Bhagat Singh as I knew Him | Ajoy Ghosh
On the occasion of the eightyeighth anniversary of Bhagat Singh's martyrdom on March 23 this year, we are reproducing the following article (published last year in Mainstream) in homage to the...
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Poll Campaign, Parrikar, Christchurch Carnage
With the campaign for the 17th Lok Sabha polls in full swing, the parties in the electoral fray, primarily the BJP and Congress, are trading charges against each other with gusto.In the midst of this...
View ArticleThe Future of Dissent in the Anthropocene
by Upendra BaxiThe following is the text of the Second Rabi Ray Memorial Lecture. Professor Upendra Baxi was to have delivered the lecture but due to his indisposition which prevented him from...
View ArticleScholar Accessible: Rabindra Ray (1948-2019)
TRIBUTEby Swatahsiddha SarkarLeast did I expect the person who kept on grilling me around a single point during my Ph.D entrance interview at the Delhi School of Economics (D'School hereafter) to...
View ArticleGulnara Karimova: From Tashkent Presidential Palace to Uzbek Prison
by R.G. GidadhubliOn March 9, 2019 the Uzbek judiciary announced punishment of imprisonment to Gulnara Karimova, elder daughter of late Islam Karimov, former President of Uzbekistan, for five years...
View ArticleGrave Economic Crisis in Pakistan — Some Thoughts to Share
by Gouri Sankar Nag and Arpan BhattacharyaGoing by the recent socio-economic indicators, many scholars are now of the view that Pakistan, unless it mends its ways urgently, would soon be gripped by...
View ArticleBefore terrorists, India has no friends; we are alone
IMPRESSIONSPrime Minister Modi had and will continue to have, the backing of all of India in his stand against the terrorists who “made a big mistake” in attacking the jawans in Pulwama. The attack...
View ArticlePrime Ministerial Candidate in a Parliamentary Democracy
by Deeksha Gupta and Anubhav BijalwanThe practise of declaring the prime ministerial candidate by the political parties before the parliamentary elections is on the rise. The ruling party had declared...
View ArticleWhat is Fundamentalism?
From N.C.'s WritingsFundamentalism has become a much-used term today—in politics and in the academia. And there are in vogue various types of the so-called fundamentalists—political, religious and...
View ArticleRhetoric and Reality: How Development Issues will play out in Election Season
While there is always the possibility of communal or jingoistic issues flaring up at the time of the election season in India, there is no doubt that development issues will also be an important...
View ArticleThe Pulwama Attack and its Fallout
by Mahi Pal SinghThe terrorist attack on a CRPF convoy at Pulwama in Jammu and Kashmir on February 14, in which forty personnel of the para-military force were killed, was a brutal, barbarous and...
View ArticleIt's the bureaucracy, stupid
THE UTTERLY CRASS AND VULGAR SENSE OF BUREAUCRATIC HUMOUR IN WHAT WAS ONCE BEHIND THE IRON CURTAINby Somdeb LahiriOn June 25, 2008 I boarded a flight from Delhi to attend the Second International...
View ArticleInterpreting FRA to Uphold Justice
by Suranjita RayOn February 28, 2019, in response to a review petition filed by the governments both at the Centre and in Gujarat, the Supreme Court stayed its controversial order of February 13, 2019—...
View ArticleIndian Republic @ 70: Democracy at Crossroads
by Nayakara VeereshaThe decline in global peace has largely been driven by changes in measures related to safety and security. (Global Peace Index, 2014) The Fragile States Index 2018 indicated that...
View ArticleWhy Christchurch Attack is a Wake-up Call
by Zulafqar AhmedPolitics around the world has been changing dramatically. The extreme Right has risen to power throughout the globe from Donald Trump of the US (2016) to Rodrigo Duterte of the...
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Scientists' Major Feat in Space Odyssey
EDITORIALYesterday's development is a major achievement for which fulsome praise must legitimately go to our scientists, especially those in the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)....
View ArticlePopulism and the Future of Democracy in India
BOOK REVIEWby Muzamil YaqoobIndia After Modi Populism and the Right by Ajay Gudavarthy; Delhi: Bloomsbury India; 2019; pages: xxx+236; Rs 599.“Even nationalism demands a dialogue, Love for the nation...
View ArticleKashmir: Setting the Priorities
From N.C.'s WritingsIn 1967, that is, more than fifty years ago, N.C. visited the Kashmir Valley for a few days and held detailed discussions with a wide cross-section of opinion-makers and political...
View ArticleBangsamoro Referendum: A Lesson for Solving the Kashmir Problem
by Anwar Ali TsarpaOn February 14 a horrific suicide attack in Pulwama, Kashmir on security personnel killed 40 CRPF jawans. The terror attack, conducted by a local Kashmiri militant, Adil Dar,...
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Gender Discrimination and Violence against Women: Connecting the Dots of...
WOMEN'S WORLDby Bijayalaxmi Nanda, Nupur Ray, Ritwika Mukherjee, Richa JairajThe following study is a part of an ongoing research project, “Declining Child Sex Ratio and Violence against Women:...
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