Women's Rights in India: Miles to go
WOMEN'S WORLDby Archna KatochWhile celebrating the International Women's Day on March 8, 2017, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said: “The truth is that north and south, east and west...
View ArticleReturn of Indira Gandhi
From N.C.'s WritingsIn the backdrop of the BJP's resounding success in the Assembly polls, and the elections in UP in particular, we are reproducing the editorial the founder of this journal wrote...
View ArticleBonded Silence
She is in her early playing teens,uprooted from the scenic settingof her village home nestling againsta huge sheltering mango grove,then transplanted on the top floorof a big building of iron,...
View ArticlePakistan in flap over Russia's Afghan Moves
Pakistan is finding itself between the rock and a hard place with the announcement by the Russian Foreign Ministry on March 10, 2017 that the Afghan National Security Advisor, Mohammad Hanif Atmar, was...
View ArticleMoscow's Step disturbs Kabul, New Delhi
The six-nation conference on Afghanistan's security future held in Moscow on February 15 has brought about considerable disquiet in the two participating capitals, Kabul and New Delhi. Since the...
View ArticleTwo-Year Battle Fought From Prison: How Handcuffed Prisoners Defeated Biggest...
by Bharat Dogra and Jagmohan SinghThe following article is being published to mark the eightysixth anniversary of the martyrdom of Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru. They were executed in Lahore on...
View ArticlePolitics of Flags: India‘s Largest National Flag on the India-Pakistan Border
by Gautam SenIndia has recently hoisted the largest and tallest national Tricolour at the Wagah-Attari crossover point, on the Indian side. The flag is of 120 feet by 80 feet dimension, flies at a...
View ArticleModi's vision has a target year, exactly same as Xi's; but Modi's foot...
IMPRESSIONSby T.J.S. GeorgeMiracles never cease. On March 12 Prime Minister Narendra Modi told a gathering of BJP workers: “I have a milestone of 2022 when India completes 75 years of independence.” He...
View ArticlePeople in Politics: The Dynamics of Polarisation and Power
by Pradeep Nair and Sandeep SharmaIn 1998, while being the head of an alliance of 26 political parties, the then Prime Minister of India, Atal Behari Vajpaee, once frustratingly said that India should...
View ArticleRSS is the Biggest Threat to Democracy
Once again the forces using terror and violence have prevailed over the culture and tradition of reason, debate and discussion. It is a dark day in the history of the Indian higher educational...
View ArticleRemembering that Dalit Scholar........
by Binoy ViswamWhen I met Muthukrishnan's father, he was sitting on a concrete bench in front of the mortuary at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). His eyes were manifesting the...
View ArticleDiscrimination laces Democracy
by Kuldip NayarHowever democratic we may be, discrimi-nation on the basis of the caste system has not diminished. Every day, in some part or the other, there are instances of Dalits being burnt alive....
View ArticleDemocracy under Attack, Rihai Manch's Ten Points
MUSINGSWhat's left of our democracy! Gone are the traditional notions of Governors being non- partisan. In fact, right from the summer of 2014, when the BJP came centre-stage, it has been appointing...
View ArticleWas there tampering with EVMs (Electronic Voting Machines) in UP Elections?
Kumari Mayawati, the chief of the Bahujan Samaj Party, has alleged that the prime reason for the landslide victory of the BJP in the Uttar Pradesh elections is due to tampering with the EVMs. “How come...
View ArticleThe Rhetoric and the Reality
In making the choice of Yogi Adityanath as the chief executive of Uttar Pradesh in preference to more run-of-the-mill pracharaks, Narendra Modi has made a telling declaration of intent both for the...
View ArticleMahant Yogi Adityanath as CM of Uttar Pradesh: Why the Hindutva Juggernaut...
A few well-meaning friends with genuine concern about the future of our democratic-secular polity are shocked by the decision of the 325 MLAs of the BJP and its allies unanimously choosing Adityanath...
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Time to Meet the Grim Challenge
EDITORIALAs one writes these lines, twelve days have passed since March 11, when the results of the five State Assembly elections came out. Till date one has not come across any detailed analysis of...
View ArticleCan Madarassas be compared with RSS-run Schools?
by Ram PuniyaniDigvijay Singh's tweet ‘Madrassas and Sarswati Shishu mandirs (SSM), both spread hate' (February 23, 2017) has evoked a lot of response from diverse sections. On the one hand, Muslim...
View ArticleUniform Civil Code: A much-needed reform or a political tool?
The Shiv Sena (the vanguard of moral policing and culture as seen recently in Kerala) says: “The Muslim Law Board should support the UCC as it will help the community, especially the women to come out...
View ArticleNow consider this Yogi-ji:
Unburdened by subtlety, He spews his favourite hate, Upfront and straight—Not a tree but a cactus he. Badri Raina - 2017
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