Comprehending Kashmir and its People
by Noor ZaheerWhy is Kashmir burning? How long has it been burning? Who or what ignited the fire? Who is pouring oil on it? And, most importantly, who, if anyone, has tried to control or put out that...
View ArticleMapping Rape Protests through Feminist Imaginations of Justice: Mahasweta...
WOMEN'S WORLDby Piya SrinivasanIndia's “disturbed areas” have always had a contentious relationship with the state. Women's bodies often become the surface on which violent practices of nation-making...
View ArticleInsightful Exposure of the Four Years of Modi Regime
BOOK REVIEWDismantling India: A Four Year Report edited by John Dayal, Leena Dabiru, Shabnam Hashmi; Media House, Delhi; 2018; pages 355; Price: Rs 600.A recently published 355-page book titled...
View ArticleIS Takes Over Sahara
After being almost ousted from Syria and Iraq, the terrorist organisation, Islamic State (IS), has firmly established itself over a large part of Africa, in two broad belts on either side of the...
View ArticleHelsinki Summit's positive fallouts on Syria
In the debris of the Trump-Putin summit at Helsinki on July 16, the understanding reached on the Syrian conflict stands out as a positive outcome. The steady improvement in the politico-military...
View ArticleBurying Karunanidhi
Bury him where you willMasters of the day,You cannot ever buryHis work, his legacy,He took no help from godFor his mission among the legionOf the oppressed; his godless humanismWas more spiritual than...
View ArticleNarratives of Fake News, Lynchings and Mobocracy in India
by Abid Ahmad ShahIndia is a country of people belonging to varied regions, religions, sects, communities, castes; etc. From the past times till date, the multiculturalism and plural ethos of this...
View ArticleSwachh Panchayat, Swachh Bharat: A Testimony of Twentyfive Years of...
The year 2018 is being celebrated as the twentyfifth year of decentralisation at the grass-roots level all over India.The 73rd Constitution Amendment Act 1993 was enacted with a vision of achieving...
View ArticleActivist who brought Hope to Bundelkhand Villages is No More
COMMUNICATIONBhagwat Prasad, a leading social activist of Bundelkhand region, breathed his last on August 8. As director of a major voluntary organisation of this region, named Akhil Bharatiya Samaj...
View ArticleThe Bangladeshi Problem in Assam: A Historical Background
The publication of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam on July 30 has once again raised the question: who is an Assamese in Assam? Four million permanent residents of Assam have been...
View ArticleSubverting Democracy without Vote-rigging
by L.K. SharmaRecent events in some prominent democratic nations have highlighted the internal threats that are hard to see and even harder to counter. A military dictator can be identified.Democracy...
View ArticleOn Independence Day
by Eduardo FaleiroOn August 15, we celebrate the Independence Day. On that day, in 1947, India became a free and democratic country. The British ruled India for around two hundred years. Though they...
View ArticleIndia - Pakistan: Seventyone Years On, Frosty Relations Continue
It was August 12, 1947, three days before India became free. My father, a practising doctor, summoned us, three brothers and asked what our programme was. I told him that I wanted to stay in Pakistan...
View ArticleAnguish, not Anger / Gandhi's Lonely Furrow
From N.C.'s WritingsAnguish, not AngerThe countdown for a national crisis of fearsome dimension has begun. The build-up of a nationwide communal conflict could be discerned, as one finds that the...
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The Coming Struggle
EditorialIn four days' time, on August 15, 2018, we will be celebrating our seventysecond Independence Day. And within less than a year the country will be holding its next general elections to elect...
View ArticleHighways, Accidents, Landslides
COMMUNICATIONThe four-lane expansion of Parwanoo-Solan highway was supposed to curb traffic jams, reduce travel time and improve safety but it is time to ask whether the reverse of what was supposed to...
View ArticleTranscending Spaces: Searching for a New Political Philosophy
by Murzban JalTo write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric. (Nach Auschwitz ein Gedicht zu schreiben, ist barbarisch).Theodor Adorno, PrismsThe Greeks might seem to have confirmed the death of the sage...
View ArticleRafale: Mid-Air Magic
How can Rafale be a scam,Unless Arvind Rai says so first?And public money in private handsIs always in the national interest.That was a time of paralysis,Now decisions are made mid-air;When gratis...
View ArticleCaspian Sea: Long-awaited Agreement Reached
by R.G. GidadhubliOn August 12, 2018 a meeting was held in the Central Asia's port city of Aqtau in Kazakhstan when all the five states of the Caspian signed a new convention on its (Cospian's) legal...
View ArticleOf NC, Farooq Abdullah and the Politics of Appropriation
by Mohammad Ashraf KhwajaDuring the heydays of European colonialism, ‘the beautiful valley of Kashmir inhabited by ugly Kashmiris' was the standard signature of a European travel narrative about...
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