Tamil Nadu Drama Intensifies
POLITICAL NOTEBOOKThe political drama in Chennai is intensifying. Precisely two months after her mentor J. Jayalalithaa's death, V.K. Sasikala was unanimously elected leader of the ruling AIADMK's...
View ArticleThe Litmus Test
From N.C.'s WritingsThe menace of communalism looms large in this country today perhaps more than at any time before. With all the dire warnings being sounded repeatedly against the danger of...
View ArticleImplications of Latest Paris Conference on Palestine
by Gautam SenAn international conference on the Palestine issue has been held in Paris on January 15, 2017, at the initiative of France and chaired by the French Foreign Minister, Jean Marc Ayrault....
View ArticleNo to Instant Triple Talaaq
by Krishna JhaThe cultural meaning of gender, like the cultural meaning of class, is evolved by men and women, according to the spaces they occupy in the society at its roots, and this meaning in...
View ArticleHow and Why Vladimir Putin earned Global Popularity
by R.G. Gidadhubli and Rama SampathkumarThe well-known international media organisation Forbes ranked the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, as the world's most powerful man from 2013 to 2016—four...
View ArticleS.M. Krishna driven out of Congress, issues of Morality, Bankruptcy, Dilemmas...
IMPRESSIONSThere is a tragic inevitability about the doom of the Congress party. It's a Greek tragedy where the hero's powerful wish to achieve a goal is defeated by a flaw in his character complicated...
View ArticleNew Year in Mandalay
We—my husband, Bogyi, our Burmese friend, and I—stood on top of Mandalay Hill with the Irrawaddy River at a distance and watched the sun go down for the last time in 2016.According to legend, the...
View ArticleDefend the Constitution from the Sangh Parivar!
by S. Sudhakar ReddyWe have been celebrating January 26 as the Republic Day. The Constitution of India, which came into existence on January 26, 1950, abolished the Dominion Status of India, rejected...
View ArticleDemonetisation: Cause and Effect
A Two-part Article on Demonetisation-IIThe following is the concluding part of a two-part article on demonetisation written by the prominent Marxist-Maoist thinker, Kobad Ghandy, and sent to us for...
View ArticleCountdown for International Women's Day
MUSINGSCountdown for the International Women's Day has begun. Nah, no lessening of rapes and molestations and trafficking! It's just that the political speeches are more than laced with concern for...
View ArticleIgnore Prof Bipan Chandra's Forewarnings . . . At Our Own Peril
by Ajayakumar Kodoth“I wish to see India exist as a nation-state, a strong nation-state. But the rise of certain social and political forces with narrow policies is a threat to our national integrity....
View ArticleRacial Discrimination returns to UK
It's sheer racialism. Four British nationals of Pakistani origin committed a crime of sexual exploitation and were sentenced to imprison-ment. But the judge McClosky, in his own wisdom, said that after...
View ArticleDalit Uprising: from Rohith to Una
by Sanjay KumarThe Dalit movement has had a radical legacy of anti-caste resistance against Hindutva and brahminical hegemony in colonial and post-colonial India. Dalit resistance emerged during the...
View ArticleThe Immortal 21st February
February 21 is the International Mother Tongue Day as declared by the United Nations in recognition of the martyrs of the language movement who fell to the Pakistani police's bullets on that day in...
View ArticleMayawati set to Return in Uttar Pradesh
Six months prior to the 2017 Assembly elections the battle for power in the North Indian State of Uttar Pradesh was seen as between the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) led by Mayawati and the Bharatiya...
View ArticleBJP and UP Elections
EDITORIALIt is a foregone conclusion by close observers of the national political scene that in the ongoing elections for the Assembly of the country's most populous State—Uttar Pradesh—the ruling...
View ArticleWe Owe It. . . the Responsibility!!!}
by FAYEZAH IQBALWe live in strange times for sure,Newspapers demand our attention galore to endure..the bizarre blots of sins and subjugation,filling the voids of love-seeking, and peace-loving...
View ArticleWomen of Tagore Household and their Impact on the Poet in Early Twentieth...
BOOK REVIEWby Taisha AbrahamDaughters of Jorasanko by Aruna Chakravarti; Harper Collins; 2016; 344 pages; Price: Rs 399 (paperback).Daughters of Jorasanko by Aruna Chakravarti, set during the time of...
View ArticleProposal for a Daily Peace and Friendship Ceremony at Wagha
by Saeeda Diep and Sandeep PandeyThe Indian Government has decided to increase the seats at the stadium on the India-Pakistan Wagha-Attari border, where a joint beating-the-retreat ceremony is held...
View ArticleRecreating the Past, Benefiting the Masters
by O.P. JaiswalTo understand the present political dimension and development, as well as Narendra Modi's victory and the BJP's rise to power driven by the dynamics of an unprecedented development...
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