The Identity Question of the Assamese Muslims
by Swabana MamtazThis article was sent to us quite sometime ago but could not be used earlier due to unavoidable reasons.I. IntroductionWhile the Muslims all over the world have a common religious...
View ArticleWhy Karunanidhi Was Important
IMPRESSIONSWith M. Karunanidhi's death, a chapter turns in history. That is rare because most political leaders constitute mere footnotes in history, let alone a page. Karunanidhi was more a cultural...
View ArticleOf Article 35-A and Looming Crisis in Kashmir
by Abid Ahmad ShahIndia is the confluence of 29 States and seven Union Territories, with a distinct demography, language, culture, lifestyle, etc. Jammu and Kashmir forms a part of the northern portion...
View ArticleThe Norman Dixon Syndrome
The matter of 400 serving soldiers (the term “soldier” includes JCOs and officers of whatever rank) recently going to Court with a Petition, following 356 serving soldiers who beat them to the Supreme...
View ArticleA State that Fears the Constitution
Look as far back as you will, all the way to the Garden of Eden, and you will find that the chief source of the power of ruling establish-ments has been the generation and possession of knowledge.Thus...
View ArticleFlood Fury in Kerala and UP, Recalling the Kashmir Floods of 2014
MUSINGSThere is something or everything so very bizarre and frightfully horrific about last week's arrest and detention of the country's well-known activists and academics who have been raising their...
View ArticleInsanity Enthroned
From N.C.'s WritingsAfter forty years of the foundation of our independent republic, the Frankenstein has appeared again—the monster that is out to destroy democracy and plunge this nation into civil...
View ArticleModi in Trouble
Indians are generally shy of statistics. No election is won or lost on the basis of figures. But, figures are crowding into the otherwise personalities-based discourse as the country prepares for...
View ArticleHas Narendra Modi Lost His Way?
There are now unmistakable signals from the top echelons of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) that a section of the organisation is not happy with the way Narendra Modi is going about his...
View Article“Present State of Health” of Our Democracy
The recent arrests of some noted civil/human rights activists have raised fundamental questions about the present state of our democracy. In the wake of the arrests, the eminent professor of political...
View ArticleThe Approaching Elections
Every year around June 26, on the anniversary of the Emergency imposed in 1975, the present government attempts to highlight the supposed wrongdoings committed at that time. However, the government's...
View ArticleThose in Authority Want to Arrest the Growing Consciousness about Human Rights
PROTESTS IN NEW DELHI AGAINST THE ARRESTS OF ACTIVISTS BY PUNE POLICEThe arrest of five human rights activists on August 28 and the strong condemnation this has invited from a wide spectrum of people...
View ArticleChaos in the White House
by Monaem SarkerPresident Donald Trump's 20 months in office have aged many Americans at least by a multiple of that length of time.This week two events provided glimpses of White House staffers in...
View ArticleTalking Equality To a Conservative Majoritarian Society
by Harsh KapoorIn four separate and combined judgments on September 6, 2018, in the Navtej Singh Johar case a Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court of India ruled that Section 377 of the Indian Penal...
View ArticleAmit Shah's Antics Compound BJP's Woes
EDITORIALRegardless of whatever the country's major newspapers are seeking to project, the Bharat Bandh call of all the major Opposition parties led by the Congress on September 10 evoked considerable...
View ArticleRemembering Shankar Guha Niyogi on his Death Anniversary
Shankar Guha Niyogi was assassinated on September 28, 1991 when he was just 48, but even at this young age he had become a legendary figure. While he was adored as brother and son by the iron ore...
View ArticleStudentship, Politics and Youth Culture
As a teacher, I keep engaging with the young minds; and I do believe that higher education is not merely for acquiring the cognitive and technical skills for fetching lucrative jobs; it ought to...
View Article‘Bhai' Imran to boost BJP's 2019 Prospects?
By accident or out of sheer ennui, I indulged in a rare act last evening (September 20)—channel surfing. And I ended up in the improbable situation of watching our Delhi-based ‘news channels' and...
View ArticleChemical Weapons Convention
Bangladesh categorically objects to the decision made at the fourth special session of the Conference of the States Parties (CSP) to the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC). I want to congratulate the...
View ArticleTactics of Beheading Soldiers: When Will this Gory Chapter End?
by Gautam SenAfter a recent border flare-up and cross-border firings, during a joint Pakistani Rangers-Border Security Force (BSF) patrol on the international border in the Jammu region of Jammu and...
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