Cameos / The Legacy for Tomorrow
From N.C.'s WritingsGurudev Rabindranath Tagore's 155th birth anniversary falls on Sunday (May 8, 2016). On this occasion we are reproducing two pieces by N.C. on Tagore written 75 years ago, in 1941....
View ArticleAttack on Bipan Chandra's Views on Bhagat Singh - A Rejoinder
The following is a rejoinder to the attack on Prof Bipan Chandra for his views on Bhagat Singh. The rejoinder is by the co-authors of the book India's Struggle for Independence.A vicious attack was...
View ArticleA Tribute to Gerassimos Arsenis (May 1931 - April 2016)
Prof Gerassimos Arsenis expired in Athens on April 19, 2016. He was an economist of international repute, an eminent international civil servant, a pioneer in the realm of ideas of international...
View ArticleVivekananda and the Sangh Parivar
by Ashok CellyIn his celebrated Chicago address, Swami Vivekananda declared that he was “proud to belong to a religion which had taught the world both tolerance and universal acceptance”. He also took...
View ArticleAlternative National Plan and State-level Plans Badly Needed
COMMUNICATIONAt a time when the processes and infra-structure of planning have been badly derailed in the country with the unceremonious dismantling of the Planning Commission, a challenge that should...
View ArticleTables Turned on BJP in Chopper Deal Debate
EDITORIALThey had come prepared to put the Opposition Congress on the mat. ‘They' meaning the new nominated member in the Upper House, Subramanian Swamy, and Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar in...
View ArticleWould Aung San Suu Kyi succeed in freeing Burma from Army's Dominance?
by Monaem SarkerAung San Suu Kyi, Burma's pro-democracy leader and Nobel Peace Laureate, spent more than 15 years in detention, most of it under house arrest. She was released from her current third...
View ArticleSpectre of Influx
by Samit KarIndia is now witnessing Assembly elections in five States covering the vast expanse of the country. Of the five States where new governments are to be formed subsequent to the poll, West...
View ArticleModi's Nepal Conundrum
The India-Nepal relationship is staring at the abyss. It has been on a roller-coaster through the past two-year period of the BJP Government, and of late, hurtling down the hill uncontrollably. A...
View ArticleTowards a Democratic Union of South Asia An Idea Whose Time Has Come
One out of five persons in the world lives in South Asia. This is also a region where a very large number of farm animals live and where there is a rich diversity of other life forms and their diverse...
View ArticleLest We Forget
Several noted personalities passed away in the last few days,On April 27 veteran CPI-M leader and former Education Minister in the West Bengal Left Front Ministry, Kanti Biswas, 84, breathed his last...
View ArticleLucid Account of Pakistan's Existence and Future
BOOK REVIEWCALL FOR ISLAMABAD'S TRANSFORMATION TO MAKE IT GOVERNABLE AND FOCUSSED ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTAejaz Ahmad and Zaboor AhmadPakistan: Between Mosque and Military by Hussain Haqqani; Penguin...
View ArticleThe Inheritance of the Congress Socialist Party
by Prem SinghAt the time of the establishment of the Congress Socialist Party (CSP) on May 17, 1934 in Patna, under the chairmanship of the patriarch of the Indian Socialist Movement, Acharya Narendra...
View ArticleDo Educational Institutions need Lectures on Patriotism?
by RAM PUNIYANIThe issues related to our educational institutions' patriotism started coming up to the fore with this government coming to power (May 2014). One after the other news of govern-ment...
View ArticleMaking Sense of the Struggle at JNU: A Call for Action
by Vikas BajpaiThe following article was written before the indefinite hunger strike by the JNU students ended following the Court order to keep the authorities' disciplinary action in abeyance by...
View ArticleElections: Trends and Projections
From N.C.'s WritingsIn the midst of a general election, it is obviously unfair to predict who or which party is going to emerge victorious or be in a position to form the next government. This is...
View ArticleIndia, Eurasia, SCO: What Needs to be Done
by Michael ToddOn account of its preoccupation with efforts to develop strategic ties with the US and advance its “Look East” policy, India has overlooked the importance of the Eurasian region which is...
View ArticleWar for Water in India
by P. Sakthivel“The World Cannot Survive without Water and Morality Cannot Exist without Rains.”—Thirukkural (20)“Anyone who can solve the problems of Water will be worthy of two Nobel Prizes—one for...
View ArticleBetter Water Management will Also Help in Resolution of Inter-State Water...
COMMUNICATIONWater disputes involving two or more States have frequently become a source of avoidable tensions in India. One recent instance is the conflict which has emerged once again over the...
View ArticleMahatma Gandhi and Bharat Mata ki Jai
by S.N. SAHUNationalism has always been a driving force in uniting people and mobilising them on diverse issues. In many phases of history humanity has witnessed the use of nationalism as a fierce...
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