Bhupesh : Some Reminiscences
The 104th birth anniversary of the legendary Communist parliamentarian Bhupesh Gupta fell on October 20, 2018. On this occasion we have reproduced in this issue the tribute to Bhupesh Gupta by N.C....
View ArticleAadhar Judgment: Triumph of Expediency over Principle
by Vijay KumarThe majority judgment in the Aadhar case represents triumph of expediency, whereas the dissenting judgment delivered by Justice Chandrachud is extremely liberating and will go down in...
View ArticleAnd #MeToo: Discourse in Indian News Media
by Santosh Kumar BiswalFollowing the suit of actress Alyssa Milano in response to the Harvey Weinstein scandal in Hollywood, And #MeToo movement has arrived in India. Actress Tanushree Dutta's...
View ArticleBaubles
Souls are freshly baptized in the purse;Lords of Capital allow all thingsBut prying human converse.A pall of brainless samenessSuits Capital best;Watch out for the one who dares to putThe nullity of...
View Article#MeToo in a Country that worships God as Woman
by L.K. SharmaDuring a festival celebrating the Goddess who kills a demon menacing Gods, scores of educated Indian women have unmasked their tormentors and sparked a mini-revolution.It has led to...
View ArticleConquering Hunger: The Battle for Right to Food in India
by Annapurna and Navneet SharmaThere are so many hungry people. To them God has no other shape than bread.—Mahatma GandhiIndia has recently crossed France to claim the sixth spot of being the largest...
View ArticleNeed for Reconciliation with Justice: Babri Demolition and aftermath
by Ram PuniyaniIn a recent judgment, the Supreme Court by a 2-1 majority verdict refused to refer the Dr Faruqui verdict to the Constitution Bench. This verdict had stated that the mosque was not an...
View ArticleKerala's Stabbed Modernity
by V. BijukumarThe ‘public' outrage in favour of protecting tradition after the historic verdict of the Supreme Court on September 28 allowing women of all age-groups into the Sabarimala temple in...
View ArticleRe-Reading Michel Foucault: Present as History
by Arup Kumar SenThe heretical French thinker Michel Foucault transformed our understanding of modern regimes of power. To put it in the words of Julian Reid, “For Michel Foucault the problem of war is...
View ArticleA Revolutionary Turn in RSS?
IMPRESSIONSImagine the Pope criticising Jesus Christ. If that is too ecclesiastical, imagine Sitaram Yechury rewriting Karl Marx. Actually we cannot imagine either because the Catholic Church and the...
View ArticleDussehra Message of the RSS Sarsanghchalak}
by Irfan EngineerThe RSS Sarsanghchalak, Shri Mohan Bhagwat, urged the Central Government to bring in a law for construction of the Ram temple at the site where Babri Masjid once stood. Shri Bhagwat...
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Rafale Deal: The Noose Tightens
POLITICAL NOTEBOOKCongress President Rahul Gandhi's press conference in New Delhi today saw his fiercest attack on Narendra Modi on the Rafale deal. Without mincing words Rahul bluntly said CBI...
View ArticlePoetry of Pain, Life and Death
BOOK REVIEWby H.K. DuaMy Soul Flower, a collection of poems by Lavlin Thadani; published by Authors Press; pages: 287.In the 21st century India, we the people, are increasingly becoming dots and...
View ArticleTelangana caretaker CM K. Chandrasekhara Rao
IMPRESSIONSAs Chief Ministers go, K. Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR) is in a class of his own. He is known as an effective speaker and he is a good tactician. These were factors in the success of his mission...
View ArticleNational Security Adviser Sermonises on National Governance
by Gautam SenIndia's National Security Adviser (NSA), Ajit Doval, has given a clarion call for a strong and decisive government for at least ten years, while delivering the latest Sarder Patel Memorial...
View ArticleSacrifice at the Altar of Development
TRIBUTEby Medha Patkar and Sandeep PandeyThe legendary Professor Guru Das Agrawal, who got promoted from a Lecturer directly to Professor at the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur...
View ArticleOn 105th birth anniversary of Nikhil Chakravartty on November 3, 2018 - Some...
Former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao was to have released the book India-Pakistan: Themes Beyond Borders—Selections from Nikhil Chakravartty's Writings (published by Konark Publishers Pvt. Ltd.) at...
View ArticleSelected articles - from Early Recollections to Some Editorials, Commentaries
After N.C.'s demise on June 27, 1998 three pieces were recovered from his notes as evidence that he had started writing his autobiography. Since November 3 this year happens to be his 105th birth...
View ArticleDire Threat to Peace: A New Nuclear Arms Race Has Begun
by Mikhail GorbachevOver 30 years ago, President Ronald Reagan and I signed in Washington the United States-Soviet Treaty on the elimination of intermediate-and shorter-range missiles. For the first...
View ArticleSri Lanka: Let Parliament Express Its Will
by Mohan K. TikkuIt has been a time of great political uncertainty in Sri Lanka since Friday (October 26) when President Mathripala Sirisena announced the appointment of former President Mahinda...
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