Alienation of Rights to Forest
by Suranjita RayThousands of farmers led by the CPI-M-affiliated Akhil Bharatiya Kisan Sabha, marched from Nasik to Mumbai in March this year. One of the many demands of the farmers who came together...
View ArticleJ & K and its People are an Integral Part of India
by K. NarayanaThe Jammu and Kashmir State is under fire since its formation. Above all, it is a sensitive region and geographically strategic place too. Any incident in Jammu and Kashmir will have its...
View ArticleRehashing the ‘Divide and Rule'
by M.A. SofiThe country called India is going through a great churn right now but alas, not for all the good reasons. The reference is surely to the British ploy of ‘divide and rule' in its new avatar...
View ArticleWhen the Best among us Falter
IMPRESSIONSArun Jaitley and Piyush Goyal are the two most qualified—shall we say civilised—men in the Narendra Modi Cabinet. Both have distinguished educational backgrounds and are recognised as...
View ArticleKillings of Our Times!
MUSINGSI'm left aghast at the killings taking place in developed India! If one were to focus on the state of affairs in the State of Uttar Pradesh, it is the State Police that has been indulging in...
View ArticleDrift in India-US Relations
An autocrat can really unhinge a democratic system. This is what President Donald Trump is doing. But he is also turning the US into an imperialist power. India has had a good understanding with...
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Face of the Danger and Our Task
EDITORIALAmong several major developments in the domestic scene of late the one that has caught national attention and caused widespread distress is the most reprehensible act of Union Minister of...
View ArticleRSS in Education, Rampant Bullying in Schools
MUSINGSThe RSS' intrusion into the education sphere is writ large. The RSS-affiliated Shiksha Sanskriti Utthan Nyas, headed by Dina Nath Batra, had sent a list of recommendations to the National...
View ArticleResponsive Coalition Government vis-à-vis Authoritarian Majoritarian Government
by Vijay KumarAs the 2019 general election draws near, and in the wake of the recent setbacks to the BJP in by-polls across the country and it being outsmarted by the Congress in forming the government...
View ArticleOn “Constitutional Renaissance” and Subversion of the Constitution
The eminent scholar of jurisprudence, Upendra Baxi, has explored the idea of “constitutional renaissance” in the context of the recent deliberations of a Supreme Court Bench headed by the Chief Justice...
View ArticleObserve 50th Year of Bank Nationalisation: July 19, 1969-July 19, 2018
by C.H. VenkatachalamJuly 19, 2018 marks the 50th year of bank nationalisation. Fourtynine years ago, in the year 1969, it was on this historic date of July 19, the Union Government brought the...
View ArticleLooking back on August 1942 - Aruna Asaf Ali Interview / N.C.'s tribute
July 16 this year marked the 109th birth anniversary of Aruna Asaf Ali, the legendary heroine of the 1942 ‘Quit India' struggle, the last battle for India's independence. Here we reproduce the...
View ArticleArt of Reducing Constitutional Democracy to a Joke
ALL THIS AND MUCH MORE IS TO BE LOCATED IN A SINGULAR OBSESSION WITH ELECTORAL POLITICSby M.A. SofiLooking at what has been a long trail of unedifying events having hogged the headlines over the past...
View ArticleSpy Talks between Chiefs of RAW and ISI leave Room for Speculation
BOOK REVIEWby K.S. SubramanianSpy Chronicles: RAW, ISI and the Illusion of Peace by A.S. Dulat, Asad Durrani and Aditya Sinha; Harper Collins Publications India; 2018; Price: Rs 799; pp. 319.This book...
View ArticleNeither Anarchy nor Absolutism — Let Us Have Democracy
Two recent Supreme Court pronouncements restore with sentient purpose the principles of lawful, representative, democratic governance.Two recent life-giving judgements of the truly honourable Supreme...
View ArticleIs the Modi Raj of Today any Better or Worse than Mrs Gandhi's 1975-77...
Today, June 25, 2018 is the 43rd anniversary of the Internal Emergency which PM Indira Gandhi declared in 1975. That declaration of Emergency by her was fully in accordance with the provisions of our...
View ArticleHindi Journalism Loses Two Stalwarts
COMMUNICATIONIn June Hindi journalism lost two stalwarts who were committed to justice, equality and communal harmony.Rajkishore was widely known as one of the senior most columnists in Hindi who wrote...
View ArticleThe Crisis in Jammu and Kashmir: Who reset the clock to 1993?
by Mustafa KhanWhat blunder has brought such a crisis in J&K that many perceive that India is killing its own people rather than the terrorists or the armed militants fighting the Army? The long...
View ArticleModi's Kashmir Policy has brought Disrepute to India
by Tapan BoseThe cynical break-up of the PDP-BJP coalition government in Jammu and Kashmir by the BJP without any prior notice is a clear evidence of its plans to continue with the policy of “no...
View ArticleWhy ISRO ‘Spy Case' Is Important
IMPRESSIONSIndia's biggest achievement since independence is its march to leadership ranks in space technology. In June last year the national space organisation ISRO put into space a rocket as heavy...
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