Gandhi 150: “Absorb whatever appears good in my life”
by D.M. DiwakarI. IntroductionThe stage is all set to mark the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi with great fanfare on October 2, 2019. It is a pleasant moment for a proud nation to pay sincere...
View ArticleGandhi for Today
Soldiers drunk with the pride of physical strength loot shops and are not even ashamed to take liberties with women. The administration is powerless in the war time to prevent such happenings. The army...
View ArticleTo Mahatmaji
I know I am one among the forty crores of peopleI have heard the announcement: the auspicious hourOf my life has come and all cowardly thoughtshave melted away,There is festival in my blood, please...
View ArticleRelevance of Gandhiji's Message Today
From N.C.'s WritingsOn October 2 this year India is celebrating the hundred and twentyfifth birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. The Government of India has set up a special committee studded with VIPs...
View ArticleRafale Two
Francois Hollande—he good man,Tells it like it is,Causing among the hypocritesRipples, pop, and fizz.The shard of truth holds its edgeAgainst the battering ramsOf power, pelf, and dissembling,And the...
View ArticleWhy the Moral Element in Mahatma Gandhi's Struggle is Important for Us
by Sharad RajimwaleMahatma Gandhi devoted his entire life waging a relentless fight against segregationist policies and practices and the rule of divisive politics. In a world where politics thrives on...
View ArticleThe Essence of Our Secularism
The following is the speech of former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh at the Second Memorial Lecture in honour of the late CPI General Secratary, A.B. Bardhan, on “Defence of Secularism and...
View ArticleAadhaar Judgment — A First Impression
The September 26, 2018 judgment [”Judg-ment” hereinafter] of the five-judge Bench of the Supreme Court of India (SCI) on the batch of 27 petitions clubbed under “Puttaswamy”, challen-ging the UIDAI's...
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BJP Chief's Diabolical Move
EDITORIALBJP President Amit Shah is at it again. After his most objectionable speech at a party rally in Jaipur on September 11 (wherein he mocked at a prime victim of the Sangh Parivar's lynch-mob,...
View ArticleAadhaar Verdict: Justice Chandrachud's “Landmark Dissent”
by Arup SenThe Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court delivered its Aadhaar verdict on September 26, 2018. Reportedly, while the four judges out of a five-justice Bench broadly upheld the Aadhaar...
View ArticlePeople's Mobilisation on Land Reforms deserves Wide Support
COMMUNICATIONKeeping in view the extremely important role of land reforms for reducing rural poverty and ensuring sustainable food security to the most vulnerable sections, there is clearly a need for...
View ArticleNationalist Discourse: Hundred Years of Sociology in India
One hundred years have passed since the inception of the Department of Sociology in Bombay University. Here Sociology began to be taught and studied for the first time in India at the University level....
View ArticleStatement by Gautam Navlakha
The following is the press statement by human rights activist Gautam Navlakha after being freed of house arrest by the Delhi High Court on October 1, 2018. He was arrested with four other activists on...
View ArticleStatement of Five Petitioners to the Supreme Court on Activists' Arrest
The following is the press statement of five eminent persons on the arrest and subsequent house confinement of five activists.We approached the Supreme Court when five well-known lawyers, journalists...
View ArticleAn Unhealthy Judgement
COMMUNICATIONBy striking down IPC Section 497 as unconstitutional and declaring adultery as no offence recently on September 27, 2018, the Supreme Court will set in a highly undesirable trend in the...
View ArticleMore Problems Ahead
by Hemant Varshney and Bhavesh YadavIntroductionA five-judge Constitution Bench on September 27 decriminalised the 158-year-old law of adultery in Joseph Shine v. Union of India. The impugned law was...
View ArticleCOMCASA and the Historic Fight for Peace
by Archishman Raju and Meghna ChandraThe External Affairs Minister, Sushma Swaraj, and Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman recently concluded two-plus-two talks with US Secretary of State Michael...
View ArticleTime to Breach the Wall
From N.C.'s WritingsThe last few months have witnessed the deterioration of Indo-Pak relations to the point of almost eye-ball-to-eyeball confrontation. Tempers have been stoked high and the fiercest...
View ArticleUnion Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Must Quit: CPI
The National Secretariat of the Communist Party of India issued the following statement on September 21, 2018 demanding resignation of Union Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman.The National Secretariat...
View ArticleAbode Of God
A.K. Das has sent the following poem with a letter from Lucknow that reads: “The Supreme Court has delivered the landmark judgement upholding the right of women of all ages to worship at Sabarimala...
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