Reassessing Demonetisation: ‘RBI says 99 per cent is back'
According to the RBI, 99 per cent of the demonetised currency has come back to the banks. What, in your opinion, is the significance of this statement? What the RBI has announced now was known to it as...
View ArticleThe Union Cabinet Reshuffle
Prime Minister Modi has reshuffled his Cabinet putting an end to endless media speculation about who will be ‘in' and who will be ‘out'. In the event, some Ministers who were found to be lacking in...
View ArticleGauri Lankesh's Assassination
COMMENTARY“Ms Lankesh was like my mother. She once told me that if you are being attacked then you know that you are on the right track... powerfull people are being killed just to send across a...
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BRICS Summit, India-China, Rohingya Issue
EDITORIALFrom all available information, the Ninth BRICS Summit at Xiamen in southeastern China has been a success from the Indian standpoint. Not only were the substantive talks between China's...
View ArticleIndia and the Evolving New World Order
This article has been sent to us for publication by the eminent Marxist-Maoist thinker, Kobad Ghandy, from the Visakhapatnam Central Jail where he is currently lodged. He started writing it in...
View ArticleUS-Russia ties are heading south
The US-Russia diplomatic tit-for-tat escalated with the announcement in Washington on August 31 ordering the Russians to shut down their consulate in San Francisco as well as two trade annexes. Moscow...
View ArticleAnother Effort to Revive Bigotism
With a clutch of followers, Rashtriya Swyamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat was about to storm into Kolkata when West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee cancelled the use of a hall which the...
View ArticleFor My Sister, Gauri Lankesh
Tonight I write the saddest lines,They killed my sister, last night.As she came back from work,Parked the carTo open the gate to her house,They pumped three bulletsInto her forehead,And there she...
View ArticleI Shall Not Be Silenced
To the men —Cage me if you wish.You can bind my hands and legsBut not my thoughts and ambitionsRemember that ideas are bulletproof.To the society —Condemn me if you wish.You can insult and ostracise...
View ArticleIndia's Army Chief and his Public Posturing on China
by Gautam SenGeneral Bipin Rawat, India's Army Chief of Staff, has spoken twice publicly on India's ability to wage a two-front war against China and Pakistan, inter-alia stating that internal...
View ArticleAdieu...Comrade Gauri!
by K. Ramachandran“If Gauri had not attacked the RSS, she would have been alive today”—that was BJP MLA from Chikmagaluru C.D. Ravi. Kannada TV channels were flashing this statement made on September...
View ArticleDarkness Falls On Our Democracy
As darkness fell on September 5, noted activist-journalist Gauri Lankesh was entering her home in Bengaluru, and unknown gunmen extinguished the life of a courageous and outspoken upholder of democracy...
View ArticleThe Short Shelf-life of Post-Truth
It is extremely rare to hear murmurs of discontent from within the Bharatiya Janata Party. Which of course does not mean that discontent does not ever exist.A brave BJP Member of Parliament has, if you...
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Disturbing Scenario Unfolds
EDITORIALThe economic situation is worsening by the day. This is the naked truth which is staring us in the face. Lately the fuel prices have been increased phenomenally—seven per cent increase in the...
View ArticleDraft of a Poem
Under the steadfast vigilof the plestar,all along the milky way,I hear the steady tread of revolutionacross the firmanent.Millions are on their march.Does it not raisean answering echo in your...
View ArticleThe ‘Madam' as Defence Minister
WOMEN'S WORLDby Garima Mani Tripathi“Men define women not as ‘herself' but relative to them,” wrote Simone De Beauvoir in The Second Sex (1949). While Ms Nirmala Sitharaman's appointment as the first...
View ArticleLooking for a model Military Industrial Complex (MIC)
by Bhartendu Kumar SinghMilitary power, along with economic power, constitute the great power edifice in contem-porary international relations. Yet, India's attempts to consolidate its great power...
View ArticleThe Nero Syndrome
Prime Minister Modi chose to celebrate his birthday, September 17th, by inaugurating the Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP). There were several letters written to him, informing him in case he did not know,...
View ArticleInjuring Mother Narmada
The rhetoric says that the dream of dear Mother Narmada, of flowing from Madhya Pradesh into Gujarat and irrigating lakhs of hectares, has now been fulfilled with the raising of the Sardar Sarovar Dam...
View ArticleIs India Run by Dynasty?
Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi is wrong when he says that all of India runs on dynasties. Ruling means wielding power at the Centre. Only Jawaharlal Nehru's family has had the opportunity to do...
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