Gandhian to the core

Radha Ben remembers the noted economist and thinker who passed away on November 14

The voice of fishers

He championed fishers’ rights and conservation

Policing the police

A constable who gets corrupt officials behind bars  

Going green helps

The evidence is conclusive. Politicians who take care of the environment end up taking care of the people and their vote bank as well

Farmer who nearly became Jat-Mahatma

Tikait’s appeal had to do with earthiness and instinct

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Miracle man

Single-handedly, 62-year-old Shamjibhai Antala brings water to the arid lands of Saurashtra and reprieve to the villagers

Winners all

This year's Nobel laureates

Moving mountains

Going places

Madhya Pradesh chief minister will speak on watershed management at a world forum

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Inspired by Marx

An audacity of hope

One man, 22 years, a road

Fed up of state’s highway fixation, villagers connect themselves to the world

Real or fictional, these women are heroines of all time

From the spirited Bathsheba to Mandakini Amte, from unrecognised midwives and unsung domestic labourers to fearless tribal activist Sumani Jogdi, …

Men as the wind beneath our wings

From Mahabharata hero Bhima to Nobel Laureate Tagore, from Infosys founder Narayana Murthy to Bhagwad Gita’s Krishna, we bring to you …

Celebration of life

In a first, a Bollywood commercial flick delves into a differently abled person's sexuality

A brief mania called Hawkins

Barely 100 out of the 5,000 present at the Stephen Hawking public lecture actually understood what he said. Some felt Hawking had endorsed the …

A scholar among bureaucrats

BOOK>> HEAD COUNT, MEMOIRS OF A DEMOGRAPHER • by Ashis Bose • Penguin • `450

Zurich’s Dr Dolittle is a lawyer

ANTOINE GOETSCHEL, 51, is a Swiss government advocate for animals. A specialist in animal welfare law for 25 years, he explained to SUMANA …

"We need to think about all of us as being citizens of the same world"

Joseph E Stiglitz helped create a new branch of economics - the Economics of Information. This earned him the Nobel Prize for economics in 2001. …

The ultimate subversive

Former President K R Narayanan made power good

Art after death

Over a coffee farm

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