Aping Israel, Build-up in Ayodhya
MUSINGSWhy did this government indulge in all possible publicity stunts on Gandhi Jayanti Day when it was all set to follow the Israeli way to strike? Doublespeak at the highest level! The top brass of...
View ArticleIt's Mandir again
It is Mandir again. The controversy over it comes to life whenever there are elections. The Babri Masjid was demolished on December 6, 1992. No doubt, the blame for the destruction is on the extremist...
View ArticlePIPFPD's Latest Call
The following is the press statement issued by the India Chapter of the PIPFPD after the Forum's National Committee meeting in Jammu on October 22.The Pakistan-India Peoples' Forum for Peace and...
View ArticleCompetitive Communalism
POLITICAL NOTEBOOKSeveral striking developments of the last few days have hogged the headlines.These include the removal of Cyrus Mistry from the chairmanship of the Tata Group and the ongoing war in...
View ArticleMohan Kumaramangalam — Cameos
From N.C.'s WritingsNovember 1 this year marked the birth centenary of Mohan Kumaramangalam. On this occasion we pay our homage to him by reproducing the following piece that N.C. wrote under the...
View ArticleNikhil Chakravartty's 103rd birth anniversary - November 3, 2016: Tributes...
November 3, 2016 marked Nikhil Chakravartty's 103rd birth anniversary. On this occasion we reproduce three pieces on N.C. written by three personalities, former President K.R. Narayanan and eminent...
View ArticleBelittling Importance of Gandhiji and his Inspiring Ideals and Principles
COMMUNICATIONGandhi Jayanti, that is, the birth anniversary of the Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi, the idol of millions of Indians, under whose supreme leadership the country became free and...
View ArticleWhy the Left must ally with the Congress
by V.G. GeorgeProf Irfan Habib‘s letter to the CPI-M Polit-Bureau on June 26 seeking a positive approach to the Congress in the context of the BJP‘s emergence [that appeared in Mainstream (July 23,...
View ArticleKashmir Unrest 2016: A Story of Agony and Animosity
by Showkat AhmadTo understand the Kashmir issue one needs to realise and accept its complexity. Depending on the side from where you view it, the conflict in Kashmir can be seen as a fight for...
View ArticleBRICS-BIMSTEC Outreach may pave the way for Regional Integration, Trade
by Ashok B. SharmaThis article was written before the BRICS-BIMSTEC Outreach programme but is still relevant.Leaders of the group of emerging economies, BRICS, are meeting in Goa and India being the...
View ArticleWake up, India! BIMSTEC is a Reverie
This piece was written some days ago. It is being belatedly published as its contents retain their validity.Dhaka is throbbing with excitement as the day draws close for Chinese President Xi Jinping's...
View ArticleA Literary Genius talks of his Mentor
DIVERSITIESThis piece has been written in the backdrop of Prem Chand's 80th death anniversary on October 8, 2016.The late Prof Raghupati Sahai 'Firaq' Gorakhpuri, one of the greatest Urdu poets of the...
View ArticleCurse of Triple talaaq
The Radiance is a weekly journal of the Jamaat-e-Islami, a fundamentalist organisation. It carries on its front page an article which says: First, you give us the account. Apparently, it means the...
View ArticleFascism Unmasks Itself
POLITICAL NOTEBOOKThe mysterious escape of eight undertrial SIMI activists from the high-security Bhopal Central Jail and their subsequent and no less mysterious ‘encounter-deaths' have raised a number...
View ArticleTwo Poems
Freedom at Stake(for Prof Nandini Sundar)Now it is the creed to rape womenAnd kill the villagers,Make room for the new IndiaSteeped in himsa.Gouge hillsides for the mining,Clear pathways for the...
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Is Partition and Pakistan a Hindu Gift to Jinnah?
COMMUNICATIONKuldip Nayar's column captioned, ‘The Partition' (Mainstream, August 27, 2016), merits our observation. Our leaders, who donned the patriotic kurta, were power hungry. Tired of long...
View ArticlePolitics as a Confidence Trick
The great English romantic poet of old, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, once described the power of imaginative poetry in terms of its ability to cause a “suspension of disbelief” for the moment in favour of...
View ArticleGoa BRICS Summit — a New Milestone
With the Eighth BRICS Summit over at Goa, it is time for stock-taking of the developments at the meet. BRICS is the youngest and fastest growing international grouping that is designed to make the...
View ArticleOn Religion Today
Over 90 per cent of the world population is affiliated to some religion or the other and for millions of people life would be unthinkable without the guidance of their religion. Religion provides a...
View ArticleIndira Gandhi — Democrat or Dictator?
by P.C. JAINNovember 19 marks Indira Gandhi's ninetyninth birth anniversary.Indira Gandhi has been much maligned and misunderstood for imposition of the Emergency and the excesses committed during this...
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