Difference between Religious Propagation and Conversion
by Kunal GhoshThe Indian Constitution guarantees freedom of practicing one's faith and propagating it, provided it is done without coercion or inducement. The Archbishop of Delhi (of the Catholic...
View ArticleConsidering Cess on Liquor to Get Funds for Cow-Protection!
COMMENTARYRecent news reports have drawn attention to the most absurd proposal being seriously considered by the Rajasthan Government that a cess will be imposed on liquor sales and this cess will be...
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Intra-Tribal Disparities in Asset-acquisition in Kerala's Wayanad District
by Raimol Pappachan and P. Stanly JosephThe tribal populations are the aboriginal inhabitants of our country and are found in all parts of India. They have been living a simple life based on the...
View ArticleWe Must All Resist BJP's Two-Nation Theory
From N.C.'s WritingsAyodhya has become the epicentre of a cyclone that threatens to spell disaster for the political fabric of this country. For the fourth year now, it has virtually taken over the...
View ArticleIndia, Nepal and the Janakpur Momentum
by Bhartendu Kumar SinghEveryday, buses full of pilgrims and tourists get stranded near Bhitta Mor, the noisy and chaotic gateway to Janakpur on the Indo-Nepal border in Bihar. Bhitta Mor is a dingy...
View ArticleMewat Region, Raj Kishore, Ankit Saxena's Family
MUSINGSThis morning as I was going through the day's newspapers what caught attention was this shocking incident coming from Haryana's Mewat region, where a young woman was buried neck deep, in a five...
View ArticleBhindranwale Still Lives
Indian history is replete with tragedies which, when retold, suggest that the happenings could have been avoided. ‘Operation Bluestar' is one of them. Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, a militant, holed...
View ArticleRussian Leader's Question-Answer Session: Putin Emerging Longest Serving...
by R.G. GidadhubliVladimir Putin was elected as the President of Russia with overwhelming majority for the fourth time for a six-year term ending in 2024. Exactly one month after he was sworn in...
View ArticleWould RSS accept Pranabda's Inclusive Indian Nationalism?
by Ram PuniyaniDialogue is the core part of the democratic process. The question that comes up is: can there be dialogue between two opposite ideologies on the Indian horizon, the one of Indian...
View ArticleLosses that Cannot be Filled
COMMENTARYAs we go to press news has just arrived from Srinagar that noted professional journalist Syed Shujaat Bukhari is no more. He was gunned down near his office (he was earlier the correspondent...
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Welcome Move in Korean Peninsula
EDITORIALHow do we assess the Donald Trump-Kim Jong-un summit talks at Singapore? Regardless of what the cynics have said or written—and there are many such cynics beyond those who have articulated...
View ArticleIn Search of a Better World
COMMUNICATIONAll the great thinkers in history were in search of better worlds in their writings and thinking. The Indian Constitution represents our collective wisdom and suggests pathways for a...
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Union Budget 2018-19: Ambitious, Populist and Unprogressive Budget
by A.V.V.S.K. Rao“From birth to death, our lives are affected in countless ways by the activities of government.”—Noble Laureate Joseph E. StiglitzIntroductionThe backdrop to the Narendra Modi...
View ArticlePranabda Makes a Visit but why Now?
In current parlance, here is my “takeaway” on Pranab Mukherjee's so tantalizing visit to the RSS Headquarters in Nagpur:First, why was he invited? However Mohanji Bhagwat may have underplayed the...
View ArticlePranab Mukherjee at RSS HQ: Images Speak Louder Than Words
by Ram PuniyaniDialogue is a core part of the democratic process. The question thus is: can there be a dialogue between two opposing ideologies, the one of Indian nationalism and the other of Hindu...
View ArticleOpposition Parties joining to defeat BJP lack Alternate Policies
by S.R. DarapuriThe BJP's chain of defeat, which started with the Gorakhpur and Phoolpur in Uttar Pradesh by- elections, has extended to defeats in Kairana and Noorpur. It has broken the invincibility...
View ArticleDoes it Matter?
My tablet and my pen,My two cherished treasuresAre snatched from me,But does it matter?For I have dipped my fingersIn the blood of my heart;My tongue they sealedBut does it mater? For,I have placed a...
View ArticleLest We Forget
Fortythree years ago on June 26, 1975, the Emergency was proclaimed throughout the country as the ruling leadership bared its fangs nakedly displaying its dictatorial proclivities. We present here...
View ArticleThe Unedifying Spectacle of Educated Indians
by M.A. SofiThe BJP juggernaut now sweeping large swathes of India seems unstoppable. Now with twentyone States out of a total of twentynine under its belt, it redounds to the highly effective and...
View ArticleProgress of RSS is Ominous
I find the followers of the secular ideology as fanatic as the others are. There was a furore over the visit of BJP President Amit Shah to my residence a few days ago. Criticism over telephone and...
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