Hotting up with China?
From N.C.'s WritingsOnce again China has appeared on the radar screen of Indian security. Although officially the Indian authorities have so far denied any knowledge of Chinese troop concentration all...
View ArticleMGNREGA Workers Need and Deserve Better Wages
The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) was enacted to ensure economic security to those most deprived of it by providing them a guarantee of employment close to their...
View ArticleRussia, Belt and Road, and the ‘Big Picture'
The following article was written sometime back but could not be used earlier due to unavoidable reasons.Russia has not been a significant beneficiary so far of the Chinese honeypot known as the Belt...
View ArticleMajoritarian Will vis-à-vis Constitutional Supremacy
by Vijay KumarThe happenings of the past few weeks, particularly indiscriminate ban on slaughter-houses and formation of anti-Romeo squads, ostensibly for insulating the young girls from eve-teasing...
View ArticleAgainst the Concept of Kashmiriyat
MUSINGSThe attack on Amarnath yatra pilgrims, killing seven (the figure has since risen to eight) and injuring several, is not just extremely tragic and shocking, but totally against the very concept...
View ArticleIn Defence of Prof G.N. Saibaba: Letter to Ram Lal Anand College Governing Body
ToThe Chairperson, Governing Body, Ram Lal Anand College,University of DelhiJune 14, 2017Subject: Appeal against disciplinary action and termination of services of Professor GN SaibabaDear Sir,We, the...
View ArticleDid Ambedkar Appreciate Puri's Jagannath?
The Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi's address to the countrymen styled as ‘Mann ki Baat' broadcast at 11:28 IST by the All India Radio on June 25, 2017 noted that:“Those who have studied Dr...
View ArticleProtest against Mob Lynchings and the Role of Civil Society in Breaking the...
by Aurobindo GhoseA fifteen-year old boy was lynched to death in a train by a mob, when he was returning home with his relatives, on the evening of Thursday, June 22, after doing his Eid shopping in...
View ArticleImproving the Quality of Education Still not a Priority for UP Government
In UP the Chief Minister has launched a campaign to get children enrolled into schools and linked it to a tree plantation drive. He has also distributed dress, socks, shoes, school bags, free books to...
View ArticlePilgrim's Progress
When terrorists attack from the front, it means that they are not afraid of the conse-quences. The story of counterattack to kill seven pilgrims, returning from the Amarnath Yatra in Kashmir, is...
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India-China Face-off
POLITICAL NOTEBOOKAs we go to press, the result of the presidential contest has been announced. Ram Nath Kovind, the BJP candidate and NDA nominee, has predictably won with 65.65 per cent votes. He...
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Terrorism, Qatar Siege and Global Strategic Undercurrents
by Rudra P. Pradhan and Jajati K. PattnaikIntroductionMore than four weeks into the Qatar—GCC diplomatic crisis leading to a series of embargo on Qatar keeps the global anticipation high and...
View ArticleWhy is Western Liberalism Crumbling?
BOOK REVIEWby Zaboor AhmadThe Retreat of Western Liberalism by Edward Luce; publication: Little Brown UK; 2017; pages: 234.The debate whether the West is on retreat and the East on ascension goes on...
View ArticleEPW Editor's Resignation and Role of Intellectuals
by Vivek Kumar SrivastavaOne of the most reputed journals of contemporary India, Economic and Political Weekly's editor Paranjoy Guha Thakurta has resigned due to conflict with the management on...
View ArticleEPW confronting Crisis of Identity
by Sankar RayThe spectre of Sachin Chaudhuri, thefounder of Economic Weekly, which was rechristened as Economic and Political Weekly in the mid-1960s, haunts the corridors of EPW at Lower Parel in...
View ArticleBe it currency shift, Aadhaar, GST, there is a mad rush; People feel...
IMPRESSIONSUsually life gets simpler as nations progress. But not in India where a barrage of sudden changes, new rules and revised regulations are making life burdensome for ordinary people. First it...
View ArticleOppressed to Oppressor
by Samit KarA major chunk of the Muslim population in India originated courtesy the inhuman oppression of Hinduism in the name of casteism and untouchability. Hinduism is the world's most Catholic...
View ArticleAnatomy of Basirhat (West Bengal) Violence
by Ram PuniyaniIn an insane act of violence two people lost their lives in Basirhat (West Bengal, 4.7.2017). For quite sometime the social media is abuzz that West Bangal is turning Islamist, Hindus...
View ArticleRumour to Riots in Bengal: Who do we blame and what do we do?
by Rumela Sen and Niloy SenguptaIn the first week of July, an inflammatory Facebook post by a teenage Hindu boy set off several days of communal violence in West Bengal's Baduria-Basirhat region....
View ArticleManipulating Narratives
by Garima Mani TripathiKarl Marx once said that the ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas. This is apparently relevant in recent times, when many minority community people have...
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