Gandhi or Godse
The moral compass has no tones of greyIt is white or blackIt is light or darknessIt is good or evilIt is Gandhi or Godse.Suhas Borker[Suhas Borker is an independent documentary filmmaker and Convener,...
View ArticleNecessary evils, too, are evil in game-changer election
IMPRESSIONSEveryone knows that this election is a game- changer. It is becoming clear that it is a convention-breaker as well. Things that were a no-no in electioneering are now accepted norms. Things...
View ArticleMandate and After
From N.C.'s WritingsIn the wake of PM Narendra Modi's tremendous success at the hustings by securing a second term in office, it is worthwhile reading the following lines written after Rajiv Gandhi's...
View ArticleWhy Kerala balked the Modi Wave
Through the looking glass of a staunchly ‘secular-minded' Malayali—a dirty word in the current idiom when triumphalist cultural nationalism is on the march—the Indian election results evoke mixed...
View ArticleThe new “New India”: How New it will Be
Many literate and not so literate men and women of my generation grew up with stipulations about a “New India” that derived from the ideals of the freedom movement.As is well-known, those ideals came...
View ArticleIndian elections: It wasn't the economy, stupid!
by L.K. SharmaNarendra Modi's stunning victory in the parliamentary elections speaks volumes about the transformed India and an India keen to be transformed further. He defied the incumbency handicap...
View ArticleThe Congress at a Critical Juncture
The humiliating defeat the Congress suffered in the latest Lok Sabha elections has faced it with an existential crisis. The truth is that as a parliamentary party trying to come to power through...
View ArticleAn Elegy for Democracy
23.05.2019 will be remembered as a black day.It was the day democracy in India was gagged to death.In line with a new bhaktiA demagogue became god and dictatorship was reinstated.In a country that...
View ArticleWest Bengal Outcome: The Hard Truth - It's Pointless to Blame Mamata
by Samyak GhoshPrime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi wants you to believe that the biggest story in the general election of 2019 is ‘inclusiveness'. While following the election result trends from...
View ArticleNarendra Modi's Landslide: Bad for India's Soul - Text of The Guardian's...
The world does not need another national populist leader who pursues a pro-business agenda while trading in fake news and treating minorities as second-class citizens.The biggest election in history...
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Modi Government Takes Charge
EDITORIALLess than seven days after the results of the 17th Lok Sabha elections came out handing PM Narendra Modi a handsome victory at the hustings and enabling him to embark on a second term as the...
View ArticleUbiquitous
Where is the need to worry now,When the Lord watches over us?—He peers from walls and lampposts,His care is ubiquitous.What god did ever reveal himselfWith tireless insistence?What fools were ever...
View ArticleNew Grammar of Politics in West Bengal
West Bengal has witnessed significant political transformations in the 17th Lok Sabha elections in 2019. The BJP has emerged as the main political contender of the ruling party in the State, Trinamul...
View ArticleValuable, Critical Insights into the Inner Workings of the Media in...
BOOK REVIEWby Naren Singh RaoMedia's Shifting Terrain: Five Years that Transformed the Way India Communicates by Pamela Philipose; Orient BlackSwan, New Delhi; 2019; pages 320; Price: Rs 575...
View ArticleRetirement
The closing hour finally chimes;you step out on the street.A new reality staresat your face: retirement.You feel you're free:no deadlines, no pressure.You try to settle downin the last phase of...
View ArticleRussian Economy on the Backfoot—Challenges for Putin
by R.G. GidadhubliOn May 17, 2019 Rossat (Russian Statistic Service) reported that Russia's gross domestic product (GDP) rose just 0.5 per cent in the first three months of 2019 as compared to the same...
View ArticleHow the BJP's Political Narrative Filled the Holes in the NDA's Actual...
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)—and more than that, Narendra Modi—has come back with a larger mandate than what it was given by India's voters in 2014.At one level, this is remarkable given the...
View ArticleDemocracy Cannot be Exported or Imported!
by Nilofar SuhrawardyThe “news” spread and propagated about the Arab Spring spelling a “democratic revolution” did not convince me from day one. This prompted me to write articles for...
View ArticleUS Trade War Against China: The Neo-Economic Terrorism
by Joseph AbrahamEver since US President Donald Trump declared “Trade War”against China, the world is witnessing an unprecedented resurgence of protectionism which is the greatest threat to free trade...
View ArticleUniversal Basic Income: A Debate or Conundrum?
by Atanu Sengupta, Sanjoy De, Sayantan MukherjeeIntroductionIn recent times, there has been quite a hue and cry about the implementation of the universal basic income (UBI). In short, it has meant an...
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