Modi's War Rhetoric may Boomerang on India
The government should welcome Islamabad's move to ban militant outfits designated by the UN Security Council as a step in the right direction. There is nothing to lose and everything to gain by making...
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BINOY VISWAMWe are passing through a very crucial period in the history of our country. The political battle for which we are gearing up is to determine the destiny of our nation. The formations and...
View ArticleStooping to Conquer: Will it Work?
In his time Jesus of Nazareth was an oppositional figure, hounded by both the priesthood and the Roman overlords. So, when he gathered his choice followers to a Last Supper, at which he washed their...
View ArticleNew Robe
What is so special in the news item: an organ being donated? A flourishing black market offers a choice to know the donor, preserve purity of body and soul!But the headline is eye-catching: a Muslim...
View ArticlePatriotism of Cowardice and Enslaved Mind
by Prem SinghThe modern industrial civilisation has witnessed two World Wars. The researchers of war have yet not been able to estimate the magnitude of casualties/deaths—both military and...
View ArticleNo Time for Politics, Jingoism
IMPRESSIONSIt is good that 12 fighter jets bombarded a terrorist camp in Pakistan with the intention of delivering a blow that would be remembered. More significantly, India crossed the Line of Control...
View ArticlePost-Pulwama Triumphalism Spells Disaster for...
In dealing with the Pulwama attack of February 14, India has exhibited a degree of triumphalism that could spell disaster for the Kashmiri people and for the future of Indian democracy.India saw the...
View ArticleWhat We Defend in Kashmir
From N.C.'s WritingsThe following appeared fiftyfour years ago as the editorial in the Annual Number of Mainstream 1965. This brings out in sharp relief the contrast between what prevailed then and the...
View ArticleLife and Death Struggle for Secular Democrats
EDITORIALWith the Election Commission having announced the schedule of the 2019 parliamentary polls for electing the 17th Lok Sabha, the country is now in the grip of a poll fever. The elections are...
View ArticleSave Democracy, Save the Nation: Defeat BJP-RSS Alliance
Citizens For Democracy and PUCL (Delhi) view with grave concern a recent statement made on March 14 by Sakshi Maharaj, a BJP MP, at Unnao that there is Modi tsunami and after this election of 2019,...
View ArticleTycoon Trump
Mr Trump is a businessman,He does not like to lose;Having lost the House he seesAn enemy holding a noose.Mr Trump is no democrat,He would rather be a king;Like Caesar he thinks democratsRuin...
View ArticleIndia needs Democratic Governance and not Strong Leadership
by Irfan EngineerAfter the air strike by the Indian Air Force in Balakot, Pakistan on February 26, 2019, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) seems to have recalibrated its main campaign issue to a strong...
View ArticleOpen Letter to the Chief Justice of India
Honourable Chief Justice of India,You know more than anyone else in the world that the Indian constitutional polity treats all citizens equally irrespective of their race, creed, religion, language,...
View ArticleGrowth or Well-being In a 21st Century New Order
(This is another article that the well-known Marxist Maoist thinker, Kobad Ghandy, sent to us from the Hazaribagh Central Jail in Jharkhand where he is currently lodged. He completed this article on...
View ArticlePeace Conference in Pakistan calls for De-escalation and Nuclear CBMs
The following is a press release issued on March 9, 2019 by Imtiaz Alam, Secretary-General, South Asia Free Media Association (SAFMA), about a peace conference held in Lahore. Peace activists from...
View ArticleRethinking India - Pakistan Relations
The heretical political thinker of our time, Michel Foucault, explored the correlation of modern politics and war in his writings. The editors of a recent book on Foucault argued that in re-making...
View ArticleStocktaking after the Ordeal
From N.C.'s WritingsThe following is another piece written by N.C. during the 1965 Indo-Pak War. This constituted the author's New Delhi Skyline written soon after the ceasefire on September 23,...
View ArticleElections 2019: India at Crossroads
by Ram PuniyaniElections in a democracy can rightly be called a festival of the masses. They determine the course of the country in times to come. That is generally the case and Indian democracy has...
View ArticleDissecting the Silence: Mahatma Gandhi and Congress on Bhagat Singh's Martyrdom
by Saurav Kumar RaiThere are several ‘myths' pertaining to modern Indian history and India's struggle for independence. While some of these myths were created by the colonial state itself to weaken the...
View ArticleMahatma Gandhi and Bhagat Singh: Concept and Vision of Freedom
by Mansavi PatyarIndia achieved complete emancipation from British rule after a lot of hassle. This struggle for independence was flagged by numerous freedom fighters who not only sacrificed their...
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