The Phenomenology of Terrorism
by Mustafa KhanSeptember 2016 will complete a full decade of the bomb blasts of 2006 in Malegaon. It was this that made Hindutva terrorism a new coinage of ignominy with which the Hindutva Right never...
View ArticleWhy Vegetarianism Is Anti-national
“Human beings are not pure vegetarians like sheep, nor are they pure meatarians like tigers. They need to eat both.”—A farmer of my village, Papaiahpet, Warangal district, TelanganaWhen I said in some...
View ArticleIrom Sharmila ends her Historic Hunger Strike for Human Security in Manipur
by Kadayam SubramanianThe young woman Irom Sharmila (30) went on an indefinite hunger strike on November 2, 2000 in protest against the killing of innocents by the paramilitary Assam Rifles (AR) under...
View ArticleAzaadi — Freedom from the Empire
Remembrance of Things PastAugust 15 reinvokes reflections of India's freedom struggle and its aftermath which are customarily carried by newspapers and journals. Apart from the mention of independence...
View ArticleRSS and Its Double-Speak
by Binoy ViswamThe forces of the Sangh Parivar are well trained in the art of ‘bahu bhashan' (duplicity in utterances). On the same subject they would speak often in different ways, sometimes...
View ArticleImplications of Raising Balochistan and Gilgit issues by PM
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has raised the issue of Balochistan, Gilgit-Baltistan and Pakistani occupied Kashmir in his Independence Day speech on August 15, 2016 in response to Pakistan dedicating...
View ArticleIndia's Modi mounts the Balochi Tiger
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is sadly mistaken if he thinks that he gave a ‘tit-for-tat' for Pakistan's interference in Kashmir affairs by raising human rights violations in Balochistan in his...
View ArticleWhither Kashmir?
POLITICAL NOTEBOOKNew Delhi is finding Kashmir more ungovernable by the day. A mindless, thoughtless, directionless government is talking about Kashmir in several voices. One day, Finance Minister and...
View ArticleOn the Lethality of Pellet Guns
I recently wrote the following letter to newspapers:“It is deceitful to describe pellet guns as ‘non-lethal'. While they may not kill, they have maimed people permanently, specially by causing loss of...
View ArticleDalits Emancipation Possible Only when they Leave Humiliating Vocations
A Dalit Asmita Yatra was taken out in Gujarat between July 31 and August 15, 2016 by the Una Dalit Atyachar Ladat Samiti from Ahmedabad to Una, where the obnoxious incident took place on July 8 when...
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Assam Elections: Looking at the Complexities
by Nazimuddin SiddiqueIn the recently concluded Assembly elections of Assam, the heterogeneous society of the North-Eastern State has accorded majority mandate to the Bharatiya Janata Party (henceforth...
View ArticleDalit Uprising and After: Why Hindutva Would Not Be The Same Again
When I was born I was not a childI was a dream, a dream of revoltthat my mother, oppressed for thousands of years, dreamt.Still it is untouched in my eyesCovered with wrinkles of thousand years, her...
View ArticleIndia Must Acknowledge it has committed Perfidies of Mistrust and Betrayal...
There is a new generation of Kashmiri Muslims in the Valley who have little or no personal acquaintance with Pandits. To most of them, stories of syncretic living in schools, colleges, work-places,...
View ArticleKalahandi: Reliving the Callous State
by Suranjita RayOn August 15, 2016 we celebrated our 70th Independence Day. The least one does is to recollect the great sacrifices of our freedom fighters for the country and for us to see this day....
View ArticleGujarat Dalits: Torchbearers of a New Horizon
There cannot be consistency or uniformity in madness. Instances are aplenty. A British newspaper on August 2, 2016 carried a news item under the caption, “Dalit sarpanch pays Rs 10 lakh to build in her...
View ArticleSaga of Forest Dwelling Tribes: Sandwiched Between the Indian Forest Act and...
by Suparna Sanyal MukherjeeThe Indian Forest and its natural phenomenon attracted people from time immemorial. The forest was a treasure, pleasure and its overwhelming beauty touched the inner sense of...
View ArticleIndia, US set to become Logistical Allies
This week marks a historic milestone in independent India's diplomatic history. The Logistics Exchange Memorandum of Agreement (LEMOA) is to be signed in Washington on August 30.The LEMOA provides for...
View ArticleIt is a Real Shame
It is a shame that India has not won any gold medal in the Olympics. There were great hopes from the largest ever Indian contingent but when it came to the performance, it fell well short of...
View ArticleWho said India cut a Sorry Figure at the Olympics? No Other Country had VIPs...
IMPRESSIONSIt is true that India did better in the last Olympics than in this one; just 83 athletes won six medals in London while 117 won two in Rio. But that does not mean that our great country cut...
View ArticleMother India Beckons Us All
From N.C.'s WritingsAfter forty years of the foundation of our independent republic, the Frankenstein has appeared again—the monster that is out to destroy democracy and plunge this nation into civil...
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