Journalists Report the Police Version of Crime: Seema Azad
INTERVIEWDo journalists question enough?—asks Seema Azad, the Dastak editor who was charged under the UAPA, in this interview with Shobha S.V.Thirtyseven-year old Seema Azad's calm demeanour belies the...
View ArticleCJI and Coverage of Court Cases
The following was written quite sometime ago but could not be published earlier for unavoidable reasons.The news was that the Supreme Court hadn't framed any blanket guidelines for the media coverage...
View ArticleRemembering October - November 1984
From N.C.'s WritingsEarly next week, on October 31, the country would be observing the tenth death anniversary of Indira Gandhi who had been cruelly shot down on this very day by her own security...
View ArticleA Dark Moment of Our History
October 31, 1984 witnessed one of the most gruesome incidents of our time. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated at her residence by her own security personnel. The country plunged into...
View ArticleDissolute Governments, Disillusioned People
Anna Hazare and General (Retd) V.K. Singh have called for Parliament to be dissolved immediately. They point out that the (Union) government is “looting” the people and “bending to the corporates”, and...
View Article‘Other' America Reasserts
In the midst of the unending reports of scams, affecting both the principal constituent of the ruling UPA and the main Opposition party at the Centre, the latest predicament of the BJP President facing...
View ArticleKerala: Eazhanair Combination — A Boost For Hindu Fundamentalism
August 2012 has much importance in the chronicle of communal politics in Kerala. For that was the month when leaders of two caste-based organisations decided to merge by forgetting all discords and...
View ArticleTesting Time for Non-Alignment • After Menon's Exit
From N.C.'s WritingsWith American arms flown in in consi-derable quantity, along with defence weapons from other Western countries, the scales of non-alignment are threatened to be disturbed. While the...
View ArticleRetreat from Left Politics in the Service of Bourgeoisie
BOOK REVIEWA Fistful of Dry Rice: Land, Equity and Democracy: Essays in Honour of D. Bandyopadhyay by K.B. Saxena, Manoranjan Mohanty and Sumit Chkaravartty (editors); Aakar Books, New Delhi; pages:...
View ArticleIndira Gandhi's Place In History
November 19 this year marks Indira Gandhi's ninetyfifth birth anniversary. On this occasion we are reproducing the piece the former External Affairs Minister wrote in Mainstream (October 31, 2009)....
View ArticleThe Paradox of Leadership
by Tarun PatnaikAfter the exposure of the power muscle of Mukesh Ambani over the functioning of the Congress, a few fundamental questions come to mind. It is clear that political parties need money to...
View ArticleNehru's Vision of Asia and Asian Identity: An Introspectional Foray
by Muhammad TajuddinAs a liberal intellectual, Nehru ‘discovered' India not in the spirit of self-centricism but as a champion of internationalism. Indian nationa-lism is visible in all his three...
View Article‘Indian People Unitedly Back Jawaharlal Nehru and his Policies'
The following are excerpts from the speech that Deputy Leader of the united CPI Group in Parliament delivered on the Chinese aggression in the Lok Sabha on November 10, 1962.Mr Speaker, Sir, I rise...
View ArticleWith Nehru All The Way
by Bhagwat Jha AzadHistory knows many a betrayal of friendship, but the one committed by the Chinese will go down in history as the most unfortunate and an unmatched instance of a friend being stabbed...
View ArticleRally behind Nehru
The India-China border question has reached the point of open armed conflict. The entire Chinese operation in the NEFA, started in September, was a premeditated affair, surpassing all that they had...
View ArticleThe If-ing of Nehru
by M. Chalapathi RauIf only Jawaharlal Nehru had insisted on Tibet's independence in 1950; if he had only propounded no Panchsheel with the Chinese; if only he had aligned India with the West—these are...
View ArticleThe Proclamation of Emergency
For five years, we have been the victims of Chinese aggression across our frontiers in the north. That aggression was, to begin with, rather furtive. Occasionally there were some incidents and...
View ArticleThe Chinese Aggression
On November 14 this year was observed Jawaharlal Nehru's 123rd birth anniversary. This year also marked the fiftieth anniversary of the Chinise aggression of 1962 that tragically cut short the life of...
View ArticleGood-bye Feroze
The following is the short piece by N.C. on Feroze Gandhi during the Emergency in 1976.Parliament has just repealed the Parlia-mentary Proceedings (Protection of Publication) Act which came into force...
View ArticleWhy Congress Ignored Feroze Gandhi's Birth Centenary Last Month
What has been known as the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty, most powerful in India, seems to be dropping the name of Nehru, slowly but gra-dually. Nehru is still there but in a perfunctory manner. It is really...
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