Triple talaaq is neither constitutional nor a Quranic form of divorce
by Irfan EngineerThe observations of the Allahbad High Court on December 8 stating that the Muslim personal law on triple talaaq didn't give unbridled authority to a Muslim male to unilaterally divorce...
View ArticleEnd of an Iconic Revolutionary Phase in Post-WW II
TRIBUTEby Vijay KumarThe death of Fidel Castro has marked the end of an iconic revolutionary phase of the post-Second World War era. Fidel Castro was a hero of generations of students of history and...
View ArticleRussian Revolution: A Century of Historic Lessons
The observance of a century of the Russian Revolution has begun on November 7 this year. This article is being published in that connection.No other revolution has so deeply impacted the world as the...
View ArticleThe Idea of Interlinking Rivers: Cupidity or stupidity?
The ideaA project to interlink Indian rivers was formally declared in 2002. It was envisaged as a grand scheme to link 37 major Indian rivers by 30 link canals (14 Himalayan and 16 peninsular) with a...
View ArticleOpen Letter to Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh - With RSS Ruling India, Do...
Shri Rajnath Singhji,Namaskar. It was heartening to note that as the Home Minister of a democratic-secular India you warned Pakistan, an Islamic state, not to be misled by the illusion that the latter...
View ArticleIs Pakistan dividing India?
Home Minister Rajnath Singh has said that Pakistan is again trying to divide India on the basis of religion. He conveniently forgets history. Pakistan was a consequence, not the cause. The society was...
View ArticleFresh Onslaught on People, Ved Bhasin on J&K
MUSINGSI have just switched off the television. Couldn't view any further, depressing and hitting news—reports of the hapless getting brutally lathi-charged when they were standing in long queues to...
View ArticleCashless Time Will Turn
Make us landlessMake us homelessMake us forestlessMake us cashlessMake us foodlessMake us waterlessMake us airlessBut you cannot make us faithlessWhen the day of reckoning comesWe shall make you...
View ArticleIndia's New Money Policy Hurts Poor the Most
by Joseph D'souzaOn the day the US elected Donald Trump as its President, Prime Minister Modi of India announced a sudden midnight decision to demonetise 86 per cent of India's cash economy. His...
View ArticleDemonetisation: Assault on the People
by Ram PuniyaniThe month-old gamble of Narendra Modi (November 8, 2016) has put the whole country in an unprecedented chaos. The demonetisation of 86.4 per cent of the circulating currency in the form...
View ArticleDemonetisation: Decoding the Moves of a ‘pracharak' Prime Minister
by Diptendra RaychaudhuriWinter has set in. A winter at the time of demonetisation is expected to be severe, parti-cularly when the battle-lines have already been drawn and demarcated clearly.Now, if...
View ArticleNote ban is not demonetisation. And Modi was aware of the demon it unleashed
by Aurobindo GhoseOn November 8, 2016 at 8 pm, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in an apparently live televised address to a shocked and surprised nation, announced that currency notes of Rs 500 and Rs...
View ArticleModern Money Theory and the Demonetisation Catastrophe in India
by Anandi SharanFor the life of me I cannot understand the reasoning behind demonetisation. I think the hidden underlying motivation is that the only people India's politicians are willing to attack...
View ArticleDemonetisation can only go so far. To go further, politics that backs black...
IMPRESSIONSNot enough weeks have passed for us to say that the currency earthquake is over. Aftershocks are more severe than expected, with people waiting in day-long queues, and often failing to...
View ArticleThat's My Place, Sir
That's my place, Sir.[Newly fashioned. I'm overwhelmed!] ThereIn the long, weary queuesWaiting patientlyOn aching, creaking feetMoving inch by painful inchFor a blushing, pink piece of paper[that can't...
View ArticleDemonetisation: A Silent but Monster Killer - Modi Must Own Up Killing Over A...
by K. NarayanaOver a month has gone by after the fateful decision to demonetise the high-value currencies by the Modi Government. The initial stated purposes in a bang focused on sucking out 86 per...
View ArticleCurbing the Black Economy: Demonetisation Not the Way
Tackling the black economy is laudable. The PM has announced demonetisation of the high denomination currency notes to do that. But most analysts are of the opinion this is not the way to even dent...
View ArticleRome was Not Built in a Day. Nor the Hindu Rashtra . . .
by Ajayakumar KodothEven while judging the BJP government as a pro-Fascist one, the CPI believes that it cannot be called Fascist yet. We resort to this label not merely because of hostility towards...
View ArticleLetter to PM by CPI-M General Secretary
The following is the text of a letter addressed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi by CPI-M General Secretary and MP Sitaram Yechury on December 12, 2016 regarding the finalisation of the ‘Major Defense...
View ArticleThe Trump Call: Pakistan gets a jumpstart in dealing with the coming US...
If India was hoping to corner Pakistan on the issue of cross-border terrorism at the Heart of Asia conference on December 3-4 in Amritsar, that has been overtaken by the telephone conversation between...
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