On N.C.'s 104th birth centenary: I. A. Rehman and Mubashir Hasan
On November 3 this year fell Nikhil Chakravartty's 104th birth anniversary. On this occasion we are reproducing two eminent Pakistani public figures' article and message sent on N.C.'s birth centenary...
View ArticleOctober Revolution and Women
‘Ten days that shook the world'—the tremor of the October Revolution was felt throughout the world with its cascading effects on society, polity and economy at large, its far-reaching impact on the...
View ArticleRevolution Belied
What exactly was unique about the October Revolution of 1917 in Russia? What was it that made this revolution fundamentally different from all other previous revolutions? Why was it that it was...
View ArticleThoughts on the Occasion of October Revolution's Centenary
Human society has witnessed so many revolutions but no revolution has influenced human history so much as has the Great October Revolution of 1917. No other revolution has triggered so profound...
View ArticleRussian Revolution and India
by Shaukat UsmaniThe approaching fiftieth anniversary of the October Revolution brings to mind many episodes connected with it. This Golden Jubilee of that great historical event of 1917 takes us back...
View ArticleRed Star Glows Brighter
From N.C.'s WritingsNovember 7 this year marks the centenary of the October Revolution that heralded a new dawn in the world. Today a hundred years later the Soviet Union, the product of that...
View ArticleDecoding Dera: A Perspective on its Historicity and Guru Phenomena
by Geetanjali AtriWith the imprisonment of Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh in the 15-year-old rape cases in the last week of August this year and the violence that followed, the sacred imagination of the...
View ArticleCan Interlocutor Help Solve Kashmir?
The Government of India has appointed Dineshwar Sharma, the former Intelligence Bureau chief, as an interlocutor to find a solution to Kashmir's problems. This is not the first time that such an...
View ArticleTaj Mahal
When great historians write about the past, They know they must rise above the facts; Facts are often petty impediments To the grand vision they wish to enact.Thus years ago it was boldly writ In a...
View ArticleChina: Xi's Hegemony sealed at 19th CPC Congress but Questions Remain
by Sankar RayThe 19th Congress of the Communist Party of China ended its six-day jamboree adding “Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era” to its Constitution as an...
View ArticleEnhancing Kashmiri Alienation
EDITORIALAs was only to be expected, the Hurriyat Conference has rejected any dialogue with the Centre's interlocutor.A week after the Centre appointed an interlocutor to engage all Kashmiris,...
View ArticleViren Chhabra (1927-2017)
TRIBUTEExactly a month ago, in the morning of September 14, 2017, passed away in New Delhi veteran leader of the print industry Viren Chhabra who has rightly been described as the print industry's...
View ArticlePartnering with Public Schools: Strengthening MR Vaccination Programme
by Pradeep NairSchools are the most appropriate place to deliver new vaccines to children and adolescents who may not receive them in a conventional healthcare set-up. However, engaging schools in...
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Mapping India in Global Hunger Index 2017
by Siba Sankar Sahu‘An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.'—Albert EinsteinThe Global Hunger Index (GHI) is designed to comprehensively measure and track hunger globally and by country and...
View ArticleRussian Revolution and India - II
by Shaukat UsmaniThe dominant section of the Indian national leadership of the time was frightened with the on- rush of revolutionary ideas pouring from the other side of the Pamirs. This leadership...
View ArticleTesting Time for Non-Alignment • After Menon's Exit / Do We Need Nehru Today?...
From N.C.'s WritingsTesting Time for Non-Alignment • After Menon's ExitWith American arms flown in in consi-derable quantity, along with defence weapons from other Western countries, the scales of...
View ArticleTop One Per Cent More Powerful than Ever Before
COMMUNICATIONIndia's independence was supposed to herald a period of economic progress based on equality and justice. So it is disturbing the know that in some respects the levels of inequality now may...
View ArticleNehru in the Era of Collapsing Neoliberalism
Twenty years ago, while presenting his first Budget as the Finance Minister of India, Dr Manmohan Singh launched “a sweeping set of neoliberal reforms that would dramatically alter the country's...
View ArticleSome Memories of Nehru
by S. Mohan KumaramangalamIt was in 1936 that I first met Panditji. I was in my second year at Cambridge and he had come to Europe in connection with the serious illness of his wife, Smt Kamala...
View Article‘Indian People Unitedly Back Jawaharlal Nehru and his Policies'
The following are excerpts from the speech that the Deputy Leader of the united CPI Group in Parliament delivered on the Chinese aggression in the Lok Sabha precisely fiftyfive years ago on November...
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