Where Do We Go From Here?
From N.C.'s WritingsIt is almost platitudinous to say that this nation has reached the crossroads. In a sense, one reaches the crossroads with every new situation. But more than in the ordinary sense,...
View ArticleBloodbath at Dhaka
The killing of dozens of people by terrorists at Dhaka is not an aberration, but the product of a committed mind that has been brainwashed by fanaticism. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is quite right...
View ArticleHistory and Legacy of International Working Men's Association After 150 Years
by Marcello MustoOn September 28, 1864, St. Martin's Hall, in the heart of London, was packed to overflowing with some two thousand workers. They had come to attend a meeting called by English trade...
View ArticleEnlightenment In Education
Rita Kanaujia, a widowed domestic help who lives in a slum in Chembur, Mumbai, desires to have her son admitted to the Junior Kindergarten class at Lokmanya Tilak High School in Tilak Nagar. Two of her...
View ArticleNeoliberalism: Its Reality Exposed
by S.G. VombatkereNeoliberalism is free-market fundamentalism. The central dogma of neoliberalism is economic growth, achieved by:• increasing competition through deregulation (watering-down of social,...
View ArticleWhen Shall The Twain Part?
by l.k. sharmaBritain is Britain and the Continent is Continent. Proven again by Britain's decision to leave the European Union. It is more than the Channel that divides the two plots of land.The flood...
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SC's Arunachal Verdict, Kashmir on the Boil
EDITORIALOnce again the judiciary has come to the rescue of the democratic forces.As was aptly mentioned in The Times of India today, the five-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court yesterday...
View ArticleChabahar: In the Grand Chessboard of India's Geo-Strategic Calculus
by Jajati K. Pattnaik and R. P. PradhanPrime Minister Narendra Modi's recent visit to Tehran marks a new geopolitical beginning in the Persian Gulf region putting Chabahar in the grand chess board of...
View ArticleOur Forgotten Heroes
by Debatra Kumar DeyBhagat Singh earned immortality in our national annals primarily because he realised that he did not know enough and never got tired of studying more himself plus learning more from...
View ArticleReverse our Present Course in Foreign Policy
by Dibalok SenThe forthcoming BRICS summit in Goa and the bilateral Indo-Russian high-level meeting in New Delhi will provide a major opportunity to India to balance its foreign policy course and...
View ArticleLest We Forget
Several important figures from different walks of life have departed from our midst in the recent past. While remembering them we offer our sincere homage to their abiding memory.One of Pakistan's...
View ArticleEnvisioning Health Mobility in India
by Pradeep NairThis article attempts to envision the vivifi-cation of the health sector with the substructure of technological, digital and mobile revolution in the country. The health care sector is...
View ArticleA World Gripped by the Cancer of Terror
by Ram PuniyaniThe current times are very disturbing as so many innocent lives are being lost and social resources being destroyed due to the dastardly phenomenon of terror. To cap it all, this...
View ArticleThere's more to Turkey's failed coup than meets the eye
Russian President Vladimir Putin did on Sunday (July 17) what no major Western leader from the NATO member-countries cared to do when he telephoned his Turkish counterpart, Recep Erdogan, to convey his...
View ArticleTurkey: A Nation in Turmoil
by Purusottam BhattacharyaTurkey has been a nation in turmoil. It is beset with one crisis after another ever since the beginning of the civil war in Syria—with which it shares a border—in March 2011....
View ArticleBijbehara: A Challenge to Nation's Conscience
From N.C.'s WritingsAutumn has set in—the chinar in its gorgeous robe. But it is an autumn of bitter sorrow for the hapless people of Kashmir. The Valley which was known as the paradise on earth has...
View ArticleBurhan Killing Signals Shift in Counterterrorism Strategy
by Iftikhar GilaniEven though the Army has downplayed its prized killing of Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani, questions arise as to whether it signals a departure from the age-old...
View ArticleCitizens' Statement on Kashmir
We write this in anguish at another alarming spiral of violence in Kashmir, when a discredited old playbook has yet again been deployed to wreak havoc with civilian life.Kashmir's escalating violence...
View ArticleViolence and Anger in Kashmir
MUSINGSWar-drumming in Tanzania. War-like situation in the Kashmir Valley. Troops together with security forces not taking on an enemy country but unleashing terror on agitators and mourners...
View Article‘Form a United Front to Resist BJP, Give Up Rigid Anti-Congressism' - Letter...
DOCUMENTLetter to CPI-M Leadership From Irfan Habib and Sayera HabibThe following is the text of the letter written by eminent historian Professor Irfan Habib and his wife Sayera Habib to the CPI-M...
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