Remembering Mazhar Ali Khan On His Birth Centenary
Mazhhar Ali Khan Ali Khan, a legendary journalist who never flinched from uncompromising journalism, upholding the sanctity of the freedom of press, was born on June 6, 1917. He married Tahira Hyat...
View ArticleSovereignty and Security: Questioning the wisdom of privatising PSU-s
The Government of India (GoI) has decided to go ahead with “strategic sale” to a “strategic partner”, of 26 per cent of its present 54 per cent share in the Bharat Earthmovers Ltd (BEML), which...
View ArticleThere is More to it than Meets the Eye to India's Boycott of the Recently...
by Aurobindo GhoseThis article was sent on May 25 but could not be used earlier due to unavoidable reasons.It is ten days since the One Belt One Road (OBOR) Summit, called and hosted by China at...
View ArticleThese are Beefy Issues
The demolition of the Babri Masjid and the ban on cattle sale for slaughter are two sides of the same coin. They reflect the prejudice of the majority community. Both are fouling the air. Prime...
View ArticleDVC Still to Compensate its Displaced: Quest for Justice Kept Alive
by Krishna JhaOn May 5, 2014, a letter was received by the Home Secretary, Government of Jharkhand, from the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India, stating that according to the Seventh...
View ArticleBrezhnev in India / Superpower with a Difference
From N.C.'s WritingsAgainst the backdrop of PM Narendra Modi's visit to Russia and talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin the following two pieces that appeared in Mainstream in November-December...
View ArticleSt Petersburg Summit: Boosting Indo-Russian Economic Cooperation
The Indo-Russian annual summit, taking place alternatively in each other's capital, was this time held in St Petersburg, the northern capital of Russia and President Vladimir Putin's home town. This is...
View ArticleIs Russian-Indian Relationship Really in Disrepair?
The discourses in the Indian media over Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Russia within the framework of the annual summit meetings between the two leaderships have taken a bizarre turn. Modi is...
View ArticleStart Dialogue in Kashmir
by S. Sudhakar ReddyKashmir is again in the news. Actually it is always in the news. Mainstream media is generally giving the official version, except in exceptional cases. Kashmir is really burning....
View ArticleThe Barricades and Battlelines in Kashmir
Three years into the coalition government in Jammu and Kashmir, the battlelines between the partners seem now clearly drawn. A sort of Zionist discourse seems afloat, which cautions that the...
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Ominous Signals
EDITORIALThe Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, returned from a trip to major countries of Europe—Germany, Spain, Russia and France—last week and has left for Astana (Kazakhstan) today to attend the...
View ArticleRequest for bringing back the Mortal Remains of Bahadur Shah Zafar
The following letter, sent to the President, Pranab Mukherjee, from the General Secretary of the Socialist Party (India), Dr Prem Singh, on May 4, 2013, has been resent by Dr Prem Singh, who is now the...
View ArticleLebensborn of India: Fair, Tall, Intelligent ‘Customised baby'= Lebensborn...
A significant announcement in an English national daily recently to the effect that the ”RSS wing has a prescription for fair, tall ‘custo-mised' babies”1 is a startling disclosure, com-parable to a...
View ArticleA Trumped-up Charge
The Central Bureau of Investigation's raid on the owners of NDTV for an alleged concealment of share transaction from the SEBI that has caused a loss of Rs 48 crore to a private bank has been termed by...
View ArticleThree years down the lane, has the Modi Government taken the citizens for a...
by Ram PuniyaniOn May 26, 2017, the Modi Government completed three years in office. Various programmes such as the Modi fest were organised at various places and there are plans to celebrate them in...
View ArticleBabri Trial, Attack on R. Sooraj
MUSINGSAfter 25 Years, Advani and Company Stand in The Dock!The Babri Masjid was destroyed by L.K. Advani, Uma Bharati, Murli Manohar Joshi and hundreds of kar sevaks in the winter of 1992. Yet,...
View ArticleContours of China Crisis
From N.C.'s WritingsTwentyeight years ago, N.C. had left for China when the Tiananmen bloodbath took place on June 4, 1989. Apart from his despatches which appeared in The Times of India on the tragedy...
View ArticleNationalising' Workforce: Indian Labour and Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh
by Navneet Sharma and Divyanshu PatelWorkers of the world, Unite.—MarxWorkers, Unite the world.—Bharatiya Mazdoor SanghIf unity is to be of an abiding factor, it must be founded on a sense of...
View ArticleTrump condemns Qatar, sets Middle East on fire
In a shocking performance by his own standards, US President Donald Trump tore into Qatar in highly inflammatory language accusing it as a state sponsoring terrorism and casting it as an adversary of...
View ArticleWhen Trump calls for a war against Islamic terrorism and praises its...
IMPRESSIONSAbu Zubaydah, a “high-value” associate of fellow Saudi Arabian Osama bin Laden, was captured by America's CIA from a safe house in Pakistan in 2002. (Pakistan's ISI got $ 10 million for...
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