Avoid Unilinear Comprehension of Events
The winter session of Parliament has opened on November 22 with the apprehension that it could meet the fate of its monsoon session when practically no business was transacted in both the Houses on...
View ArticleMetastasis of Maoist Networks in Urban India
“Work in the rural base areas does not mean abandoning our work in the cities and in the other vast rural areas which are still under the enemy's rule; on the contrary, without the work in the cities...
View ArticleChina's Congress and India's Congress: Not All Princelings are the Same
IMPRESSIONSFirst, India's Congress party met, then China's party Congress met. Don't see it as just a nice coincidence allowing a nice play on words. The twin events demonstrated yet again how we go in...
View ArticleHow to Solve the Gujarat and Kashmir Imbroglios: India as a Deliberative...
by TAMANNA KHOSLAIn India, the States of Gujarat and Kashmir have seen a lot of conflict in the past. Kashmir though even now is not free from conflicts of many kinds. Women, men and children in these...
View ArticleEnd of an Era in Journalism
TRIBUTEby HIRANMAY KARLEKARWith the recent passing of Prithvis Chakra-varti—Prithvisda to this writer and Prithvis or Chakravarti to his friends and colleagues—the country has lost one of the last tall...
View ArticleMalala - Jethmalani
I must confess I have never understood why Ram Jethmalani off and on aligns himself with the Bharatiya Janata Party. I can only think that he does so from a visceral animus against the Congress, more...
View ArticleDecember 10 (Human Rights Day) will be Observed as SC/ST Struggle Day
by C.R. BAKSHIRecently, two mass organisations, namely, the ‘National Joint Campaign Committee for Dalit Rights' and ‘All India Adivasi Mahasabha' held a joint conference at Nagpur and decided to...
View ArticlePilgrimage to Ahmedabad
Just recently I took yet another trip to Ahmedabad, but this time I had a special purpose. It was to introduce my six-year-old daughter, Sachi, to two living treasures. These living symbols of our...
View ArticleFactions and Big Money
FROM N.C.'S WRITINGSAt the time of writing these lines, there is excitement in the Capital about the imminence of reshuffle of the Union Cabinet. This is of course a source of hypertension for many of...
View ArticleAfghanistan: Karzai Visit - Looming Danger
In the months that he survived the exit of the Russian forces from his country, Afghanistan's former slain President Najibullah would visit New Delhi to seek support and succour from India that was...
View ArticleEighteenth Party Congress: New Land Reforms in China?
by NAMRATA HASIJAThe 18th Party Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) commenced on November 8, 2012 amidst speculations from every corner of the globe about the closed-door meetings. Hu...
View ArticleShaping China's India Policy
by SRIKANTH KONDAPALLIWhile no specific policy vis-a-vis India had been mentioned in the just concluded 18th Communist Party Congress at Beijing, it appears that for the next five years certain broad...
View Article‘Pro-Life' also Means a Mother's Right to Life
The death of Savita Halappanvar, an Indian dentist in Ireland, due to refusal of abortion by the doctors in Dublin has outraged every human being who loves life. Irish laws prohibit abortion though a...
View ArticleThe Vulnerable Side of Suu Kyi
by PETER RONALD DESOUZAThe Nehru Memorial Lecture, given by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi on November 14, 2012 in New Delhi, was a master class performance. It was measured. It was poetic. It was political. It...
View ArticleSuu Kyi's discovery of India
Aung San Suu Kyi's visit turned out to be profoundly meaningful. With an old world charm, she simply held up the mirror to show us what we were and what we have become as a nation. The image staring...
View ArticleMenace of Corruption in India — the Way Out
CAG Vinod Rai's pained expression on the brazenness of government decisions—obviously alluding to the way decisions have been taken resulting in corrupt deals in the matter of telecom, coal...
View ArticlePitiable Plight of Women
Even as Malala Yousafzai, the 14-year-old activist who advocated girls' education, recovers from the bullet shots by the Taliban at Swat in Pakistan, there is no let up in atrocities against women in...
View ArticleAttack on Malala — Islamic or Un-Islamic?
by ASGHAR ALI ENGINEERThe recent attack on Malala Yusafzai, a 14-year-old tribal girl from the Pakhtunkhwah province of Pakistan, shocked not only Pakistan but the whole world. There was near unanimity...
View ArticlePeople's Movements say No to Cash Transfer, Yes to PDS
by MOHAMMAD ALIA day after the Union Government rolled out cash transfer for subsidies and entitlements, Jan Sansad, a coalition of more than 60 people's movements, rejected it for being...
View ArticleWhither Congress?
The logjam over how to discuss in Parliament the issue of the government's introduction of FDI in retail has finally been broken today. The Manmohan Singh dispensation, having succeeded in bringing the...
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