A Shot in the Dark
The Pakistan Supreme Court's verdict to debar former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif from holding any public office for life is too harsh punishment and mired in controversy. The court can hold him guilty,...
View ArticleAsifa's Just Killers!
by Prem SinghThe cry seeking justice for Asifa is becoming stronger and deeper. From Delhi to the United Nations, from social and civil rights organisations to civil society citizens, more and more...
View ArticleBrazen demons: your time is up
What kind of land has this becomewhere little girls can no longer walk and playsafe and free from rapists?In the mind's eye of the peoplethe spokes of the Blue Chakra have come asunderreplaced by the...
View ArticleIndian Communists in Summit
From N.C.'s WritingsThe talk of polarisation has become very fashionable nowadays. Even Sri S.K. Patil has been talking about it—and many others have been toying with it or dreading its consequences....
View ArticleSurendra Nihal Singh (1929-2018)
TRIBUTESurendra Nihal Singh, who would have turned 89 on April 30, passed away in a New Delhi hospital on Monday, April 16, 2018 due to kidney-related ailments.Nihal Sigh was, apart from editing two...
View ArticleJustice Rajindar Sachar (1923-2018): Our Finest Has Gone
TRIBUTEby Qurban AliVeteran Socialist leader, noted jurist and champion of human rights Justice (retired) Rajindar Sachar passed away in Delhi on April 20, 2018. He was 94. A distinguished advocate for...
View ArticleThe Queen rules the Commonwealth!
by L.K. SharmaIt was a grand family reunion. The head of the family opened her magnificent home for the members coming from all over the world. She won them over by a charming smile and the display of...
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Rationality Wins Over Left Sectarianism
POLITICAL NOTEBOOKRationality has emerged victorious over irrational (and infantile) dogmatism and Left sectarianism at the just-concluded 22nd Congress of the CPI-M. The preposterous idea that an...
View ArticleTagore for Today
On the occasion of Rabindranath Tagore‘s 157th birth anniversary on May 9, 2018, we are carrying excerpts from Tagore's writings and speeches that are relevant in today's context.Today, more than ever...
View ArticleFriend or Enemy of Dalits?
Dr Ambedkar Mahasabha honoured the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath with Dalit Mitra or Friend of the Dalit award on the birth anniversary of Dr B.R. Ambedkar, April 14, 2018 in...
View ArticleCameos
From N.C.'s WritingsGurudev Rabindranath Tagore's 157th birth anniversary was observed last Wednesday (May 9, 2018). On this occasion we are reproducing a piece by N.C. on Tagore written 77 years ago,...
View ArticleIndian Judiciary since 1993: Independent but Unchecked and Unbalanced
by Kunal GhoshOur Constitution-makers decided to follow the western model of parliamentary democracy in which there are three main organs of the state, the executive (that is, the government run by a...
View ArticleLoss of a Sane Voice in Troubled Times
TRIBUTEby Sanjay ParikhIt is often difficult to write about a person with whom you were close for several decades. So many thoughts come to your mind, some are chronological, bound by time and events,...
View ArticleKarl Marx's Scientific Discovery
The following article is being published on the occasion of Marx's bicentenary of birth that fell on May 5, 2018.by Murzban JalIn the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not...
View ArticleIndia-China Relations on the Mend
India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, proudly supported Chinese Prime Minister Chou En-lai. He had emerged after defeating the First Front Army commander, Chiang Kai Shek. The Chinese Premier...
View ArticleWhat Is My Philosophy?
by Kancha Ilaiah ShepherdAfter I wrote ‘Why I am Not a Hindu' and ‘Post-Hindu India' the Brahmin-Banias (the castes that control the Hindu spiritual system and the whole business system of India) of...
View ArticleThe Congress of Hope and Unity
by Binoy ViswamMembers, sympathisers and friends of the CPI would consider the 23rd Congress of the party as a milestone in its history. But, the relevance of the Congress does not end there. It...
View ArticleParty Congress and After
The following are reflections of a veteran CPI-M sympathiser after the party's 22nd Congress at Hyderabad.In an article titled “Two Faces” (The Telegraph, March 27), this writer had speculated on the...
View ArticlePIPFPD's Homage to Dr Ashok Mitra
Co-Chairpersons of Pakistan-India Peoples' Forum for Peace and Democracy (India Chapter) Dr Syeda Hameed and Tapan K. Bose and General Secretary of PIPFPD (India Chapter) Vijayan M.J. have issued the...
View ArticleGoodbye Bhai: The struggle will continue
TRIBUTEby Prem SinghHis full name was Bhalchandra Bhai Vaidya but people used to call him Bhai Vaidya. I always addressed him as ‘Bhai'. In our village, it was an accepted norm to call a father 'Bhai'...
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