Hindutva and Cow Agenda: Love for Cow or Hatred for “Others”?
by Ram PuniyaniThere have been several brutal lynchings of Muslims and beatings of Dalits on the issue of Holy cow. Mohammad Akhlaq in Dadri, Pehlu Khan in Mewat being just two of the cases from the...
View ArticleImbecility and Impudence: The Emergency and RSS
by Navneet Sharma and Anamica“Imbecility of men, history teaches us, always invites the impudence of power.”—Late (Justice) H. R. KhannaJune 25, 1975 to March 21, 1977 is the blackest period in the...
View ArticleJapan's Emperor Akihito to Abdicate— First in 200 Years
by Rajaram PandaContextJune 16, 2017 emerged as an important date in the history of Japan's imperial family. It was on this day that the special one-time law, passed on June 9 allowing the Emperor to...
View ArticleHatred For Gandhi is a Fundamental Element of Hindutva Discourse
Amit Shah is no ordinary Indian ruler. He is the President of the BJP which rules the Centre and a majority of the Indian States. Most importantly, he is the other half of our PM, Modi; they together...
View ArticleBJP approach to Cattle-trading will hurt the Economy; but who cares since the...
IMPRESSIONSIt's clear: The cow dominates India. The world is changing in radical ways and life-and-death issues confront our country—GST‘s impact on everyday life, the ”dirty war” in Kashmir, rising...
View ArticleTrump on Surge, Redeems Pledge on Russia Ties
Partisan tribalism is so intense among the US elites that a consensus is impossible to reach as regards the main topic of discussion at the meeting between President Donald Trump and Russian President...
View ArticleWill Hamburg Summit improve Relations between Russia and America?
by R.G. GidadhubliThe summit of G-20 nations in Hamburg gave an opportunity for the long awaited meeting between the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, and the US President, Donald Trump, on July 7,...
View ArticleCourageous Civil Servants
Government officers after retirement take to sanyas, but some courageous ones have spoken against the intolerant society that India is becoming. In their open letter they say: “It appears there is a...
View ArticleUnderground Couriers Safe Conduit for Black Money
by A.V.V.S.K. RaoThe Greater the Wealth, the Thicker will be Dirt. — J.K. Galbraith, (Harvard, USA)IntroductionThe black money created ‘Parallel Economy' poses a serious threat to stability and growth...
View ArticleA Whiff of Fresh Air from Sri Lanka
As the Sirisena-Wickremesinghe Government is short of a few months to roll on to its third year in office, Sri Lanka's declining economy and unresolved political issues have served to erode much of the...
View ArticleScanning a Landmark
From N.C.'s WritingsImportant events are graduated into landmarks in History as they are invested with hindsight. Perhaps it would be premature to call an event a landmark on the very morrow of its...
View ArticleWest Bengal: Communal Flare-up in Basirhat - Not Spontaneous but Planned
Widespread communal violence broke out in Basirhat and its surrounding areas on July 4. Apparently, it was a ‘spontaneous' outburst of Muslim anger against a highly objectionable and provocative...
View ArticleTime to Judge the Chinese Chicanery
by Sankar RayRevered and erudite journalist Sunanda Kishore Datta-Ray, author of Smash and Grab: Annexation of Sikkim, has very succinctly stated about the mounting tension in the Dokolam plateau:...
View ArticleBright and Dark
EDITORIALThe incident in the evening of last Monday (July 10) at Batengoo on the Srinagar-Jammu National Highway in South Kashmir—that resulted in the killing of seven Amarnath pilgrims, including five...
View ArticleOde to Liu Xiaobo
The following is a poem composed as a tribute to Liu Xiaobo, Nobel Laureate and political prisoner who recently passed away in Chinese custody.An empty chair!His presence was deniedto receive the...
View ArticleSocialist Party on India-China Border Dispute
The following is the statement issued by the Socialist Party (India)'s President, Dr Prem Singh, on July 18, 2017 on the latest India-China border dispute. The aggressive Kashmir policy of the Modi...
View ArticleEssays Honouring Prabhat Patnaik
REVIEW ARTICLEby Subhendu DasguptaEconomic Challenges for the Contemporary World : Essays in Honour of Prabhat Patnaik edited by Mausumi Das, Sabyasachi Kar, Nandan Nawn; Sage, New Delhi; 2016.This...
View ArticleNirbhaya Case: Need for a Social Movement!
WOMEN'S WORLDby Nilofar SuhrawardyWhat can be said about the capital punishment accorded to the accused in the Nirbhaya gang-rape case? Should it be expected to have any significant impact on the...
View ArticleTime to Resurrect Shekhon: An Eminent Air Warrior of Yesteryears
by D.C. BakshiTolstoyan Foreshortening is a ‘perspective' in which an individual recedes behind the accidents of history or the forces of society; his image getting restricted to the ‘episodic'.General...
View ArticleThree Deaths — More than a Personal Loss
TRIBUTEby Prabhat PatnaikWhen one reaches a certain age, one has to steel oneself to the idea of hearing periodically the news of one's friends passing away. But when the passing of several friends...
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