Development: An Elusive Conception
by V. Mathew KurianI. IntroductionThe post-Second World War era is considered the ‘age of development'. During this period, the very meaning of the term ‘development' has undergone great transition....
View ArticleAnother Futile Attempt
It was the then Home Minister, Gulzarilal Nanda, who brought the question of Hindi to the fore. This time, it is Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju who has done so. Many people in...
View ArticleTerrorism and Militancy: Are they quite the same?
Maoists (or Naxals, according to some) ambushed a 100-strong CRPF road-opening patrol (ROP) on April 24 in Chintagufa Police Station limits of Sukma district of Chhattisgarh, killing 25 CRPF personnel...
View ArticleNew Year in Kashmir
Some call it NaurehOthers NaurozNew year has comeHolding the hand of SpringAlmond blossoms blush pinkWhile white narcissus shyly smileYellow daffodils dance in bright gleeAnd purple hyacinths exudeA...
View ArticleStatement by the Concerned Citizens Group for Kashmir
The news of recurrence of violence, student protests and the video war on social media in Kashmir ought to disturb every right thinking Indian. Both the government and the Kashmiri protestors need to...
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On J & K, Sukma, DMC Poll Outcome
EDITORIALThe Kashmir situation continues to deteriorate and has lately assumed serious proportions with unprecedented demonstrations of students, including women students, protesting against the...
View ArticleTribute to Yevgeny Yeutushenko
Yevgeny Yeutushenko, 84, was one of the most famous names among the generation of Soviet Russian poets who came to the fore in the early sixties. He was born Yevgeny Alexandrovich Gangnus (he later...
View ArticleModi's Design to disdain Secular Values by denigrating Congress Leadership
by Arun SrivastavaNeither Narendra Modi nor the RSS would be credited with creating a Congress-Mukt India; instead the honour should go to the Congress leadership for fashioning such a situation. The...
View ArticleCrisis in Valley: Hard Time for Kashmiri Muslims
by Nilofar SuhrawardyPeace in Kashmir is likely to remain a mirage till greater importance is not given to hard realities responsible for the Kashmiri Muslims being provoked to the stage of unrest and...
View ArticleInstability Intensified
From N.C.'s WritingsThis week marks the completion of six months after the demolition of the Babri Masjid at Ayodhya on December 6. As one looks back on these six troubled months, one has to concede...
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An Appraisal and Perspective of Champaran Satyagraha
Part I Mahatma's ‘Mother cow' Perhaps the loudest and most sonorous euphoria over the cow was penned 95 years ago: “The cow is a poem of pity. One reads pity in the gentle animal. She is the mother to...
View ArticleConspiracy behind the Babri Demolition
by Ram PuniyaniAfter a long wait, the Supreme Court Chief Justice J.S. Khehar opined that the long pending dispute of Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid should be settled out of court. (March 2017) He even...
View ArticleGlobal Significance of Champaran Satyagraha
by S.N. SahuThe launching of the Champaran Satyagraha by Mahatma Gandhi hundred years back in 1917 marked a revolutionary landmark as much in the history of India as in the history of humanity for...
View ArticleMay Day, 2017
So crushing is the oppression,look where you will,that every hand is bloodiedThat robs the honest till.Sylllables of hope seem limpagainst the squeeze of perfidy;those that still sing of loveare like...
View ArticleUgly Side of War
War is ugly. It becomes uglier when it is between two inveterate neighbours. They go to any extent to harm and humiliate each other. Pakistan has mutilated and killed two Indian soldiers when they are...
View ArticleMadhu limaye's Ninetyfifth birth anniversary: Call for Unity of Progressive...
Socialist leader, parliamentarian and ideologue Madhu Limaye's 95th birth anniversary was aptly observed in New Delhi on May 1 through a public meeting attended by leaders of three streams of the...
View ArticleHow to Meet the Worsening Scenario in J & K
EDITORIALWhile those in power at the Centre are supremely nonchalant, the situation in J&K has been progressively turning from bad to worse. It was quite natural therefore that Pakistan would take...
View ArticleVanishing Trick
Where are the inebriated ratswho nine lac litres of liquor drankOutsmarting the Inquisitor's guarded cellar in rollicking Epicurean prank?Has anyone seen these pagan legions?Are they in stupor soundin...
View ArticleConvention against Communalism
A State-level Convention against Communa-lism, organised by the Sampradayikata Virodi Manch, was held at the University Institute, Kolkata, on May 3, 2017. The Convention adopted a resolution that...
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Rabindranath Tagore: An Extraordinary Zamindar
To mark the 156th birth anniversary of poet Rabindranath Tagore, the author has submited this article, as his tribute, underlining the poet's role as a an enlightened zamindar in East Bengal, now...
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