Nehru's Words for Today
On the occasion of Jawaharlal Nehru's 128th birth anniversary on November 14 this year, we are once again remembering our first PM who played such a crucial role in shaping post-independence India. We...
View ArticleBorder Confrontation Once Again
China does it again. It helps a well-known terrorist to escape the punishment. Azar Masood, a first rank terrorist, was sought to be banned by the UN. Beijing used its veto so that he stays free. This...
View ArticleHindutva's attempt to Polarise ‘God's Own Country'
by Ram PuniyaniEarlier in the year (2017) BJP President Amit Shah had launched a ‘Jan Suraksha Yatra', a two-week programme to highlight the death of RSS workers in Kerala. Many BJP dignitaries (twelve...
View ArticleTargeting Chidambaram a Political Ploy
So what has Shri Chidambaram said that is so new or offensive? In saying that most Kashmiris who speak of Azaadi are, in his estimation, seeking greater autonomy for the State, Chidambaramji has only...
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Demonetisation after One Year
EDITORIALThe first anniversary of demonetisation has been observed across the country.Almost a month after demonetisation it was written in these columns on December 1, 2016:“...the words of two...
View ArticleRussian Revolution and India - III: Training Up Indian Revolutionaries
by Shaukat UsmaniIndusky Kurs, the military academy for Indian revolutionaries set up at Tashkent, was a symbol of fraternal assistance that the new land of socialism extended to the fighters for...
View ArticleOn Indira Gandhi
We commemorate this year the birth centenary of Smt Indira Gandhi. She is often acknowledged as the most popular Prime Minister especially among the poor and weaker sections of our society. Under her...
View ArticleHumane Face
You say good and evil both reside in man,the good corralling the evil within.But do you see the evil breaking loose,dancing in ecstasy all over the globe? Innocent victims: men, women,...
View ArticleIndia's Indira
by Sardar Amjad AliWe are celebrating the birth centenary of Smt Indira Gandhi. This is also the 33rd anniversary of her martyrdom. Notwithstanding the bitterest criticisms from various quarters for...
View ArticleTwo Poems
The following are two poems composed by the author in October 1985, one year after Indira Gandhi's assassination. The first was translated by the author from the original Bengali. The second was...
View ArticleThe Indira Legacy
by P.C. JoshiIndira Gandhi is no more. The people of India are slowly emerging out of the trauma of her brutal assassination. Their psychological state is that of a people stricken by a massive...
View ArticleIndiraji's Martyrdom
Ten years have not dimmed but, on the contrary, brightened the image of Indira Gandhi as one of the most luminous leaders that India and the entire world have known in modern times. These years have...
View ArticleIndira Gandhi As I Knew Her
by Madhu LimayeIndira Gandhi held the supreme political office for a long period. She was the country's Prime Minister for sixteen years. Unlike Jawaharlal her Prime Ministership was not uninterrupted....
View ArticleIndira Gandhi and Third World
Indira Gandhi died as she lived—courageous and fighting.However she is judged at home on her domestic record, in the Third World she is remembered as a courageous woman, who had braved many odds to...
View ArticleFidel Castro's Tribute to Indira Gandhi
November 19 this year marks Indira Gandhi's birth centenary. On this occasion we remember her by reproducing what Cuba's President had written about her 32 years ago—this was one of the best tributes...
View ArticleAfter Indira Gandhi / Being a Proud Indian
From N.C.'s WritingsIndira Gandhi's 33rd death anniversary fell on October 31 this year. And her birth centenary is on November 19, 2017. Remembering her on this occasion we are reproducing the...
View ArticleChina's Support to Terrorist
This is a familiar exercise. China resents India's rule over Arunachal Pradesh. New Delhi, and, on the other hand, ignores the protests and treats the North-East territory as its own. Beijing has been...
View ArticleNivedita as an Incredible Educationist - Patriot
by Samit KarSwami Vivekananda came in contact with Margaret Elizabeth Nobel for the first time in November 1895 in the latter's friend's residence in London. He was then in the midst of a world- wide...
View ArticleIndian Struggles in 1917: On the Eve of the Russian Revolution
Seldom in history do things happen suddenly; they are often years in the making.It is known that during his South Africa years Mahatma Gandhi had corresponded with Leo Tolstoy, described by Lenin in...
View ArticleIndia's Contradictory Stances on Rohingya Refugees
by Kadayam SubramanianDuring his visit to Myanmar in early September, Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed support for the Myanmar regime's fight against “extremist violence” perpetrated by the...
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