A Report on Cow Protection Violence in India
Writing on the social dynamics of communal violence in India, social anthropologist, Julia Eckert, observed: “The success of Hindu nationalist organisations...lies not simply in their nationalist credo...
View ArticleShanghai Cooperation Organisation — China Emerging as Major Beneficiary
by R.G. GidadhubliThe 19th Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Summit (SCO) was held on June 14, 2019 in Bishkek, the capital city of Kyrgyzstan. The Russian President, Vladimir Putin, Chinese President...
View ArticleInsanity Enthroned
From N.C.'s WritingsAfter forty years of the foundation of our independent republic, the Frankenstein has appeared again—the monster that is out to destroy democracy and plunge this nation into civil...
View ArticleReligions and Politics of Manipulation in South Asia
by Swami AgniveshThe predicament of minorities in every society has to be understood sensitively and wisely, especially by themselves. On the whole, this is not the case. Religious minorities tend to...
View ArticleWhere is the State to Protect the Dispossessed and Downtrodden?
by Gautam SenOne more gory instance of assault and depredation against the deprived and the dispossessed of India has come to light. This was a July 6, 2019 incident concerning a 35-year-old Scheduled...
View ArticleCrocodile Tears about Data Availability: A Tragic Story Never Told
by Atanu Sengupta and Sanjoy DeRecently there has been much hue and cry regarding the publication of the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) data. It has been a signed documentation of 108...
View ArticleDecoding BJPs Landslide Victory in Haryana
by Ranbir SinghThe BJP, which had obtained 34.18 per cent votes and won seven out of 10 seats from Haryana in the 2014 parliamentary elections, has been able to get 57.93 per cent votes and win all the...
View ArticleThe Stupidity of Repeating Failed Strategies - Playing games doomed to be a...
by Amin SofiNever to learn lessons from a long list of mistakes it already stands accused of having committed in Kashmir, the Government of India is at it again, repeating those worn-out tactics which...
View ArticleCentenary Homage to the Victims of Jallianwala Bagh Massacre
Jallianwala Bagh massacre was committed on April 13, 1919 when people had gathered to celebrate the Baisakhi at Amritsar, Punjab. This article pays homage to the innocent and peaceful men, women and...
View ArticleWhat Does the Union Budget Signify?
by Anup K. SinhaThis year the Union Budget was, for all practical purposes, presented twice. The first time it was in February 2019 as an Interim Budget which seemed exactly like a full-fledged annual...
View ArticleRainbow of Races
Is white psyche racist?Hitler's industrial ‘final solution',Eliot's unsuspecting line:‘Gentile or Jew' in the Waste Land,Trump's taunting tweet:“let ‘em leave, let ‘em leave”—all hinted at its outer...
View ArticleOpen Letter to the Vice-Chancellor of Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur...
Respected Vice-Chancellor Dr Siddhartha-vinayaka P. Kane Saheb,I am writing this open letter to you on a critical issue concerning the contents of the syllabus at your university. As per a communiqué...
View ArticleIt is Sanghi Rashtravad indeed!
by Hargopal SinghAssorted minds, big and small, continue to rack their brains to interpret the results of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. There is virtually a spate of opinions which widely diverge....
View ArticleTurkey Undeterred by US Sanctions Threat
The loss of Istanbul to an Opposition candidate in Turkey's recent local elections was hyped up by many American commentators, especially pro-Israeli analysts, as marking the end of President Recep...
View ArticlePolitical Defections in Karnataka and Goa: A Blow to Democracy
by Joseph AbrahamWith the political environment in Karnataka and Goa getting murkier after the shameful political defections, the prophecy of Lord Acton, the famous English historian, politician and...
View ArticleNow the RTI Act
The RTC (Amendment) Bill which the ruling party got passed in the Lok Sabha by its sheer brute majority is of a piece with the Modi Government's systematic and sustained efforts at subverting the...
View ArticleRSS in Textbooks: Contrasting Concepts of Nation and Nation-building
by Ram PuniyaniNationalism has been a matter of debate yet again. For last few years we saw individuals being labelled as anti-national for criticising the ruling government, we witnessed the attack on...
View ArticleGandhi or no Gandhi, Priyanka Shows the Way
The Indian National Congress has been in the doldrums no doubt.The many autopsies that have been airing since the results of the general elections came have tended to interpret the difficulties of the...
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RTI, Karnataka, Sheila Dikshit, A.K. Roy
EDITORIALWith the BJP getting support from the parties that are fence-sitters in the Rajya Sabha to take the ruling conglomerate's strength in the Upper House to a majority, the NDA, now in power for...
View ArticlePolitical Triplets of New Democracy
by L.K. SharmaThree important democracies have thrown up leaders who conform to a tried-and-tested template that is a telling comment on the state of the democratic word and on our times. This template...
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