An Interesting episode: Congress Presidential Election
by Sardar Amjad AliIn the annals of the history of the Indian National Congress, December 16, 2017 will remain a memorable day. Not only because a change in the presidency of this one-hundred-...
View ArticleAssam in a Quagmire
The Hindutva politics has brought Assam on the brink of a massive social unrest. The reason is the party‘s decision to grant citizenship to all Bengali Hindu immigrants from Bangladesh after March 25,...
View ArticleSkill Development Minister, RSS and Secularism
by Binoy ViswamAll along its history the BJP has had a position on secularism. It was full of antagonism and arrogance against the very concept. To reflect this, their stalwarts had coined a phrase...
View ArticleOn Ninetieth Anniversary of Mahad Satyagraha
Remembering Mahad“Can Water Catch Fire?”The question may surprise anyone in her/his senses. Yet any person who keeps an open eye for social and political movements would know that when masses forge...
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Bhima-Koregaon: History with Many Dimensions and Ramifications
Despite a long-standing tradition for annually commemorating the victory of the Koregaon battle fought on the banks of river Bhima in district Pune of Maharashtra on January 1, the event became...
View ArticleFact-finding Report on the Rashtra Seva Dal's Inquiry into Bhima-Koregaon Riots
The following is the fact-finding report on Rashtra Seva Dal's inquiry into the Bhima-Koregaon riots conducted by the Rashtra Seva Dal. The inquriy team was headed by Dr Suresh Khairnar, the President...
View ArticleMother India Beckons Us All
From N.C.'s WritingsAfter forty years of the foundation of our independent republic, the Frankenstein has appeared again—the monster that is out to destroy democracy and plunge this nation into civil...
View ArticleNetaji on India after Independence
On the occasion of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's 121st birth anniversary on January 23 this year, we offer our homage to the memory of that indomitable freedom fighter by reproducing excerpts from one...
View ArticleThe most beautiful ocean
The most beautiful ocean is the one we have not yet seen,The most beautiful child has not yet grown up.Our most beautiful days are those we have not yet livedAnd the most beautiful things I would like...
View ArticleA Pilgrim in Quest of Truth
January 30 this year marks the seventieth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi's assassination. On this occasion we remember the Father of the Nation by reproducing excerpts from a piece that Jawaharlal Nehru...
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Ominous Forebodings
EditorialToday is January 23, the 121st birth anniversary of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, one of the stalwarts of our freedom struggle whose Azad Hind Fauj, which symbolised Hindu-Muslim unity, played a...
View ArticleAre NDA-II Government's Budgets Farmer-focused and Rural-centric ?
by D. M. DiwakarA Budget for a government is a tool of resource generation for public expenditure and reflection of an indicative direction for fiscal and development policies. During the last four...
View ArticleChina: Close to Superpowerdom, but . . .
IMPRESSIONSConfidence, authoritativeness and clear warning signals echoed from China's published statements on the Maldives crisis. Keep off, it tells the UN. Any military intervention will be strongly...
View ArticleIndia's Income Inequality Woes are Compounded by its Black Economy
True income disparity cannot be captured by the World Inequality Report because the impact of the black economy is not taken into account.The World Inequality Report (WIR) released last week shows that...
View ArticleTemples, Politics and Leaders: From Jawaharlal Nehru to Rahul Gandhi
by Ram PuniyaniWhat should be the attitude of the leaders' visits to places of worship? The matter is very complex in a society like that of India where the hold of religion on the society has been...
View ArticleRevival of Religious Fundamentalism: Secularism under Threat ?
by Monaem SarkerContemporary global phenomenon has engulfed many corners of the globe resulting in a state of uncertainty for the innocent masses who are victims of extremist violence and radical...
View ArticlePutin prefers Aramco to Trump's sword dance
Hardly Ten Months after Honouring the Visiting US President, the Saudis are open to a Russian-Chinese Consortium Investing in the upcoming Aramco IPOIn the slideshow that is Middle Eastern politics,...
View ArticleBeyond the Delhi Declaration: China, India and the competition for ASEAN
by Bhartendu Kumar SinghWhen India welcomed the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) heads for this year's Republic Day parade, it also sought to re-invent the Look East Policy (LEP)...
View ArticleUP CM, Communal Riots, Fate of Kasganj DM
MUSINGSWhen Yogi Adityanath was appointed the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, I'd commented it would drag along disasters to such an extent that even the basic level of survival would get impossible....
View ArticleScams in the Banking Industry
by Y.P. SinghIt is well known that the banking system in India is deposit-oriented in contrast to the capital-driven banking system in the developed world. More than 80 per cent of the deposits in the...
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