Was Emergency in India akin to Hitler's Regime?
by Ram PuniyaniOn the eve of the 43rd anniversary of the Emergency, which was imposed on the country in 1975, the BJP has come out strongly condemning the event, issued a half-page advertisement and...
View ArticleToo Harsh a Judgment?
Pakistan's Supreme Court has sentenced twice popularly elected Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for 10 years in prison. The general remarks about the verdict is that it is too harsh. Nawaz Sharif, who heard...
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SC's Plainspeak and Mob Attack on Agnivesh
EDITORIALOnce again the country's Apex Court has risen to the occasion to unambiguously meet the challenge of mob vigilantism.“Horrendous acts of mobocracy can't be permitted to inundate the law of the...
View ArticleA Hug!
What's there in a hug?It may be desi, bidesi or even chipko.But two hearts come closer,narrowing the distance.The effect may be different:affectionate, startling,embarrassing or artificial. Yet it...
View ArticleWhat Jayant Sinha Should Do
MUSINGSIf the union Minister for Civil Aviation, Jayant Sinha, is genuinely repentant about garlanding the lynching-killing accused in Jharkhand, then he ought to take the first flight to the...
View ArticleChina's Creeping Crypto-Colonialism: Sovereignty of Small Neighbouring...
China's Belt and Road Initiative is ostensibly aimed at helping out lesser developed countries of Asia by building infrastructure and connectivity for them. However, it is associated with certain...
View ArticleIndian Muslims and Congress: Electoral Dilemmas
by Ram PuniyaniWhile Sonia Gandhi at a party meeting lamented that the Congress is being presented as a Muslim party,1 an anti-Hindu party,2 her own party's major Muslim leader, Salman Khursheed,...
View ArticleAdivasis of Jharkhand on War Path to Protect their Identity
by Arun SrivastavaThe BJP Government of Raghuvar Das in Jharkhand has been on the mission to grab tribal land and forests of the State to hand over to the corporate sector. Ever since he entered into...
View ArticleActivists and Academics draw Attention to Disturbing Trends in Jharkhand
It is a measure of the maturity of any democracy that it is able to identify any signs of increasing distress and the resulting discontent among people, particularly vulnerable sections of people, in...
View ArticleCorporate-Government Nexus Grows
The Union Government's proposal of lateral entry of persons from “private sector companies, consultancy firms and international or multinational organisations”, as Joint Secretary (JS) is to...
View ArticleJudicial Activism, Right or Wrong
From N.C.'s WritingsWhen politicians as a community are in a state of siege in the eyes of the public, it is extremely short-sighted on the part of any government to make any move that may appear to...
View ArticleJudiciary: At the Crossroads
by Shachi ChawlaThe third pillar of the government, judiciary, was envisaged to play an important role in the growth and development of the young democracy of India. It was regarded by the framers of...
View ArticleMob Lynching: Let Us Act Now
by Irfan EngineerMob lynching has drastically increased in recent years, particularly since the election of the BJP Government. There has been a fourfold increase in cow-related violent incidents from...
View ArticleWhy does RSS-BJP Not Like these Hindu Monks?
Eightysix-year-old Swami Gyan Swaroop Sanand sat on an indefinite fast in Haridwar on June 22, 2018 to demand making a law on conservation of river Ganga. Nobody came to see him from the Ministry of...
View ArticleMuch Ado about ‘Hindu Pakistan'
IMPRESSIONSThe furore over Shashi Tharoor's remarks over the possibilities of India becoming a “Hindu Pakistan” must have surprised his enemies and his friends in equal measure. It also reminds us, yet...
View ArticleThe Era of ‘Teaching Lessons'
by Prem SinghAlthough the recent attack on social activist Swami Agnivesh is being widely and strongly condemned, there are many people who, citing some earlier incidents involving Swamiji, perceive...
View ArticleDangers to Secularism
I recall after independence, politician and diplomat Syed Shahabuddin articulated the Muslim point of view. He did not ask for separation but suggested a self-rule for Muslims within the country....
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Alwar Lynching, Maratha Stir, Imran Khan
EDITORIALAs was mentioned in these columns last week, the Supreme Court of India's unequivocal condemnation (on July 17) of what it described as “horrendous acts of mobocracy” was followed the very...
View ArticlePranab Mukherjee at RSS Headquarters
COMMUNICATIONOur erstwhile President Pranab Mukherjee visited the RSS headquarters at Nagpur on June 7, 2018. He did so at the invitation of the RSS sarsanghchalak Mohan Bhagwat. Bhagwat had visited...
View ArticleWelcome Addition to the Literature on Sree Narayana Guru
BOOK REVIEWby Kadayam SubramanianSree Narayana Guru: The Perfect Union Buddha and Sankara: A Comprehensive Biography by Asokan Vengassery Krishnan; Konark Publishers Pvt Limited, New Delhi, Seattle;...
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