Does Only One Person in India Have the Right to ‘Mann ki Baat'?
by Om ThanviIn response to the rape threats issued on a public forum against Gurmehar Kaur, the government and its Ministers ought to have clearly come out in support of the young student. They did...
View ArticlePIPFPD expresses Solidarity with Gurmehar Kaur
The following is the press statement issued by the Pakistan-India Peoples' Forum for Peace and Democracy on March 1, 2017.Pakistan-India Peoples' Forum for Peace and Democracy (PIPFPD) expresses its...
View ArticleBJP's Feverish Attempts to Win UP Polls
EDITORIALThe marathon State Assembly elections are over. The seventh and final phase of polling in UP came to an end today—the percentage of polling being 60; whereas the second and final phase of...
View ArticleIn Memory of Comrade Srilatha Swaminathan
by Kumudini PatiUnique PersonaSrilatha Swaminathan was not only a comrade, with whom I worked for almost ten long years in the women's movement led by the All India Progressive Women's Association...
View ArticleChina-India Strategic Dialogue: Is there a Future?
by Bhartendu Kumar SinghEvery time China and India hold any dialogue, the outcome is often marginal compared to the expectations. After all, the two countries have been involved in a series of...
View ArticleThe Russian Revolution was not a Coup d'etat
The Annual Number of Mainstream (December 24, 2016) carried a piece titled ‘On Rosa Luxemburg and Russian Revolution'by Paresh Chattopadhyay (hereafter referred to as PC), a member of the Faculty of...
View ArticleYoung Indian Engineer Shot in Kansas City
by S. Sudhakar ReddyTrumpism is at its height spewing racist venom! Already a newly married young Indian engineer had fallen victim while his colleague, also a personal friend, was hospitalised after...
View ArticleAs The Days Go ByThese are days of great...
These are days of great uneaseFor the world's residual democracies.A breed of no-nonsense onesMan the slogans and the guns.They suffer no uncertainties.They have outlived Socrates.Prickly bramble from...
View ArticleToday's Imperative
From N.C.'s WritingsThe time has come when we can no longer afford to indulge in mutual recrimination. The time has come for us to hang our heads in shame.What has happened at Moradabad is a blot on...
View ArticleModi Government's assault on AIR, Print Media
MEDIAby Krishna JhaIn a calculated move to not only muffle the freedom of expression, but to make the entire media subservient to finance capital, the government has come out with its plans to gag the...
View ArticleDeveloping Linkage between the Muslim Mind and National Polity
TRIBUTESyed Shahabuddin (1935-2017), who breathed his last on March 4, 2017 at 6.22 am, was a former member of the Indian Foreign Service and one of the most articulate Muslim politicians of...
View ArticleIs the Judiciary in Peril?
Delhi University teacher G.N. Saibaba has been sentenced to life imprisonment for his links with Maoists. With due respect to the Court, I beg to differ with the punishment. Maoists are ultra-Left and...
View ArticleAppeal to Democrats and Citizens
In a bizarre, highly deplorable judgment delivered on Tuesday, March 7, Suryakant Shinde, Sessions Judge at the Gadchiroli District Court in Maharashtra, convicted Prof G.N. Saibaba (Delhi University),...
View ArticleIndian Workers Association, Great Britain Condemns Conviction of Professor...
The life sentence given on March 7, 2017 to Delhi University Professor G.N. Saibaba by the Gadchiroli District and Sessions Court in the Maharashtra State of India is shockingly unjust. The court has...
View ArticleWinners cheer, Losers sulk, but what Real Difference do Elections make to our...
IMPRESSIONSThis is a loner's lament when more than half the country is rejoicing over the BJP's overwhelming triumph in UP. The party and its leaders deserve the best of compliments. But the victory...
View ArticleBJP's Landslide Victory in UP and the Muslim Community
by Arup Kumar SenThe BJP's landslide victory, winning 325 seats in the 403-member Assembly in the 2017 elections in UP has opened up a new chapter in the political history of India. We are yet to get...
View ArticlePollsters' Calculations Go Haywire
by Shahira NaimThe following report appeared in The Tribune (Chandigarh) on March 12, 2017. It is being reproduced with due acknowledgement.Lucknow, March 11: Ending a 14 year ‘vanvaas' in Uttar...
View ArticleModi Marches on amid Hope and Fear
by L.K. SharmaA foreign correspondent who came to India to cover the State elections must stay on to report on this land of miracles. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is being called the Magic Man after he...
View ArticleBJP Government in UP Doesn't Bode Well for the Poor and Democracy
The shocking victory of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the North Indian State of Uttar Pradesh with over three-fourths of the seats in the Assembly elections appears too one-sided to be true. I...
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Making Sense of the Poll Results
POLITICAL NOTEBOOKThe outcome of the elections to the five State Assemblies has confounded everyone—the victor and the vanquished alike. Exit polls indicated the BJP was ahead of others in UP, but the...
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