What would they do to prevent the Enemy?
by Binoy ViswamThese eventful days of hectic electioneering reveal the real character and content of Indian politics of the present and future. In the ultimate analysis, this war between various...
View ArticleA Weird Election Campaign!
by L.K. SharmaWhat are the current elections about? About an “endangered” majority, misdeeds of the “anti-nationals” colluding with a minority, Pakistan being threatened with a nuclear war, a Congress...
View ArticleCameos / Marx and Marxism
From N.C.'s WritingsGurudev Rabindranath Tagore's 158th birth anniversary was observed last Thursday (May 9, 2019). On this occasion we are reproducing a piece by N.C. on Tagore written 78 years ago,...
View ArticleBJP's War against Kashmir and the Kashmiris
A casual glance at the reports of human rights organisations testifies gross human rights violations in the Kashmir Valley after the enactment of the Armed Forces (Jammu and Kashmir) Special Powers...
View ArticleVVPAT Verification: The Supreme Court Must Defend Democracy
For citizens of India who still care about preserving constitutional democracy, it was a reassuring moment when four senior-most judges of the highest court in the land confided publicly their fear...
View ArticleCurse! "Maine kaha tera (Mumbai ATS chief late Hemant Karkare) sarvanash hoga”
“In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.... If Hindu Raj does become a fact, it will, no doubt be the greatest calamity for this country. No matter what...
View ArticleCredibility of Election Commission under Scanner
by Mahendra VedGoverning general elections in as vast and diverse a nation as India is never easy; it becomes more difficult when integrity and impartiality of the poll administrator are...
View ArticleThe Smothering of Justice
IntroductionIt has been evident for some time that the judicial system in India is in a state of crisis. It is also increasingly obvious that this crisis is interconnected with a crisis in the polity...
View ArticleLove and Care
She had in her hut only one blanketdonated by a NGO last year.She wrapped her two children with itto keep them warmin the bone-chilling wintry night.For her she had bare cotton clothto ward off the...
View ArticleL'affaire Viraat
Prime Minister Modi's electoral campaign “expose” of misuse of naval assets by the late ex-PM, Rajiv Gandhi, his wife Sonia Gandhi and a host of others with them in 1987 during a visit to Lakshwadeep...
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Unforeseen Event at Last Phase of Polls
EDITORIALAs we enter the last phase of the seven-phase polls to elect the 17th Lok Sabha this year, an uncertain future stares us in the face. What happened in the streets of Kolkata in the wake of the...
View ArticleRevisiting the Bilkis Bano Gang Rape Case
On the day Gujarat went to the Lok Sabha polls (April 23, 2019), the Supreme Court ordered the Gujarat Government to pay Rs 50 lakhs as compensation, provide a government job, and “accommodation in a...
View ArticleOnly a few days, dear one, a few days more
Under oppression's shadows condemned to breathe,Still for a time we must bear them, and tears, and endureWhat our forefathers, not our own faults, bequeath:Fettered limbs, each impulse held on a...
View ArticleWhy Modi is Invincible and Disastrous
by Sukumaran C.V.But the problem is no longer merely a moral or an ethical one. It is a practical and urgent problem of today, for the world is in a hopeless muddle, and some way out must be...
View ArticleThe Continuing Relevance of Karl Marx
by Zahoor Ahmad WaniThose who are awake have one common world...—Heraclitus... they have a world to win—Marx and EngelsThis article examines how relevant Marx's ideas are in the contemporary neoliberal...
View ArticleFloating Boat of Politics and the Skeletal Mahanadi
by K.C. RathaAbstractThe major thrust of the article is to explore how river-dependent communities around the basin are bereft of minimum living support including safe drinking water and irrigation on...
View ArticleSpecial Category Status for Odisha
by S.N. SahuWhen the State of Odisha was hit by cyclone Fani it was stated that it was the worst cyclone after the super cyclone of 1999 described as “the most powerful ever recorded in India, and one...
View ArticleSubhas Mukhopadhyay 100
by Amiya DevI first saw Subhas Mukhopadhyay in the mid-1950s. A Peace Conference was being held at Wellington or today's Subodh Mallik Square. I had gone to hear it. One of the speakers wasSubhas...
View ArticleLove for Godse, Hatred for Gandhi!
by Binoy ViswamThe imaginary wall that the Sangh Parivar built in between the BJP and Godse has crumbled. All along these years, whenever the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi was discussed, the BJP...
View ArticleLet not Truths remain Tongueless
Athens feared the cloutless Socrates,Because he said what he had to say;He drank the hemlock cheerfully,And Athens is known by him today.Wycliff wrote the word of godIn the English tongue;Burnt at the...
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