Verdict 2019: How Harmony Lost Out - Voices from Western UP Over the Years
by Vidya SubrahmaniamAs in 2014 and 2017, so too in 2019, the Jats of Western UP overwhelmingly voted the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). This time they voted in even larger numbers even though there was...
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Media under Attack
EDITORIALLately, the media has become the target of assault by the executive. The cases of NOIDA-based journalist Prashant Kanojia and the editor and head of the NOIDA-based TV channel, Nation Live,...
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Militarisation of Siachen: An Anomaly in India's National Security Context
by Shrabana BaruaIntroductionIt can be observed that some matters of national security, particularly those involving military action, gain special attention among other national issues most of the...
View ArticleKarnad: One Man who was Many Men
IMPRESSIONSMany things will be said, and more remembered in silent wonderment, about Girish Karnad who appeared as one person but was in fact a congregation of identities—actor, playwright, director,...
View ArticleThreatened Existence of Tadvis (Bheels, Muslims etc.)
by Mustafa KhanThe death of Dr Payal Tadvi, a second year post-graduate at the Nair Hospital in Mumbai, is regrettable and unfortunate. She was doing her post-graduation and that in itself was enviable...
View ArticleMapping Pasmanda Politics in India: Demands and Challenges
by Shamsher AlamUnderstanding the Pasmanda and Dalit MuslimsThe word ‘Pasmanda' has a Persian origin. ‘The term pasmanda ... is a combination of two words, pase and manda which when joined together...
View ArticleICT Revolution, Digitisation and Growth
by Sanchita Bhattacharya and Arup MitraResource-intensive growth is not desirable for most of the developing countries as serious trade-offs are involved between the present and future growth outcomes....
View ArticlePriorities for Modi: Thrust from Act East to Indo-Pacific
by Rajaram PandaThis article was written before the Bishkek Summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO).ContextThe general elections in India conducted in seven phases lasting over 40 days to...
View ArticleBijbehara: A Challenge to Nation's Conscience
From N.C.'s WritingsAutumn has set in—the chinar in its gorgeous robe. But it is an autumn of bitter sorrow for the hapless people of Kashmir. The Valley, which was known as the paradise on earth, has...
View ArticleKashmir Today: Striving for Peace, Need to Address Alienation
by Ram PuniyaniSince the Narendra Modi Government has returned with a thumping majority, any plan of action by the BJP on Kashmir should give due importance to the strengthening of dialogue and...
View ArticleDistortion of the Constitution
by P.B. SawantThe BJP and its Parivar have never accepted our Constitution and have always been seeking a new Constitution whose objectives are exactly opposite to those of the present one and there is...
View ArticleDemocracy can Die in Daylight Too
by Krishna PrasadModesty is not a virtue of the media in the pixel age, in which preening is a 24x7 pastime. There is neither a demand for it from consumers, nor a supply of it from the practitioners....
View ArticleWho Cares for Bengal?
by ApoorvanandThe following article was first published in a different form in The Wire (https://thewire.in/communalism/bengal-violence-tmc-bjp) on June 14, 2018. This is its revised and updated...
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On the Medicos' Strike in Bengal
POLITICAL NOTEBOOKThe week-long strike of the junior doctors in West Bengal, which brought the entire public health care system to a grinding halt, causing untold misery to the suffering public, was...
View ArticleMajor Threat in West Asia
by Harish ChandolaIndia has so far not commented on the danger or possibility of a nuclear war erupting in its neighbourhood, in West Asia, where a very dangerous development is taking shape in the...
View ArticleArvind Kejriwal's Landmark Move
by Ayushi GolwaraDelhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal recently announced that women will be allowed to travel for free on the Delhi Metro, Delhi Transport Corporation buses which sparked a lot of...
View ArticleExpect New Levels of Patriotism
IMPRESSIONSNo Parliament got off to a more disgraceful start than the one in session now. The Prime Minister struck a high note when he said that the Opposition should not worry about numbers, that...
View ArticleGirish Karnad — A Tribute
by Sagari ChhabraGirish Karnad (1938—2019) playwright, actor, film-director, administrator and public intellectual, passed away recently at a time when he was needed the most. Karnad was an incredibly...
View ArticleFortysixth death anniversary of Mohan Kumaramangalam
On May 31 this year it was the fortysixth death anniversary of Mohan Kumaramangalam. On N.C.'s twentyfirst death anniversary (June 27, 2019) we reproduce the following tribute that the founder of this...
View ArticleDay One in Calcutta (August 24, 1947) / The Story of a Gadfly (Jan. 3, 1959)
The following report by Nikhil Chakravartty, the Calcutta correspondent of People's Age (published from Bombay), appeared in the weekly's August 24, 1947 issue (it was wired from Calcutta on August 17,...
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