Gains in Doha Afghan Talks
Some progress appears to have been made in talks on Afghanistan being held in a posh Qatari hotel sometime ago to solve the 40-year old complex conflict in Afghanistan, where the Taliban at the moment...
View ArticleTribute to Primla Loomba
by Nandita Chaturvedi and Archishman RajuIt seems a little out of place for us, who have had very limited interaction with Primla Loomba, to be writing a tribute to her and we must humbly acknowledge...
View ArticleUnion Budget 2019-20
by Sher Singh SangwanVision of BudgetThe Finance Minister (FM), at the outset of her Budget speech, has spelled out that the Budget 2019-20 attempts to align its goals with the Vision for the decade,...
View ArticleGovernment's Obsession with Growth — Misleading the Nation
The Economic Survey presented by the government to Parliament on July 4, 2019, a day before the Budget presentation, targets eight per cent growth and aspires India to grow at this rate annually, so...
View ArticleEnd of ‘Left-politics' in India?
by Sunil RayThe massive electoral defeat of the Leftist parties in India in the recent Lok Sabha election seems to have pushed many to despair and left nothing to hope for its revival. While commoners...
View ArticleOnce Upon A Time
Once Upon A TimeOnce upon a time there used to beA Left in politics.Now even the Centre cannot holdOff the Right's umbilical trickThe Left remained a reasoning fool,The Centre a shapeless sponge;The...
View ArticleModi's Ship hits the Kashmir Iceberg
A thoughtful feature of the post-Cold War ‘adjustment' in India's foreign policies following the disbandment of the former Soviet Union was that Delhi should stick to the proverbial principle ‘see no...
View ArticleGP's Selfless Dedication to Indian Democracy
From N.C.'s WritingsGopalaswami Parthasarthi or GP, as the legendary diplomat, academic and media specialist was widely known to one and all, passed away in New Delhi on August 1, 1995. His birth...
View ArticleLong wait for Justice for Pakistan's Gang-rape Survivor
For 17 years, justice has eluded Mukhtaran Mai, the woman who has come to represent the feudal underbelly of Pakistan. The country's best known gang-rape survivor has been pushed between police...
View ArticleNeed for a National Water Policy
by Saumitra MohanThe Rain God has been playing pricey for sometime in this country. All the skyward prayers and purported rain-invoking rituals seem to have been in vain with the rainfall still...
View ArticleLooking down the road, will there be holocaust in India?
by Mustafa KhanLooking back to Narendra Modi in 2002 there is reason to believe that there will be mass destruction and slaughter in the future. He has won the war and so post-war destruction in terms...
View ArticleYogi Government is Directly Complicit in Sonbhadra Massacre
The following is the lead article in CPI-ML's weekly newsmagazine, ML Update, (Vol. 22, July 23-29, 219). It is being reproduced here with due acknowledgement.On July 19, 2019, a village chief (gram...
View ArticleCongress Moving Towards a Split?
IMPRESSIONSRahul Gandhi's insistence on not continuing as the Congress President was the best thing that happened to the Congress in a long time. He must stick to it. Confusion and chaos, perhaps even...
View ArticleModi 2.0: Whither Indian Democracy?
by Ram PuniyaniNarendra Modi has won the 2019 elections with a resounding mandate. Now his party has a simple majority in the Lok Sabha and his alliance NDA has a sizeable majority in the Lower House...
View ArticleAmending the RTI Act is about Cutting Troublesome Citizens Down to Size
At a time when there is a countrywide demand that the modalities of the appointment of the Election Commissioners be amended to an independent collegium format in order to enhance the credibility of...
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BJP in the Dock following Unnao
EDITORIALThe BJP's role in the gory happenings around a case of rape in UP's Unnao district has come out in bold relief placing the ruling party at the Centre and in the State in the dock. Two years...
View ArticleSevere Erosion of Pro-India Politics in Kashmir
BOOK REVIEWby Abid Ahmad ShahKashmir: Rage and Reason by Gowhar Geelani; Publisher: Rupa Publications, New Delhi; Price: Rs 395.Kashmir is glorified the world over as paradise on the earth, second to...
View ArticleSaraswati Karketta
“Calcutta University worshipping the Chandal” was the vicious campaigns targeting Mukunda Behari Mallick, when he was appointed as a Pali teacher by Vice-Chancellor Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee in 1921.The...
View ArticleMartyrdom vs Saudi Selfishness
IMPRESSIONSIf God is love, why does he allow suffering? A timeless question. The answer provided by religion is that suffering leads to enlightenment. So a rishi would stand on one leg for years,...
View ArticleCommunists and ‘Quit India' Struggle
From N.C.'s WritingsWe reproduce N.C.'s following article on the 77th anniversary of the ‘Quit India' struggle that began on August 9, 1942.This was the week, fiftytwo years ago, that marked the...
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