Is Delhi Ready to Take Tough Decisions?
by Anshuman GuptaDelhi is increasingly becoming a difficult place to live in with increasing levels of pollution there. It has been manifested with the recent blanket of thick haze at the onset of...
View ArticleNew Dawn in Pakistan
The Dawn is a fairly respected newspaper in the subcontinent. It was founded by Qaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah at Daryaganj in New Delhi to propagate his cause of Pakistan. When Pakistan was founded...
View ArticleSurgical Intolerance in a Democracy
by Saumitra MohanA slew of incidents in recent times have again adumbrated an increasing intolerance in the country, the intolerance of opposition to established wisdom, intolerance of contrarian views...
View ArticleRemembering Professor M.G.K. Menon
Professor M.G.K. Menon, 88, who passed away in the Capital on November 22, 2016, has been described by his grand-nephew Himadri Gupta, a senior lecturer of bio-materials, School of Engineering...
View ArticleMen and Mountains / Not Sorrow but Atonement
From N.C.'s WritingsThis article, which brings into focus the Third World stalwarts who attended the Seventh NAM Summit in New Delhi in March 1983, is being reproduced after almost 34 years to recall...
View ArticleCastro Will Always be Remembered for Keeping Alive the Hope of Socialist...
Fidel Castro, who died at the age of 90 on November 25, will always be remembered by history for keeping alive the hope for a socialist alternative for a very long time in very adverse circumstances....
View ArticleIn Memory of Fidel Castro
Fidel Castro, the great Cuban revolutionary and the icon of those who have over the last half-a-century struggled for national liberation, freedom from colonial and capitalistic exploitation, and the...
View ArticleTribute to Fidel Castro
TRIBUTEFidel Castro, the outstanding architect and leader of the Cuban revolution, passed away in Havana on November 25, 2016 after a brief illness. He was a remarkable personality who attracted global...
View ArticleSC's Order on National Anthem
CommentaryOn November 30 a Supreme Court Bench, in a striking, though interim, judgment, ruled that “all cinema halls in India shall play the national anthem before the feature film starts and all...
View ArticleDemonetisation: The Sordid Saga
EDITORIALToday is the twentythird day since the Narendra Modi Government carried out surgical strikes on the Indian people through demonetisation (by pulling high-denomination Rs 500 and Rs 1000...
View ArticleLeading by Example
Throughout history, it has been held that leaders should lead by example. In the military, the officer is expected to set an example of bravery and good soldiering. In society in general, the...
View ArticleRising Against Silence
BOOK REVIEWby Krishna JhaWords Matter: Writings Against Silence by K. Satchidanandan; Penguin Group India; 2016; pp. 260; Price: Rs 399.The knock is today at every door. The entire democratic fabric is...
View ArticleDilemma before Sonia Gandhi
I wish I could agree with Congress President Sonia Gandhi that compassion was the distinctive character of her mother-in-law, Mrs Indira Gandhi. A person with an iota of consideration for individual...
View ArticleRecession Exposes Demonetisation's Dark Side
MUSINGSTuesday afternoon I was in and around New Delhi's posh Khan Market. Usually this marketplace is more than crowded, with locals and foreigners not just shopping but stuffing themselves in the...
View ArticleGlobalisation and Social Movement: Critique of a Critique
by Babika KhawasIn an attempt to analyse the relationship between globalisation and social movement this brief communiqué attempts to comment critically on the cliché—that itself emerged as a...
View ArticleHuman Rights: Basic Issues
Human Rights Day is observed on December 10 every year commemorating the day, in 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. To mark the occasion we are...
View ArticleGrim Warning from Bhopal
From N.C.'s WritingsIt was a massacre of innocents by all counts. What happened at the Union Carbide plant at Bhopal in the early morning of December 3 was not just a tragedy but a heinous crime which...
View ArticleMyth of Women Empowerment in the Panchayats of Haryana
by Ranbir Singh and Kushal PalThe prescription of educational qualifications by the Government of Haryana in the 2016 elections for contesting to the Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs) has been...
View ArticleHow do Women Regain their Lost Glory?
WOMEN'S WORLDby Fayezah IqbalIn a world stupefied with the mantras of ‘feminism' and ‘women emancipation', no wonder if the women are infatuated with the thought of gaining respect and dignity only by...
View ArticleMaoist Killings in Malkangiri
by Suranjita RayFor the last few decades now, Malkangiri district1 of Western Odisha has remained a concern of the governments both at the Centre as well as in the State. It not only ranks last in the...
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