Fish Out of Water: Setting of the Currency Crisis in India
by Atanu Sengupta and Sanjoy DeIn TraditionFormal-informal transactions are not new to India. State control in almost all spheres of life alongside parallel existence of the informal sector has been...
View ArticleA Modicum of Truth
I feel honoured that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has taken notice of my criticism. Indeed, he praised me and said: “I respect veteran journalist Kuldip Nayarji, he fought for freedom during the...
View ArticleOn Kashmir
The failure of the democratic experiments in Kashmir has a long history. Kashmir's strongest leader in post-colonial India, Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, was all of a sudden informed by the Superintendent...
View ArticleExposing the Facade of Neo-liberal Politics of the BJP
by Arun SrivastavaOblivious of the changing contour and character of Dalit politics, the RSS and its front organisations continue to pursue their old strategy of insolently denigrating the Dalits. That...
View ArticleSingapore Summit on North Korea's Nuclear Issue
by Sudhakar VaddiSince almost seventy long years, the Korean Peninsula is a ground for a confrontation between the North Korea officially the Demo-cratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and the...
View ArticleTrump Riding High and Set to Roll the Dice for a Summit with Putin
If the Trump White House had let it be known a couple of months ago that it was working with the Kremlin to schedule a summit meeting between the two Presidents, all hell would have broken loose in the...
View ArticleEmergency, Indira Gandhi and RSS
by L.S. HardeniaI do not hold any brief for Indira Gandhi as far as her decision to impose Emergency is concerned. There is no doubt that the Emergency period will be recorded as a black chapter in the...
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SC Upholds People's Will
EDITORIALYesterday's verdict of the country's Apex Court on the ongoing tussle between the Lt Governor of Delhi and Delhi Government is of extraordinary significance. As has been underscored by The...
View ArticleEditors Guild Condemns the FIR against Deputy Editor of Mathrubhumi
The attention of the Editors Guild of India has been drawn to the recent case of the Kollam Police in Kerala registering an FIR against Mr. Venu Balakrishnan, Deputy Editor and Anchor of Mathrubhumi...
View ArticleOn Critical Pedagogy: ‘Teaching' at the Margins
by Murzban Jal and Jyoti BawaneThe materialist doctrine that people are products of circumstances and upbringing, and therefore, changed people are products of other circumstances and changed...
View ArticleOn Goa Statehood Day
On May 30 we celebrated the Goa Statehood Day. Goa was liberated from the colonial rule in December 1961. After liberation a major controversy arose as to whether it should remain a separate territory...
View ArticleWhat Option is there before India and Pakistan other than Friendship and Peace?
The India-Pakistan Friendship and Peace March from Ahmedabad to Nada Bet during June 19 to 29, 2018 concluded successfully even though the Ahmedabad Police detained the marchers for about three hours...
View ArticleHistorical Novel of Fascinating Sweep
BOOK REVIEWby Alok SinhaDangerous Dispatches by Achala Moulik; published in 2016 by National Book Trust, India; pages 379; Price: Rs 410.A gripping historical novel, written by an Indian, and yet...
View ArticleWidespread Misuse of a Photograph
When I used to visit Sushri Krishna Sobti's home, which is near my own, I sometimes took photographs. One photograph of her, taken in 2011, appealed to me and I put it up in my Flickr...
View ArticleModi's Wobbly Foreign Policy
Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself and his government take immense pride in the astounding outreach of his foreign policy, raking up a record of doubtful value of visiting so many countries and...
View ArticleA Creeping Paralysis
From N.C.'s WritingsWhat has happened to this great country where men and women fought with bare hands to shake off the shackles of a mighty imperial power? The decisive weapon in the nation's struggle...
View ArticleStill Marx
by Jayanta Kumar GhosalThe toiling and oppressed people all over the world are observing the bicentenary of Karl Marx, following the prediction of ‘End of History'. As days are passing the struggles...
View ArticleWhy Mommy didn't tell me
Why Mommy didn't tell meThat world is full of predatorsI should let nobody near meEven though I'm still a Bambi Why Daddy didn't teach meWhen I was only sixTo be careful with every gentleman and their...
View ArticleStatement Condemning the Attack on Advocate Sudha Bharadwaj
We, the undersigned, wish to place on record our utter disgust, contempt and outrage at the latest in the series of machinations by Republic TV, working to its brief as a propagandist for the ongoing...
View ArticleDenudation of Forest Cover Repugnant to Government Assertion
by Suparna Sanyal MukherjeeBoscage is a country's natural phenomenon continuing since time immemorial. The areas under forest enrich geographical nomenclature along with eco-balance maintenance and...
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