Kashmir: The Stark Reality
The following are excerpts from Delhi-based writer, columinist and journalist Humra Quraishi's latest book, Kashmir: The Unending Tragedy—Report from the Frontlines, published by Amaryllis (An imprint...
View ArticleThe Malaise of Starvation Deaths
by Suranjita RayThough starvation deaths in 2019 seem incongruous in a country which claims to have conquered hunger, we come across reported experiences of such tragedies. This compels us to not only...
View ArticleReclaiming Secular Democracy in Today's India
Secularism is under serious threat today, as the ruling dispensation's narrative of the concept is totally different from what our national leaders of the freedom struggle had professed and taught us....
View ArticleSliding Towards a Fascist State
This article was written before August 5, 2019 when the Government of India changed the political complexion of J&K through a highly controversial operation.So the UAPA has been amended. The Union...
View ArticleThe Peace that Passeth Understanding
What lovely streets, cleanAs a whistle.And shopfronts safe with padlocks,Unhassled by hangers-on.Schools and colleges grandIn their uninhabited architecture.And hospitals never as sparseOf patient and...
View ArticleOverthrowing British Rule in India with Nazi Help: A Tale with a Twist
by Nirode K. BarooahOn April 3, 1941 Subhas Chandra Bose, all of a sudden, arrived in Berlin from Afghanistan via the Soviet Union disguised as Signor Orlando Mazzotta, an Italian diplomat. His purpose...
View ArticleKashmir and the Future of Indian Federalism
by Partha S. GhoshOne thing is virtually missing in the entire discourse on Narendra Modi's latest Kashmir blitzkrieg. Commentators are discussing its legal, historical and international aspects but...
View ArticleA Betrayal of People
by Rahul Pandey and Sandeep PandeyIn a single stroke of decisions, the Indian Government has revoked Articles 370 and 35A, bifurcated J&K into J&K and Ladakh, and reduced their status to Union...
View ArticleSpirit of August Fifteenth
From N.C.'s WritingsAugust Fifteenth, the day when the Tricolour of independent India was hoisted on the ramparts of the Red Fort thirty seven years ago, not only brings back the imperishable memories...
View ArticleGovernment's Decision on Jammu and Kashmir: A Long Leap into Unconstitutionality
by Prem SinghAs per the decision the present day government took in Parliament on August 5, 2019, the special status of the State of Jammu and Kashmir, accorded under Article 370 of the Constitution of...
View ArticleKashmir: Abolition of Article 370 and its Implications
by Ram PuniyaniCurrently there are celebrations in sections of the Indian society and there is a pall of gloom in Kashmir. On Tuesday, August 5 (2019), by a Presidential order Article 370 has been...
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Grim Scenario on I-Day 2019
EditorialOnce again we are approaching another Independence Day, our seventythird. But it will be observed under conditions that are qualitatively different from the ones in the past.Only recently this...
View ArticleProf Ashok Parthasarathi Is No More
Renowned scientist and former S&T Advisor to late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, Prof Ashok Parthasarathi, 79, passed away at his residence in New Delhi on August 12, 2019 after a brief illness. He...
View ArticleSolidarity of “Social Left” alone can guide the “Party Left”
by Gopal KrishnaIn his “End of ‘Left-politics' in India?”, Sunil Ray (August 3, 2019, Mainstream) has attempted to develop a critique against the rootless thought of ‘Left-politics' having lost its...
View ArticleGone Away! Lost Happiness
by Harish ChandolaVeteran journalist Harish Chandola recently lost his son. In the following piece he has written about him. It is being published here for the benefit of our readers. Chandola is a...
View ArticleBukharin: The Great Humanist Revolutionary
BOOK REVIEWNikolai Bukharin by Sobhanlal Datta Gupta; Seribaan, Bakhrahat, South 24 Parganas, West Bengal; 2019.In the post-Soviet collapse period, there has been a growing search for alternatives to...
View ArticleDear PM, Please check your facts
by Subhash GatadeJean Dreze, the Belgian born Indian economist and activist, who has co-authored books with Nobel Laureates like Amartya Sen and Angus Deaton, reached headlines for entirely different...
View ArticleFacing a Storm
A razing storm is blowing.You face it like an oak treeagainst its cyclonic speed,but get uprooted in the end.Or you bend like a willow,letting the storm pass over,again regain your posture,finding...
View ArticleRest in Peace, Comrade Kutty. The Struggle Continues
TRIBUTEby Beena SarwarThe following is what Pakistani journalist Beena Sarwar recently wrote in her syndicated column as a tribute to Pakistani and South Asian public figure B.M. Kutty who breathed his...
View ArticleBhupesh : Some Reminiscences
From N.C.'s WritingsTo write about somebody whom one has known for more than four decades—sometimes very closely—is not easy after his or her passing away. For me, Bhupesh Gupta was one whom I have...
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