Arundhati Ghosh
TRIBUTEby Sukharanjan Sen GuptaArundhati Ghosh of the Indian Foreign Service (1963 batch), who recently passed away in New Delhi, came into prominence in 1971, during the Bangladesh liberation war. On...
View ArticleMahasweta Devi : Quintessential Humanist
TRIBUTEby Vijay KumarWriting is a career of death in a sense; it signifies the absence of the author, and great writing is certainly a gateway to immortality. This is the single greatest and lasting...
View ArticleCow Vigilantism as Terror
The following is a write-up prepared by the New Socialist Initiative on Cow Vigilantism. It has been sent by Subhash Gatade who is actively involved in the NSI.Cow vigilantism, which has received...
View ArticleIndia's Quest for Military Power: The LCA Milestone and Beyond
by Bhartendu Kumar SinghGreat powers have great strengths! Yet, with almost 70 per cent import of its total weapons' requirement, India is the world's largest arms importer since the last few years....
View ArticlePolitics of Coalition Formation in the Backdrop of Indian Democracy and...
BOOK REVIEWby Bharti ChhibberDivided We Govern: Coalition Politics in Modern India by Sanjay Ruparelia; New Delhi: Oxford University Press; 2015; pp. 480; Rs 995.Several political parties cooperate in...
View ArticleSangh Reprisal Against Dalit in Modi Raj
by Arun SrivastavaThe July 11 incident of brutally thrashing Dalits in Una in Gujarat has been different from the earlier atrocities perpetrated against them. This was for the first time the cow...
View ArticleVivekananda against Hindutvavadi Obscurantism
by Jayanta Kumar GhosalThe Hindu fundamentalist forces in India are now very active to destroy the secular and democratic fabrics of our country as enshrined in the Constitution. As a part of their...
View ArticleIt is Rasgotra's folly, not Pandit Nehru's
These are of course extraordinary times in our country and the former Foreign Secretary M.K. Rasgotra might have for some incomprehensible reason felt the urge to be in sync with the zeitgeist, when he...
View ArticlePortraying Kashmir: Local Media Vs National Media
MEDIAby Mohd. AfsarSince the past few years, a section of the national media is misrepresenting the image of Kashmir in India either by exaggerating the events or by spinning the facts. It seems to be...
View ArticleThe Curfewed Valley
Bulbuls are numb And wonder where humans have fled Pigeons haunt the shrines To search the hands that fed them Dogs with long faces Loll about on empty streetsThe gardens too are distraught And flowers...
View Article‘Recognise Kashmir as a Political Problem, Reach out to Kashmiris, Don't...
INTERVIEWThe following is the interview of Shujaat Bukhari, Editor-in-Chief of Rising Kashmir, Buland Kashmir (Urdu daily) and Sangarmal (Kashmiri daily) based in Srinagar, on the current situation in...
View ArticleWages of Deceit and Brute Force
MUSINGSI do realise that for the last four weeks I have been focusing on the Kashmir Valley—a region I have been covering and reporting from for over twentyfive years, a region and its people I bond...
View ArticleWhich Kashmir is Integral Part of India: The People or the Land?
The Kashmir situation is getting from bad to worse. The State has been on the boil since July 8, the day the Indian security forces took credit for exterminating a dreaded terrorist—the 22-year-old...
View ArticleSegregation in Democracy
Yet another Dalit family was hacked to death because it was suspected to have eaten beef. The laboratory tests of the “beef” showed that it was some other cattle. Some time ago, the Kerala House in...
View ArticleConflict of Religions
Religion has emerged as a major source of conflict all across the globe. A perceptive writer points out that ideological strife has now given place to the “clash of civilisations” and predicts that in...
View ArticleTo Overcome Societal Inequalities and Deep-seated Prejudices: Need for...
by M.Hamid AnsariThe following is the text of Vice-President M. Hamid Ansari's Valedictary Address at the Centenary Celebrations of Mysuru University (July 22, 2016).One hundred years is an important...
View ArticleThe Cow Makes the Mare Go
Here is how the holy cow seems to have hooved the Sangh Parivar for now: following the Prime Minister's chest-thumpingly politic outburst against those that use the cow to beat the Dalit (Uttar Pradesh...
View ArticleGrim Scenario on Eve of a Milestone
EditorialAs we approach yet another Independence Day, it has a special significance for all of us. For, next Monday we shall observe our seventieth Independence Day.Ever since the BJP, headed by PM...
View ArticleGST: Revenue Neutral Rate and Macro Implications
The GST is expected to be implemented from April 1, 2017. While it has been hailed as the single biggest tax reform since independence, many worries have been expressed about it in the media. The FMs...
View ArticleChurchill's Hatred for India?
COMMUNICATIONVeteran journalist, author and commentator Kuldip Nayar was lucid and specific in his column captioned, “A Page from ‘Quit India' Movement”. [Mainstream, Vol. LIV, No. 33, August 6, 2016]...
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