With My Hands
Be afraid of the darkness no more, Cover your face with my hands, Drink sorrow and joy into your eyes, Build victory with your encircling arms, Weave your tempo with my beat.The intolerable light burns...
View ArticleThe Army as the Politicians' Human Shield?
The recent video clip of a civilian strapped to the front of an Army vehicle deployed in internal security (IS) operations in Kashmir has made headlines. Many Army veterans are defending it as a...
View ArticleAdvice
Age:‘This wind, this storm, this furious flow This thunder and lightning, this frightening show The night is dark, the ocean heaves No torch to guide, or star aglow Traveller, stay where your are,...
View ArticleGive Kashmir a Ceasefire
by H.K. DuaSeveral prominent citizens from different walks of life have called for a declaration of ceasefire in Kashmir during the month of Ramzan, beginning on Friday (May 26). Their appeal needs to...
View ArticleSaeed Suhrawardy
TRIBUTEby Masoom MoradabadiWords fail to express the loss caused by the demise of Saeed Suhrawardy Sahab to the Urdu world. As he was laid to rest on March 10 at the burial ground, Mehendiyan, near the...
View ArticleReimagining India in Britain
by L.K. SharmaThe Great India Show covers even science in India. It has been blessed by the two governments. Britain is out on a mission to rediscover India.Those wanting to take a condensed course in...
View ArticleWhen the World is a Stranger
When the world is a stranger,Go humanise it;When the world is a dictator,Go democratise it.When the world will not lookInto the kindness in your eyes,Sing a song of togethernessThat callousness...
View ArticleAn Adventurist India
The showmanship displayed in reshaping and reorienting Indian foreign policy in the first few months of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ascendancy to power in 2014, which had dazzled diplomats and...
View ArticleA Horse's Sunset
With a glistening young body,shiny trimmed manes, slender legs,the colt gracefully canteredinto the glittering world of celluloid.It grew into a steed, gallopingalong dusty roads, sandy tracks,with a...
View ArticleLessons from the Chinese Aircraft Carrier
by Bhartendu Kumar SinghAircraft carriers have, for long, symbolised great power prestige and power projection. China also recognised the centrality of aircraft carriers in its military modernisation...
View ArticleSaffron Nationalism and its Perils
by Ashok CellyThanks to the BJP and its sister organisations, the media is buzzing with the discourse on nationalism. The ruling party has emerged as the self-appointed champion of nationalism....
View ArticleRSS-controlled Garbh Vigyan Sanskar in pursuit for “Master Race”
by Ram PuniyaniThe RSS agenda of Hindu Rashtra draws heavily on the superiority of the Aryan race and greatness of Brahmanical values. The ideology constructed by this organisation tells us that Aryans...
View ArticleRSS rolls on Nazi Racist Project of producing ‘Aryan' Babies in India
by Shamsul IslamAccording to press reports, one of the RSS offshoots, Garbh Vigyan Sanskar (Uterus Science Culture), following the Vedic preaching and post-World War II experiments in Germany, is...
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Exploring the “Achievements” of Modi Rule
EDITORIALThe Narendra Modi-led BJP Government at the Centre has completed three years and the party leaders are busy projecting their dispensation's “achievements” in these three years.The real...
View ArticleAnatomy of the ISI: Providing Insights into its Valuable Pitfalls, Failures...
BOOK REVIEWby Ahmad ZaboorFaith, Unity, Discipline: The ISI of Pakistan by Hein G. Kiesling; Harpercollins India; 2016; pages: 307.Writing about the intelligence agency is the most uphill task given...
View ArticleThe Red Day
Yours is the face I saw in a procession.All day I searched for you and then at dusk I found you sitting in my home resplendent beside the lamp.Refusing me all day you held me close at night. In that...
View ArticleOn Fiftieth Anniversary of the Naxalbari Uprising: Looking Back
The following piece appeared in this journal on July 18, 1992 to mark twentyfive years of the Naxalbari movement. On the fiftieth anniversary of the same struggle it is being reproduced for the benefit...
View ArticleOn Fiftieth Anniversary of the Naxalbari Uprising: Wages of Conceit and Eulogy
Looking back at the ‘spring thunder'—the ecstatic definition of the historic Naxalbari struggle by the Radio Peking in mid-1967—after 50 years from many angles is a reflex of historical consciousness....
View ArticleOn Fiftieth Anniversary of the Naxalbari Uprising: Memory of a Meeting with...
As the fiftieth anniversary of the Naxalite movement is being observed, old memories come crowding in my mind. One unforgettable memory is that of meeting Charu Mazumdar, the leader of the Naxalite...
View ArticleGlorious Dust (Editorial, Pakistan Times, January 31, 1948)
Mahatma Gandhi is dead. The world has been deprived of the sight and sound of his frail body and aged voice—the body and voice that had in the last few months almost lost, for a large section of...
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