Criterion for Presidents
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) cannot hide its anti-Muslim fangs. Instead of building con-sensus behind the candidature of Hamid Ansari for presidentship, the party has appointed its top three...
View ArticleOpen Letter by Retired Officials on the Growing Climate of Religious Intolerance
The following is an open letter of sixtyfive retired officials released on June 12, 2017.We are a group of retired officers of All India and Central services of different batches, who have worked with...
View ArticleGJM Revives Separate Gorkhaland Demand—Darjeeling Burns Again
The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) has suddenly revived the demand for a separate Gorkhaland and the Darjeeling hills are witnessing widespread violence. GJM supporters have repeatedly clashed with the...
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Ideological Struggle in Presidential Poll
EDITORIALAs we go to press, it has become clear that the country will face yet another presidential election next month. The Opposition parties, as many as 17 of them, decided today to put up, by rare...
View ArticlePimps and Procurers of Judiciary a threat to Indian Democracy
“Courts are comparable to brothels.”1—Bankim Chandra ChatterjeeBankim Chandra Chatterjee (June 26, 1838-April 8, 1894), a Deputy Magistrate of the Government of Bengal, wrote the celebrated novel...
View ArticleStark Realities a Muslim faces in India Today!
MUSINGSSomething seems to be going wrong. The minority communities of the country have never felt so helpless and insecure ...mind you, their apprehensions and worries are growing with every single...
View ArticleOpen Letter to Pravda / Marx and Marxism: A Personal Testament / Journey...
From N.C.'s WritingsThe following open letter to Pravda, the Soviet Communist Party's daily organ, was written fiftyfive years ago by N.C. as an ‘Indian Marxist'. In the introduction to the letter it...
View ArticleNikhil Chakravartty's nineteenth death anniversary: Tributes to N.C. from the...
Nikhil Chakravartty's nineteenth death anniversary fell on June 27, 2017. On this occasion we are reproducing some write-ups on him by three leading journalists who knew him quite closely and a...
View ArticleIndian Democracy at Crossroads — A Lesson from India's Past
by O.P. JaiswalWe have numerous references of gana-sangha or gana-rajaya in Buddhist, Jain and Greek literature. It was an alternative polity to the kingdom and probably may represent the continuation...
View ArticleCow—Metamorphosis from being a Divine Anmal to a Political Animal!
Though many Biblical stories are associated with many animals, it is rare to see an animal elevated to the status of the divine in the Western societies. Why divinity of the cow is unique to India? Cow...
View ArticleWhy RSS pushes for the Cattle-slaughter Ban
by Kumudini PatiOn May 30, 2017, newspapers reported that the BJP chief, Amit Shah, had rushed to the Nagpur RSS headquarters and was closeted with RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat in an in-camera meeting for...
View ArticleThe ‘New' Idea of India
by M.A. SofiHow does one describe a political formation, a party, an outfit whose single most purpose of being in politics is to win elections, never mind the tools and methods being employed in...
View ArticleEmergency Should Never Be Forgotten
Strange, in the process of selecting who should be the next President of India, the nation has forgotten the Emergency which was imposed some fortytwo years ago. More than one lakh people were detained...
View ArticleWhat was Gandhi's Caste and what did Congress Represent?
by Ram PuniyaniVolumes have been written on Gandhi and the Indian National Congress. There are diverse views about both. The views on them depend on the ideology of the person giving these views. To...
View ArticleWhy I think Ramnath Kovind is not the Right Candidate to be President of India
That the UPA and NDA have chosen Dalits to be candidates for the office of the President is an expression of the importance of the Dalit constituency in the politics of India. As a person with a public...
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Indo-US Summit, Lynch-Mobs on the Rise
EDITORIALPM Narendra Modi has returned to the Capital after his visit to the US and talks with President Donald Trump, both of which have been termed as broadly successful. The success of the trip has...
View ArticleNew Turn in Bengal Politics
Explosive exchange of words took place between the West Bengal Governor, Keshari Nath Tripathi, and State Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee, over the recent communal flare-up in Baduria and adjacent...
View ArticleThe Extended LAC
by Bhartendu Kumar SinghUntil now, India had only one Line of Actual Control (LAC) with China. But if things work well as per the Chinese strategy, the China- Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) could...
View ArticleBold Appraisal of Crisis of Constitutionalism
BOOK REVIEWby Vijay KumarThe Constitution Of India: Miracle, Surrender, Hope by Rajeev Dhavan; Lexis Nexis in collaboration with Universal Law Publishing; pages: 173; Price: Rs 325.Rajeev Dhavan's...
View ArticleWe Are All Saying . . . . . . . Not In My Name
by Binoy ViswamThe Sabarmati Ashram speech of Prime Minister Narendra Modi was widely discussed in the country. The speech and the place he chose to deliver it definitely reflect the cunningness of RSS...
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