Promoting Bad Governance Is Bad
IMPRESSIONSSo it's mixture as before—Shri Arun Jaitleyis wise, ministers of Southern States are dumb. The South objected to the Centre taking the 2011 population figures as the yardstick for the...
View ArticleOli in India: Changing Perceptions
by Sangeeta ThapliyalPerception is an essential component of foreign policy. How a country's government and people perceive the other has a substantial influence in forming its relations with them....
View ArticleHow Gandhi led Niranjan Takle to the Judge Loya Story
At a commemorative meeting in Mumbai the journalist who did the story for Caravan talks about how Loya's family decided that he should be the one to tell their story.by Jyoti PunwaniShortly before...
View ArticleThe Paths of the CPI and the CPI-M are Divergent
by Ajayakumar KodothThe Party Congresses of the CPI and CPI-M are currently taking place in South India. This article is being published in that context.Prime Minister Narendra Modi's speech in...
View ArticleSocial Reform, Muslim Women and RSS-BJP Agenda
by Ram PuniyaniIn a historic judgment the Supreme Court gave the verdict that instantaneous triple talaaq (Talaaq-e-Biddat) is invalid as per the law. (August 22, 2017) Giving this verdict the Court...
View ArticleInstability Intensified
From N.C.'s WritingsThis week marks the completion of six months after the demolition of the Babri Masjid at Ayodhya on December 6. As one looks back on these six troubled months, one has to concede...
View ArticleAsifa, my Child
Asifa, my child, I wishI was not writing about youBut holding you to my chest.Asifa, I wish you were watchingJoyfully as I ripped apartThe hyenas and hung theirEntrails at the temple door,So the gods...
View ArticleIt's Modi's BJP!
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is now all in all in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He has installed his close lieutenant, Amit Shah, as the party President. However, people's memory is short. The...
View ArticleAkbar — a Beacon for Contemporary India
by Ashok CellyAkbar was not only a great king. He was also one of the greatest human beings Indian history has known. What made him great as a king was his awesome daring while he achieved greatness as...
View ArticleParty Congresses of CPI-ML, CPI-M, CPI
COMMENTARYThe Left parties are currently holding or have already held their Party Congresses.The CPI-ML (Liberation)'s 10th Congress at Mansa (Punjab) on March 28, 2018 heard party General Secretary...
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Narendra Modi in London
EDITORIALPM Narendra Modi is now in London to attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM). At a public function there yesterday—an event of the Indian diaspora in the UK called Bharat...
View ArticleFormer Civil Servants' Open Letter to PM
The following is the text of an open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi by forty nine former civil servents.We are a group of retired civil servants who came together last year to express our...
View ArticleThe Controversy
The honourable Chairman of the Rajya Sabha has ab initio rejected the motion for removal of the Chief Justice of India, signed by sixtyfour Members of Parliament.One Member, namely, the reputed Senior...
View ArticleKathua Rape, RSS-Hindutva Operations, Salaams to Sachar Sahib
MUSINGSHow can the BJP-RSS indulge in the unthinkable—that is, defend the rapist beasts involved in the Kathua rape! In fact, the spokespersons of the BJP even tried distracting the viewers' attention...
View ArticleIndia-Bangladesh: What if the BNP returns?
by Aparupa Bhattacherjee and Sourina BejBangladesh is gearing up for its general election in December, this year. With its two main political parties—the BNP and AL (Awami League) led by Begum Khaleda...
View ArticleFarmers' Income
by Samit KarRecently, Narendra Modi reiterated his government's commitment to double the income of the Indian farmers at a national conference held in New Delhi. He stressed on the imperative to...
View ArticleOde to B.R. Ambedkar
A question creeping from within:Babasaheb, what you've come to be?Still a messiah for the downtroddenor just a symbol appropriatedonly for narrow electoral gains?Your statue being built,...
View ArticleChanging Contour of Dalit Politics and New Idioms
by Arun SrivastavaThe RSS might have the magical wand to solve the problems of Hindutva and evolve the mechanism for ushering India into the Hindu Rashtra, but it utterly lacks the vision for uniting...
View ArticleThe Age of Darkness Is Upon Us
IMPRESSIONSWhy should life get so degenerate so often in our country? See the multiplying rape cases, each more brutal than the other. Why should party leaders talk like party leaders and not like...
View ArticleKathua Rape: A Tale of Savagery of the ‘Civilised'
What happened in the Rasana village of Kathua district in Jammu is an unimaginable tale of savagery. An eight-year old girl belonging to the Bakkarwal community, a nomadic Muslim community, was first...
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