Baptism of Fire
Dear Reader,Our country and our people have been through a baptism of fire on the northern border in the past month. The Chinese aggressor by his unprincipled and unscrupulous rape of our soil has...
View ArticleIndo-Pakistan Relations: New Perspective
Military aid has suddenly become the main topic of political discussion in New Delhi, almost downgrading Sheikh Abdullah's olive-branch mission to Pakistan and Sri Nehru's repeat offer to Peking to...
View ArticleNew Stature, New Tasks
It is like the end of a long night for men, women, and children of this country as Bangladesh proclaims her independence from Pakistan's military junta. The rejoicing is not merely in the feat of...
View ArticleGood-bye to all that
There comes a moment in the life of a paper, as in the life of many an individual, when the sense of purpose is in danger of being lost by the constraints of circumstances. Such a moment has come today...
View ArticleAfter Nehru; Lobbies Squabble
As the golden flame licked up the funeral pyre, an unforgettable scene ended near the banks of the Jumna and under the shadow of the Red Fort.It was an emotional experience without precedence, to watch...
View ArticleGrim Warning from Bhopal
It was a massacre of innocents by all counts. What happened at the Union Carbide plant at Bhopal in the early morning of December 3 was not just a tragedy but a heinous crime which killed nearly two...
View ArticleBijbehara: A Challenge to Nation's Conscience
Autumn has set in—the chinar in its gorgeous robe. But it is an autumn of bitter sorrow for the hapless people of Kashmir. The Valley which was known as the paradise on earth has been turned into a...
View ArticleFor a New Frontier
Fifteen years have gone by and yet the Kashmir dispute has defied settlement. And today it has got entangled in a mass of other issues, ranging from defence against the Chinese menace to the securing...
View ArticleWhither Left?
After the fall of the Janata Government at the Centre, a process of realignment of political forces appeared to have begun, rousing hopes for the emergence of a broad Left and democratic front...
View ArticleMistaken Stress on Doubling the Fund for Biological Diversity
by Anwar SadatFinance constitutes one of the most crucial aspects of negotiations dealing with the two major global environmental problems—biological diversity and climate change. It not only has the...
View ArticleUS Presidential Election 2012
by N.V.K. MurthyA TV commentator speaking about the 2012 US Presidential Election said it was an election where hope was pitted against memory. A couple of months prior to the election, many predicted...
View ArticleThe Role of Sequestration in Reversing Anthropogenic Climate Change
by Anandi SharanMuch has been written about the need to adapt to climate change, to help the poor and the vulnerable. Much more has been written about how to put a price on carbon dioxide emissions to...
View ArticleThe Song of the Juniors
Our early years had been scadling pain,Our times hung heavy all the while,What calamities, what disasters to pass through!On the wide wilderness of hugetimeI see your hand beckoning under your banyon...
View ArticleNorth Korean Unha-3 Launch: How Effective are Sanctions in the Midst of the...
by Shubhra ChaturvediThe North Korean rocket launch on December 12, 2012 in the Pyongyang province, that came after much speculated delay, achieved the goal that it probably aimed at: an immediate...
View ArticleIndian Left Today
Nineteen Eightyeight will go down in history as the year in which a widely current myth was exploded—the myth that the entire Opposition from the extreme Left to the extreme Right should be united in a...
View ArticleDo We Need Nehru Today?
Twelve years ago Jawaharlal Nehru died is harness on May 27. Inevitably, much has changed in these twelve years among his people and in the humanity at large. He was not the man who would have...
View ArticleGood-bye Feroze
Parliament has just repealed the Parliamentary Proceedings (Protection of Publication) Act which came into force twenty years ago in 1956. Late Feroze Gandhi, who initiated and piloted the Bill in...
View ArticleJourney beyond Marx
In the midst of the excitement over the dramatic developments taking place before our very eyes in the Soviet Union, we tend to miss their historic significance. In the presence of History, one is apt...
View ArticleThe Valley of Incongruities
Whatever may be the substance of the much-advertised point of difference between Peking and Washington over the question of détente, it may be safely assumed that Gerald Ford's talks with Mao Tse-tung...
View ArticleDanger Signal of Degeneration
I write these lines after a fortnight has passed since that shocking incident took place in a suburb of the city of Calcutta. Three women and their driver returning from duty assigned by the...
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