Heat, Hate, Humbug
The times are a-steamingWith heat, hate, humbug;Victors of a street fightRomp with ominous chug chug. Money-spinners mark assentTo muscle brains of the day;Celebrities do not mind beingSlaves to what...
View ArticleThe Kerala Verdict
by Binoy ViswamThe people of Kerala have given their verdict. It is emphatic, unequivocal and hence, historic. They made the LDF victorious by providing it with 91 seats in the 140-member Assembly. The...
View ArticleWork Starts on Second Tibet Rail Line
China has started work on its second rail line in Tibet, which will ultimately reach close to India-Bhutan border town of Yatung (Yadong) when completed in 2030. Its first Tibet rail line from Golmud...
View ArticleAfricans in Complexion-crazy India
We are appalled that leaders of India's ruling establishments and law enforcing agencies are not ashamed at what happened on January 31, 2016 night to a Tanzanian girl student of Bachelors of Business...
View ArticleNehru as an Internationalist
by Mohd Yousuf Dar and Jahangir Ahmad DarJawaharlal Nehru's political leadership both in Indian politics and international affairs was indeed unique in the true sense. As a votary of world peace,...
View ArticleIndira and the Legacy
From N.C.'s WritingsOne of the striking impressions of the AICC pilgrims returning from Bombay is about the Prime Minister' style in dealing with the critics of government policies.This question is not...
View ArticleGoebbelsian Doublespeak: B.R. Ambedkar and the RSS
by N. SukumarThe model State, Gujarat, has long been considered the social laboratory for Hindutva. Jan Bremem1 has analysed the well-entrenched nature of the Hindutva movement and its predecessors in...
View ArticleRight to Opium: Women, Holy Places and God
WOMEN'S WORLDby Pradeep Nair, Navneet Sharma and K.B.S. KrishnaKaryeshu dasi, karaneshu manthri; bhojeshu mata, shayaneshu rambha; Roopeshu lakshmi, kshamayeshu dharitri; shat dharmayukta, kuladharma...
View ArticleIn Bengal the Election was Violent; in Kerala Modi made a Mistake—a Bad One
IMPRESSIONSA disturbingly turbulent election season has come to an end. It was characterised by campaigns that often broke the letter of the law, to say nothing of its spirit. Violence was its...
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Assam: Crafty Coalition of Conflicts
by Joydeep BiswasThe BJP's emphatic victory in Assam is not only the tale of two tall leaders, fallen apart, contrary to what the media would have us believe. This electoral spectacle is scripted by a...
View ArticleThe Bengal Verdict: Challenges and Opportunities for Mamata Banerjee
by Purusottam BhattacharyaContrary to all speculations and a certain degree of wishful thinking on the part of her opponents, Mamata Banerjee and her Trinamul Congress have created an electoral record...
View ArticleOur Chabahar: Where fantasy ends and reality begins
Addressing Pakistani think-tankers and the strategic community in Islamabad on May 27, Iran's ambassador Mehdi Honerdoost disclosed that:Chabahar was first offered to Pakistan and China (before India...
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Gulbarg Judgment and Khadse Affair
EDITORIALAs we go to press, two issues have come to prominence.A special court today convicted 24 persons while acquitting 36 people in the Gulbarg Society massacre in Ahmedabad on February 28, 2002....
View ArticleRespect for Religious Sentiments not Synonymous with Appeasement
COMMUNICATIONWhen Darulum Deoband, the largest Muslim religious seminary in Asia, protested over the proposed visit of Salman Rushdie, the author of Satanic Verses in which he has used highly offensive...
View ArticleBundelkhand Drought
Linking Short-Term Urgent Relief With Longer-Term Sustainable Development and Protection of EnvironmentBundelkhand region is spread over an area of around 70,000 sq. km. in the States of Uttar Pradesh...
View ArticleMagisterial Study of Left Politics in Contemporary India
BOOK REVIEWThe Phoenix Moment: Challenges confronting the Indian Left by Praful Bidwai; Noida: Harper Collins Publishers India; 2015; 586 + xiii pages; Rs 599.00The Left in India, admittedly, is...
View ArticlePutting an End to the “Cold Political Bloodbath”
by Mustafa KhanIn her new book Gujarat Files: Anatomy of a Cover Up, Rana Ayub calls the genocide in Gujarat 2002 as the “cold political bloodbath”. Narendra Modi and the state machinery under him...
View ArticlePrepare, the Muslims are Coming'
While Donald Trump forges ahead to be the world's most powerful CEO and then to keep the world's Muslims from entering America, India's own Sangh Parivar“trains” its young saffron shirts to do one...
View ArticleIndia's Black Sunday
From N.C.'s WritingsThe following piece was published as ‘New Delhi Skyline' in this journal precisely fifty years ago. It is being reproduced on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the 1966...
View ArticleWorld Environment Day — June 5, “Go Wild For Life”
by Mayanglambam Ojit Kumar SinghOn June 5 every year since 1974, people from across the globe have been celebrating the World Environment Day (WED) by taking part in environmental action and becoming...
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