Lynching to Power
by Irfan EngineerMashal Khan, a 23-year-old journalism student, was seized from his dorm room by a mob that stripped and beat him, then shot him dead on April 13, 2017 in Mardan in North West Pakistan....
View ArticleStrong Action to Stop Mob Lynchings Should Get Top Priority
At the time of writing this the Union Government appears to be waking up rather belatedly towards its responsibility for checking mob lynchings and related violence which, instead of being checked,...
View ArticleDoklam Standoff: Beyond Border Dispute
by Ramakrushna PradhanThe recent border standoff between arch rival China and India has been further escalated with Beijing holding live fire drills in the Tibet-Qinghai plateau at a height of 5000...
View ArticleHindu nationalism risks pushing India into war with China
by Yu NingThe following article appeared in China's official publication Global Times on July 19, 2017. It brings out the Chinese stand on the Sino-Indian confrontation at Doklam.Since Indian troops...
View ArticleAn individualist President
It is not difficult to assess the regime of Pranab Mukherjee who retires from the office of President after completing his tenure of five years. He was a wrong choice and should not have adorned the...
View ArticleGopalkrishna Gandhi, the Man and his Personality
MUSINGSI heaved a sigh of relief when the Opposition came up with the name of Gopalkrishna Gandhi as their vice-presidential candidate. As I'd mentioned in one of my earlier columns, this grandson of...
View ArticleRaisina Hill's New Tenant / President's Moral Standing
Raisina Hill's New TenantSince President Pranab Mukherjee is laying down office this week, we carry here two pieces by Nikhil Chakravartty, written twenty years ago in July and November 1997, that...
View ArticleAruna Asaf Ali: A Tribute
FROM N.C.'S WRITINGSJuly 16 this year marked legendary freedom fighter Aruna Asaf Ali's 108th birth anniversary. She passed away twentyone years ago on July 29, 1996. As a tribute to her abiding memory...
View ArticleAmarnath and After: Misplaced Euphoria
Shri Raj Nath Singh, our hard-working Minister for Home Affairs, is a good secular man, one who has a felt recognition and understanding of the unquantifiably rich and diverse Muslim contribution to...
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Rank Opportunism Scales New Heights
EDITORIALWhatever has happened since last evening in Patna—that is, after the Bihar CM tendered his resignation as the head of the JD(U)-RJD-Congress mahagathbandhan government there following a...
View ArticleAnguish, not Anger / Riding the Tiger
From N.C.'s WritingsAnguish, not AngerThe countdown for a national crisis of fearsome dimension has begun. The build-up of a nationwide communal conflict could be discerned, as one finds that the...
View ArticleGlobal Times Lashes out at India: Doval visit won't sway China over border...
The following is a recent editorial that appeared in China's official organ, Global Times (July 25, 2017), bringing out its no-holds-barred attack on India over the Doklam standoff.India's National...
View ArticleOn Continuing Caste Violence in Saharanpur, UP - People's Alliance for...
DOCUMENTThe following is a statement issued by the Convener of the People's Alliance for Democracy and Secularism (PADS), Battini Rao.Fiftyfive Dalit houses were burnt down during the afternoon of May...
View ArticleNazism and Corporate Power
by Arup Kumar SenVery recently, I chanced upon a book, IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation, written by Edwin Black (Crown Books,...
View ArticleThe Epidemic of Lynching: It's a crying shame on humanity
by M.A. SofiWitness the pall of gloom that has enveloped the vale of Kashmir over a long period of time and which of late has assumed staggering proportions as a result of unprecedented violence having...
View ArticleHindi Spread requires Patience
Whenever a State language wants to spread itself to the national sphere, it naturally meets with some resistance. The limits of both are delineated. One is confined to the State while the other has the...
View ArticleLaloo is a Natural Target in the Fight against Corruption, but the Problem is...
IMPRESSIONSMention corruption, and the names of some politicians jump out like registered trademarks. Laloo Prasad Yadav is right when he says that the BJP Government is hunting him for political...
View ArticleLynching of Psyches!
MUSINGSA few years back, when I had first heard a well-known Delhi University professor talk in an open forum of the twisted history taught in the RSS-run schools, it was more than shocking as she had...
View ArticleAppeasement of Minorities is a Myth
by Ram PuniyaniThe turmoil in Kashmir has worsened since the encounter of Burhan Wani last year (2016). The ceaseless protests, the handling of protests leading to deaths and blinding of many is very...
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Relevant Concerns and Pertinent Queries
EDITORIALSeveral developments in the domestic sphere have attracted wide attention of late. These include the Reserve Bank of India's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) lowering its policy interest rate...
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