Grim Warning from Bhopal / Mother India beckons us All / By Decree Alone
From N.C.'s WritingsGrim Warning from BhopalIt 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...
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by Gopal Krishna“We may admire what he does, but we despise what he is.” (referring tohumans who act mechanically on instructions) - Wilhelm von Humboldt, 1792The 33rd anniversary of the industrial...
View ArticleSudden Death of Justice Loya
The following is the letter of the former Chief of Naval Staff Admiral L. Ramdas (Retd.) to the Chief Justice of India.Dear Hon Chief Justice of India,All democracies exist and survive on three main...
View ArticleChallenge before Rahul Gandhi
Political parties all over the world have come to be closed shops. What is known as the ‘High Command' usually dictates who will be installed as the President. Rahul Gandhi has been ‘elected' as the...
View ArticleLove in the times of Fundamentalist Politics: Case of Hadiya
by Ram PuniyaniThe politics of communal polarisation is focusing on many identity issues, one being the Love-Jihad, where a Hindu girl married to a Muslim or Christian man is targeted, and is legally...
View ArticleYogi Cannot Continue as a Chief Minister
Justice Rajinder Sacher, Senior Member, National Executive, Socialist Party (India), and Dr Prem Singh, President, Socialist Party (India), have in a press release stated the following.The Preamble to...
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The Intent behind the Hysteria
POLITICAL NOTEBOOKThe mass hysteria created over the film Padmavati is acquiring dangerous dimensions. A BJP hothead of Haryana has announced a reward of Rs 10 crores to anyone who will behead the...
View ArticleUnbridled Surrogacy: A Pathway to Next Generation Crime
by G.K. Goswami and Siddhartha GoswamiAbstractSurrogacy may potentially result into genetic bewilderment because of diffused parentage if the gamete donors are not known. In the absence of known...
View ArticleThe Legacy of Indira Gandhi and Inherent Perils of Populism
by Sheel Bhadra KumarOn November 19, 2017, we have celebrated and marked the birth centenary of late and former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. This is also an appropriate moment to reminisce about her...
View ArticleIndira Gandhi — her Ideology of Action
by Vivek Kumar SrivastavaThis year completes hundred years of Mrs Indira Gandhi's birth. She was born in the year of the Bolshevik Revolution and died when the chain of orthodox Bolsheviks was on the...
View ArticleImpact of Bolshevik Revolution on South Asian Politics
Harris Khalique, a poet and essayist, is the author of Crimson Papers: Reflections on Struggle, Suffering, and Creativity in Pakistan. He has remained associated with labour, minority and women rights...
View ArticleRUSSIAN REVOLUTION AND INDIA-VI
by Shaukat UsmaniAccording to the decisions of the Third Congress of the Comintern a new university came into being in Moscow. This was then commonly known by the abbreviated name of the KUTV.It got...
View ArticleHelping the Homeless
As a train approaches an important station, there is a spurt of activity, particularly mobile phone calls, as passengers confirm about the car coming to pick them up. Even if they are not going to...
View ArticleA Long Road Ahead
by Prabira Sethy and Rakesh KumarIntroduction India has been pitching for a permanent seat since 24 years in the expanded membership of the United Nations Security Council arguing that the existing...
View ArticleMandir and Masjid can Co-exist
On December 6, the demolition of the Babri Masjid would be 25 years old. Instead of making amends for what the Congress Government did in 1992 with the connivance of the then Prime Minister, P.V....
View ArticleNot Sorrow but Atonement
The following piece, which was published as ‘Political Notebook' in Mainstream (December 12, 1992), is being reproduced on the twentyfifth anniversary of the demolition of the Babri Masjid. Its...
View ArticleHuman Rights: Basic Issues
From N.C.'s WritingsHuman Rights Day is observed on December 10 every year commemorating the day, in 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. To mark...
View ArticleSporting Moustache represents the New Format of Dalit Politics
by Arun SrivastavaIn three separate violent incident at least three Dalit youths were recently thrashed in the Gujarat villages by the Rajputs for “sporting moustache”. Humiliating and thrashing Dalit...
View ArticleWay to Socialism through Socialist Unity
by Prem SinghThis comment is about the situation that has arisen after the split in the Janata Dal (United). The comment is made by me as a citizen with a socialist background, and not as a member of...
View ArticleJudges Must Cross Lakshman Rekha
IMPRESSIONSJawaharlal Nehru showed the judiciary its place when he said in the Constituent Assembly in 1949: “No Supreme Court can make itself a third chamber. No Supreme Court and no judiciary can...
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