Understanding Complex Dimensions of Manipur
BOOK REVIEWMother, Where's My Country? Looking for Light in the Darkness of Manipur by Anubha Bhosle; 2016; New Delhi: Speaking Tiger; pp. 250; Price: Rs 499.Of late two very consequential developments...
View ArticleThe Anti-AFSPA Movement in Manipur: Common Cause, Diverse Strategies
by Deepti Priya MehrotraThe Manipuri people's struggle against the AFSPA holds that this counter-insurgency law has created more unrest in the State than it has curbed. The anti-AFSPA movement is...
View ArticleAam Aadmi turns into Harm Aadmi, then to Damn Aadmi. Yet another chance of...
IMPRESSIONSWhen Anna Hazare disowned Arvind Kejriwal, it was clear that all was not well with the Aam Aadmi Party experiment. When Kejriwal summarily dismissed his original team-mates, Prashant Bhushan...
View ArticleContours of the Naga Society: Some Important Missing Flakes Unfurled
While dealing about the Naga problem, I wrote in a previous article that one of the most important political parties of the Nagas, the NSCN (IM), is a fascist party by nature. I failed in my efforts as...
View ArticleBrazil's Political and Economic Crisis threatens the Legitimacy of the...
by Mark WeisbrotThe following article appeared before Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff's final impeachment and removal from power. This write-up gives a fairly detailed analysis of the crisis in...
View ArticleMahasweta Devi
To you the universeWas a constellation of starsTowards which you took a leap,Only some of the starsWere shrouded in a darkness, so deep.You went close, you felt deeply,And in your manner so...
View ArticleRemembering Mahasweta Devi
TRIBUTEby Nirupam HazraI met Mahasweta Devi when I was a student at Visva Bharati. It was my first interaction with her. In an informal gathering at a tribal village near Santiniketan, she was talking...
View ArticleMahasweta's Last Wish Remained Unfulfilled
TRIBUTEby Chandrasekhar BhattacharjeeIt was a scorching summer noon of mid-April, 2010. Mahasweta Devi landed at Birsa Munda Airport, Ranchi, from Delhi after receiving the Manavata Bikash Award,...
View ArticleId in Kashmir, Problem of Survival in Mewat
MUSINGSPerhaps, for the first time in the recent history of Kashmir, curfew was imposed in the Kashmir Valley on Id. To compound the situation, connectivity snapped, if it was not hugely disrupted. The...
View ArticleShare Water, but also Share Responsibility for Protecting River
COMMUNICATIONWhether in the context of the Cauvery river or the Narmada river or other rivers, so much time and effort has been spent on the sharing of the river waters. Isn't it time now to devote...
View ArticleScene of Linguistic Chauvinism
The horrors of partition came to my mind when I saw television beaming pictures of rioting and killing in Bengaluru. It was the same way I felt when partition took place and we, the people living in...
View ArticleKashmir and Conscience
From N.C.'s WritingsIn the brochures and posters of Indian tourism, Kashmir still figures with its enchanting attractions. In reality, however, the picturesque Valley of Kashmir is becoming out of...
View ArticleIntifada in Kashmir
by Mustafa KhanThe Kashmir problem cannot be addressed unless you address Pakistan, says Dr Madhav Godbole.1 The Kashmir problem is a quandary but new grounds seem to be broken. Sitaram Yechury, who...
View ArticleStandstill In The Valley: Both Separatists and the Centre have a Lot to...
The way to you-know-where, they say, is paved with good intentions. After the results of the last Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir were in hand, it seemed a logical assumption to the late Mufti...
View ArticleA Flashpoint in South Asia?
by L.K. SharmaPakistan and India are engaged in a war of words at the highest level. Unusually provo-cative statements have been made by the two Prime Ministers. The area of contest and conflict has...
View ArticleMurder of Democracy in Arunachal Pradesh
by V. BijukumarPolitics in Arunachal Pradesh assumed a new turn in the context of the mass migration of Congress MLAs, including its Chief Minister Prema Khandu, to the People's Party of Arunachal...
View ArticleAfter Fiftyone Years
EDITORIALFiftyone years ago, in September 1965, Pakistan had gone to war with India with the purpose of annexing the Kashmir Valley by force. This happened barely sixteen months after the demise of our...
View ArticleFarmers made Homeless and Landless by River Erosion still Waiting for Relief...
COMMUNICATIONImagine a farmer family leading a secure life based on its fertile fields suddenly becoming not just landless but also homeless in the span of a few hours. This has been the tragic and...
View ArticleWhy Unrest Never Dies In Kashmir?
by Fayezah IqbalIn the once serene and bewitchingly beautiful Kashmir Valley, unrest and wild turbulence has spelt unimaginable horror in the lives of the people. A colossal deal of irreversible damage...
View ArticlePhilogagging, Hermeneutics and International Politics
by Ashfaq Maqsood AliImmanuel Kant, the eighteenth century philosopher and an idealist, while arguing that only pure reason can lead to truth, excluded almost everything derivable from sensation and...
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