biases and discrimination against Dalit students, especially in institutions of higher education in the country. By KUNAL SHANKAR Related: ‘This is an anti-Dalit government’ PROFILE Who was Rohith Vemula? Rohith Vemula's brother, Raja Chaitanya; mother, Radhika; and sister, Neelima, addressing the media outside the University of Hyderabad campus on January 23. The Bharatiya Janata Party’s attempts to ascertain his caste identity and influence his family are meant to serve a political objective as the names listed as the perpetrators of his death can upset its social engineering project in an election year. By KUNAL SHANKAR INTERVIEW: SUKHADEO THORAT ‘Exclusionary practices are deeply pervasive’ Sukhadeo Thorat: Interview with Professor Sukhadeo Thorat, Chairman of the Indian Council of Social Science Research. By AJOY ASHIRWAD MAHAPRASHASTA ESSAY Intelligence & policy July, 1987: Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and the Sri Lankan President Jayewardene sign the historic Indo-Sri Lanka accord in the country's capital, Colombo. It is high time that the rogue elephant that is the Research and Analysis Wing acquires a strong statutory mahout—a charter enacted by Parliament. This requires an all-party consensus. By A.G. NOORANI MRINALINI SARABHAI Classicist & activist Mrinalini Sarabhai performing Bharatanatyam. She played a crucial role in popularising Bharatanatyam and Kathakali the world over. Mrinalini Sarabhai (1918-2016) believed strongly in tradition but did not hesitate to face contemporary issues head on. She gave classical dance new directions and a new vocabulary. By SUNIL KOTHARI 12345 Cover Story A suicide retold 2 Senthil Kumar. In the wake of Rohith Vemula’s suicide, it is time to revisit the 2008 death of a scholar from Tamil Nadu at the University of Hyderabad, which is a telling reminder that casteism has been rampant there for years. By ILANGOVAN RAJASEKARAN Cold calculations Sectarian agenda Law and loophole Bottom of the heap ‘This is an anti-Dalit government’ For a strong forum The pain of a Dalit Systemic barriers More Cover Story » KERALA Singed by a scam Chief Minister Oommen Chandy before the Justice Sivarajan Commission inquiring into the “solar scam” case, in Thiruvananthapuram on January 25. Three years after it came to light, the solar scam has now gathered enough steam to threaten the State government itself. By R. KRISHNAKUMAR DELHI Capital tussle Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal with Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia at a press conference in New Delhi on January 25. The stand-off between the Delhi government and the Centre over the suspension of DANICS officers has led to an administrative gridlock. By PURNIMA S. TRIPATHI DAVID BOWIE A hero forever David Bowie launching the United States leg of his worldwide tour called David Bowie (1947-2016) was the voice of the misfit and the misunderstood. By relentlessly pushing boundaries and challenging rigid social perceptions, he helped change the way people saw the world. By SUHRID SANKAR CHATTOPADHYAY JNU Personnel matters 2 On the Jawaharlal Nehru University campus, campaigning for the BJP during the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. The appointment of the new Vice Chancellor for Jawaharlal Nehru University is the latest in the BJP’s attempts to push its saffron agenda in academic institutions. By DIVYA TRIVEDI PUBLIC SECTOR/SAIL Made of steel 2 A steel melting shop at the Salem Steel Plant in Tamil Nadu. Steel Authority of India Limited, which makes a wide range of products, has been synonymous with India’s development and is one of the country’s fastest-growing PSUs. By A CORRESPONDENT LETTER FROM AMERICA Fault line of race 1 A protester holds up a placard as Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake (left) speaks at the Conference of Mayors in Washington, D.C., on January 20. “Black Lives Matter” is a cry from the heart of the frustrated black population. A white population in despair takes refuge in the toxic language of racism. By VIJAY PRASHAD PAKISTAN Terror dots on the globe The funeral procession of a victim of the terrorist attack in Bacha Khan University in Charsadda on January 20. The deadly terrorist attack on the Bacha Khan University campus in Pakistan’s Peshawar closely follows three others in the same fortnight, in Istanbul, Jakarta and Ouagadougou. By JOHN CHERIAN TAMIL NADU Mute victims The main door of SVS Medical College of Yoga and Naturopathy at Bangaram in Villupuram district after it was sealed by revenue officials. The death of three girl students in Tamil Nadu raises serious questions about the way self-financing professional colleges run without the necessary infrastructure and teaching staff and the treatment they mete out to students. By R.K. RADHAKRISHNAN CONTROVERSY Egg on the face Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik distributing rice to Bonda tribal women at a village in Malkangiri district in 2013. The humble egg comes in handy for Congress activists to protest against the Odisha government’s large-scale bungling in issuing ration cards for cheap rice. By PRAFULLA DAS DEVELOPMENT Road map for Kerala 1 Workers at a field near Attappady in Palakkad. An initiative focussed on Kerala’s development experience exposes a worrying trend of rising inequality and proposes a strategy for sustainable and equitable growth. By R. KRISHNAKUMAR PLANTATION SECTOR Brewing resentment A tea garden in Udalguri district. Assam’s small tea growers, who contribute substantially to the total tea production in the country, get a raw deal. By T.K. RAJALAKSHMI in Udalguri, Dibrugarh and Tinsukia V.P. SHARMA Pioneer of malaria research V.P. Sharma V.P. Sharma (1938-2015) built a formidable research organisation from scratch and contributed greatly to the control of malaria at a time when it was a serious threat. By P.K. RAJAGOPALAN CHINA Structural shifts China Railway's Harmony Bullet trains at a maintenance base. China is banking heavily on infrastructure projects, one of which is the Hungary-Serbia railway. It will cut the travel time between Budapest and Belgrade from eight to three hours. Three development banks—the AIIB, launched on January 16, the EBRD and the NBD—point to the emergence of new centres of power and influence in the global financial architecture. By ATUL ANEJA IRAN Iran in leap mode President Hassan Rouhani, after delivering a speech at a conference titled With the lifting of international sanctions Iran will have immediate access to its huge assets locked up in foreign banks and will look around for business partners. Will India be able to grab the opportunity? By JOHN CHERIAN INDIA-NEPAL Himalayan mess-up Madhesi MPs stage a walkout before Nepal's Parliament voted to amend the new Constitution in what was seen as an unsatisfactory attempt to accommodate the demands of the ethnic minorities, in Kathmandu on January 23. The drafting of Nepal’s new Constitution was marred by flawed processes and neglect of the concerns of the Madhesis and other marginalised groups. India’s attempts to intervene only made matters worse. By S.D. MUNI ARCHAEOLOGY Digging up Madurai’s Sangam past Potsherds with inscriptions in Tamil-Brahmi script found in trenches dug by the ASI at Keezhadi near Madurai on the banks of the Vaigai river in Tamil Nadu. The inscriptions were of Tamil names such as Eyyan, Udhiran and Aadhan, but an unusual find was a Prakrit name, The ASI’s excavations at Keezhadi near Madurai, its largest in Tamil Nadu, have unearthed hard evidence of the city’s existence in the Sangam Age of the Early Historic period. By T.S. SUBRAMANIAN Related: Tamil-Brahmi on gold bars |