Climate Refugees and Human Rights: Caught in the Tide of Time
by Shubhra Seth and Govind SinghIntroductionThe feeling of returning home gives a sense of settlement and belongingness to many people. But how does one feel when the home does not give a sense of...
View ArticleImran thanks Modi, and eyes Joint Nobel Peace Prize
by L.K. SHARMAThe following piece appeared in Open Democracy in October 2018. It is being reproduced, with due acknowledgement, as its contents have become highly topical at present.“India led by you...
View ArticleInternational Scholars Decry Attack on Freedom of Speech in India
International scholars, including Noam Chomsky, James Petras, Angela Davis, Fredric Jameson, Bruno Latour, Ilan Pappe, Judith Butler amongst others, have signed a statement castigating the Modi-led...
View ArticlePollution Threatens Villages, Saryu River
COMMUNICATIONSeveral villages in the Kesarganj block of Bahraich district (Uttar Pradesh) and nearby areas are seriously threatened by effluents released in a nullah by a sugar factory. Villagers said...
View ArticleEighth March this year on a Different Note
Eighth March is a day for women across the world—not merely a day for celebration as is generally considered in the corporate sector, but a day to express solidarity with all the toiling and grassroots...
View ArticleLynched by Goons, Again
MUSINGSIf the warlords are over with the war-cries, blatantly whipping up sentiments to further their dangerous political ploys, then it's about time they look at the rising numbers of those getting...
View ArticleVande Mataram
When I was shaped into wordswith ink on paper,my creator though had a colour,a religion by birth,I had neither.I spread far and wide,catching the eyes,entering the heartsof countless masses,resounding...
View ArticleDefence and Personality Cult
From N.C.'s WritingsIn the wake of the possibility of another Indo-Pak war breaking out shortly and the rise in jingoistic outbursts in the electronic media in particular, it is instructive to note...
View ArticleSeminar on Madness
Madness is a topic much discussedFrom ancient times to ours;Now a crime, now disease,Now an affliction of lovers.Sane men keep safe distanceFrom unaccounted laughter,Wishing to know what it isThat the...
View ArticleWar is No Solution: It only Causes Loss of Near and Dear Ones
by Purusottam BhattacharyaThe terror attack carried out by the Pakistani outfit, Jaish-e-Mohammed, on the CRPF convoy on the Jammu-Srinagar highway at Pulwama in south Kashmir on February 14 is...
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Democracy in Danger
EDITORIALAs we go to press news has come of a terror strike in Jammu. An explosive plannted under a bus in a crowded bus terminal in the city led to injury to 30 persons following the explosion in the...
View ArticleLet's Not Seek Vengeance
Oh, forty-plus martyred soldiers, I know notAny of you, even if you are my fellow citizens.To tell you the truth, I hate soldiers,As I hate wars for which soldiers are meant.I hate patriotism that...
View ArticleIn My Own Voice: Kashmiriyat
This article, carried in www.newsclick.in some days ago, is being reproduced here, with due acknowledgement, for the benefit of our readers.‘Mere samne waali khidki mein Ek chand ka tukra rehta hai;...
View ArticleAnatomy of Governance in Kashmir over the Years
BOOK REVIEWby Muzamil YaqoobWhat Happened to Governance in Kashmir? by Aijaz Ashraf Wani; Oxford University Press; 2019; pp. 387; Rs 995.“Breakdown occurs when a civilisation fails to respond...
View ArticleSubhas Mukhopadhyay: A Heretical Bengali Intellectual
Poet Subhas Mukhopadhyay's birth centenary was recently observed in February 2019. An article on him appeared in Mainstream (March 2, 2019). This is another article on the poet. It was sent to us quite...
View ArticleLeaves from the Jungle and Anthropological Jigsaw
IntroductionThe anthropological method did not exist the way we know today almost a century back. It was established through prolonged field data collection, as was established by Malinowski in the...
View ArticleTen Per Cent Quota: The Megalomania of Savarna Reservation
by Navneet Sharma and Anamica“The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong...
View ArticleThe Anatomy of Capital Punishment in India
by Saumitra MohanPrison administration is an inalienable part of our justice delivery system which, many feel, calls for urgent relook and attention. The prison administration in India has existed...
View ArticleState Murderers of Jamal Khashogi and their Cohorts Must Not Get Away
by Gautam SenJamal Ahmed Khashoggi, a journalist of the Washington Post newspaper of the USA, was brutally and in a unique diabolical manner, put to death on October 2, 2018 when he went to obtain...
View ArticleIn the death of Namvar Singh, not only Hindi but the world of all Indian...
TRIBUTEby ApoorvAnandA critic is never the central figure in literature but Namvar Singh remained the first citizen of the world of Hindi, in all its aspects for more than sixty years. It amazes one to...
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