What is the Permanent Solution of Kashmir?
by p.c. jainKashmir has been a thorn in the flesh of India since 1947. Just after independence soldiers in the garb of infiltrators attacked Kashmir in order to bring pressure for the accession of...
View ArticleUnderstanding Kashmir Imbroglio 2016
by Ram PuniyaniIn the din of hysteria created around the military action on the LoC, which was in response to the killing of 18 Indian Army jawans in Uri, the issue of anguish of the people of Kashmir...
View ArticleVendors heard the War Drums On LoC
The guns on the Line of Control have not yet fallen silent, but arms vendors are coming to Delhi. The Reuters reports that US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter will pay a quick visit before moving on to...
View ArticlePoems of Nusrat Bazaz
July 2016This JulyThe moon peeps into my roomAnd wondersWhy I toss and turn In my soft bedThis JulyThe early sun cannot fathomWhy, paper in handMy morning tea lies UntouchedThis JulyThe flowers in my...
View ArticleNews Media in a Frenzy over Nationalism
by Mohd. Afsar“Today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups... So I ask, in my...
View ArticleWhen Media peddles Jingoism as Truth
by Garga ChatterjeeSeptember 2016 is witness to an apocalyptic dress-rehearsal where the mainstream media is egging on two nuclear-armed governments for “action” and “reaction”. Humans all over,...
View ArticleMedia's Disconnect with Dalits
MEDIAby Santosh Kumar BiswalThe recent attack of cow vigilantes on Dalits in Gujarat's Una and East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh has again shaken the entire nation and the amount of media...
View ArticleRelevance of Surgical Strikes
I was against surgical strikes because I thought it would escalate things and probably go to a point of no return. But now that the strikes have been made I back the government. I am reminded of George...
View ArticleWe want Not War but Solution to the Kashmir Problem
After the Uri attack at atmosphere of jingoism is being built which can lead the country to war. While war may be necessary for the rulers, no war is in the interest of common citizens. An...
View ArticleBeyond Constricted Nationalism
by suranjita rayThe dexterity to create a buzz about nationa-lism is essentially meant to consolidate what the ruling political class consents. The Hindutva ideologues campaign for a Hindu Rashtra as...
View ArticleHope flickers in the midst of Darkness
EDITORIALThe RSS-controlled Narendra Modi administration in New Delhi is taking major strides in implementing the issues which were characterised as ‘contentious' and kept in abeyance during the A.B....
View ArticleNeed to Rethink Policies and Practices in the North-East
BOOK REVIEWby M.M. AnsariState, Policy and Conflicts in Northeast India by K.S. Subramanian; Routledge India; 2016; pages: 213; price: Rs 795.The North-Eastern States of India widely differ in terms of...
View ArticleSong for Joan Baez
Is home lost forever, then, Lost for evermore?Every creek I crossed ahead Was cooler than before.The things that I set out to do I know not what they are;Dear people of my little town, I've strayed,...
View ArticleDylanesque
by Saikat Ghosh‘Dylanesque' is not a word in the OED though anyone who is familiar with the enormous cultural upsurge of the global sixties will know exactly what it means. It pertains to the American...
View ArticleModi distances from Gandhiji — and Parrikar
A little while earlier in the evening, a journalist from a well-known Delhi paper phoned me up for a ‘byte' on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's enigmatic remark on Tuesday (October 18) at a rally of the...
View ArticleBhupesh: Some Reminiscences
From N.C.'s WritingsCPI stalwart and legendary Communist parliamentarian Bhupesh Gupta, the longest serving Member in the Rajya Sabha, would have turned 102 on October 20 this year. We remember him now...
View ArticleThe Political Ontology of Public Policy
by Murzban JalOntology cannot lay hold of a fart.—Jacques Derrida, GlasSearching for the Public SpaceIt was Surendra Barlingay, one of the charismatic figures of the philosophical movement in...
View ArticleSocialism for Our Times
COMMUNICATIONIn the perception of most people socialism is identified with a system based on economic equality and a path of planned economic development to ensure this equality.This basic principle of...
View ArticleIdentity of the Dead
Sunlight slanting through the branches fell on a dead body lying beneath the roadside tree; unshaven face, sunken eye sockets, tattered clothes covering a skeleton of hunger, neglect, deprivation.The...
View ArticleAfghanistan: Caught in a Vicious Grip
In early October, an international donors' conference hosted by the European Union (EU) in Brussels declared a US $ 15. 2 billion aid package for Afghanistan to run till 2020, almost at par with the...
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