Opposition Parties should be Committed to Re-establishment of Planning...
COMMUNICATIONWith the passage of time the serious vacuum left behind by the sudden and arbitrary dismantling of the Planning Commission is being felt more and more. The Niti Aayog was neither meant to...
View ArticleNon-Congressism to Anti-BJPism: India's Political Imperative
by Vijay PratapLohia's Non-CongressismNon-Congressism was born out of the imagination of a political leader who died on October 12, 1967 at the age of fiftyseven, when his dreams were still alive. Dr...
View ArticleI Dance and Sing
I dance and singThey think they've done no injury to meI laugh and rejoiceThey think they've been kind to meI eat and feastThe think they didn't snatch away my foodI speak and discussThey think they...
View ArticleWhy in the Name of God?
I'm not sure I know much about you.But they say you exist;that's why the earth moves, life breathes.Some also pronounceyou're long banished, probably dead,a bit of has-been now.A few, however,...
View ArticleSimultaneous Elections
Our country is a federal state with its constituting units, namely, the States having autonomy of governance in the subjects allotted to them by the Constitution. Federalism is also one of the basic...
View ArticleWhere did we go wrong?
I have always wondered where we went wrong. After adopting a constitution which was secular in letter and spirit, we have strayed into the territory where every pebble is an impediment to the journey...
View ArticleTriple Talaaq Bill
by Noor ZaheerThe much hyped Triple Talaaq Bill did not manage to go through the Rajya Sabha and the blame game has done the expected rounds with the Opposition and ruling parties accusing and...
View Article{International Women's Day: Challenge before Indian Women
March Eight, the International Women's Day, reminds us of the struggle of the working women, particularly of the garment workers on the streets of Chicago on March 8, 1908. It also reminds us of the...
View ArticleIntegrated Child Development Scheme in Haryana: Some Observations
by Manju PanwarIntroductionIt is said that the future of tomorrow is in the hands of children. But this is only possible if they are strong enough physically and mentally. They must be given adequate...
View ArticleThe Great Bank Robbery. By All
IMPRESSIONSThe funny thing about the banking fraud that is rocking the country is that no one is accountable for it. The Finance Minister remained silent at first and then blamed the supervisory...
View ArticleCultivating Loss Reaping Suicides: Perils of being a Farmer in the Republic...
by Annapurna and Navneet SharmaPeople eat mango kernel for hobby.—Agriculture Minister, Odisha(seeking) Loan waiver has become fashion these days.—Venkaiah Naidu, former Minister, Vice-President,...
View ArticleTribute: Neelabh Mishra, the Activist Journalist
National Herald's Editor-in-chief Neelabh Mishra, who had been admitted to Apollo Hospital in Chennai in February 2018, was critically ill with complications resulting from non-alcoholic liver...
View ArticleWhen has the Bureaucracy treated People with Respect?
There is pressure from the government officials in Delhi that Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal should apologise for the alleged assault on Chief Secretary Anshu Prakash inside the CM's residence by Aam...
View ArticleNo Conflict between Hindi and Regional State Languages
For some time past a misguided effort is being made to castigate India for asking the General Assembly of the UN to include Hindi as one of the languages at the UN. They seem to suggest that English...
View ArticleLessons from the Tripura Election
Ten years ago, in 2008, I was invited to speak at a colloquium in Rome regarding the war in Afghanistan; this was organised by the think-tank affiliated with the Party of European Socialists, the...
View ArticleJyoti Basu's Bombshell
From N.C.'s WritingsWe are reproducing the following piece by N.C. that appeared in this weekly in January 1997 on an interview to a national daily given by Jyoti Basu, the CPM patriuarch and former...
View ArticleTripura: Time for Left to Reorient
Lenin said, practice is the criterion of truth. Tripura has forcefully underlined the need for a drastic reorientation of the tactics, even strategy, of the Left and the Communists in particular....
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Message from the North-East
POLITICAL NOTEBOOKThe BJP has embarked on a media blitzkrieg that it has swept the North-East in the recent Assembly elections and is closer to its goal of a Congress-mukt Bharat. Do the election...
View ArticleUnfolding a South Asian Perspective on Constitutionalism
BOOK REVIEWby Deepak KumarComparative Constitutionalism in South Asia edited by Khilnani S., Raghavan V. and Thiruvengadam A.K.; Oxford University Press, New Delhi; 2016; (2nd edition); pages: 401;...
View ArticleNirav Modi Heist and Chowkidar Narendra Modi
by Ram PuniyaniCorruption is a big menace in different countries, including ours. We witnessed the spectacle of the movement against corruption demanding Jan Lokpal, at the dharna at Jantar Mantar in...
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