Culture Chaos
It’s billed as Asia’s largest talent show of youth. But the Kerala State Schools’ Youth Festival is more known for the complaints and court cases filed every year by participants and their parents. Binu Karunakaran reports on the state’s most controversial arts festival.



When the police wage war
Unfortunately, neither the recent strike by Manipur Rifles, nor the three-day strike in July by the 18,000 strong Bihar Police association created the kind of popular concern they should have.



No jewels of the nation, these
There have been uncontradicted reports in a section of the press that V.D. Savarkar and Shyamaprasad Mookerjee are being considered for the award of Bharat Ratna. The proposal is misconceived.



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