The Scene in Afghanistan: Perfidious Americans and Ambitious, Crafty Taliban
by Apratim MukarjiEvery commentator on Afghanistan goes back to the year 1989, even though they are talking about today's developments. That year, with the Soviet occupation Army driven out of...
View ArticlePreserve Radhakrishnan's Gift to the Nation
From N.C.'s WritingsSeptember 5 this year marked Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan‘s 131st birth anniversary. Every year September 5 is observed as Teacher's Day in honour of the second President of our...
View ArticlePress Club allows Press Conference on Kashmir Report but disallows Film/Video
COMMUNICATIONI was present at this amazing, historic Press Conference at the Press Club of India, New Delhi, on August 14, 2019 afternoon, by a team just back from its Kashmir visit from August 9 to 13...
View ArticleKashmir Caged
The following is a report by a team of civil rights activists—comprising economist Jean Drèze, CPI-ML leader Kavita Krishnan (representing the All India Progressive Women's Association), Maimoona...
View ArticleNational Register of Citizens: Divisive Institution Creating Statelessness
by Gautam SenThe final list constituting the National Register of Citizens (NRC), pertaining to the State of Assam, has been published on August 31, 2019. While 311,21,004 persons are included in the...
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Kashmir, NRC, Teachers' Day
EDITORIALA month has passed since the complete shut- down in Kashmir accompanying the abrogation of Articles 370 and 35A of the Constitution delivering a body blow to the special status of the State...
View ArticleAfter Abrogation of Article 370: Cutting corners won't cut any ice
by M.A. SofiFollowing the developments on August 5, 2019 involving the revocation of Articles 370/5A and the bifurcation of the J&K State into Union Territories, Kashmiris have good reasons to...
View ArticleThe Perils of Religiosity as a Plank of Electoral Politics in India
by Ganeshdatta PoddarContrary to modernity's belief that with the onward march of science and rationality, and universalisation of liberal values and institutions of liberal democracy, the role of...
View ArticleUpcoming Moscow Election — Free and Fair? Russia's Controlled Democracy
by R.G. GidadhubliBeatings of the potential independent candidates who are denied to contest in the upcoming election for the 45-seat Moscow City Duma legislature to be held on September 8, 2019 and...
View ArticleWhy Naxalism?
FROM N.C.'S WRITINGSThis article was written by N.C. fortynine years ago as ‘Observer' in the Political Notebook of Mainstream (May 2, 1970) during the first wave of the Naxalite movement.The spate of...
View ArticleRemembering Jatindra Nath Das on his 90th Death Anniversary
COMMUNICATIONTt was 90 years ago, on September 13, 1929, that Jatindra Nath Das, one of the most courageous and committed freedom fighters of India, breathed his last at Lahore Central Jail after a...
View ArticleIn the Aftermath of Abrogation of Article 370
by Ishfaq Majid and Varinder SinghIn 1949, a special provision was added to India's Constitution providing autonomy to the State of Jammu and Kashmir. The Article was allowing the State to have its own...
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The 17th Lok Sabha Polls (2019) in Kerala: A Decisive Political Vote
by M.R. Biju and M.R.B. Anantha PadmanabhaAbstractFor the Left parties in Kerala it is the time for a clear introspection. Unless they adopt stringent corrective measures, they may soon be on the road...
View ArticleOn Migration from Goa
Sometime ago, I visited several villages and towns in the neighbouring districts of Maharashtra and Karnataka to meet people of Goan origin settled there. During the 16th and 17th centuries thousands...
View ArticleThe Latest Escalation in the US-China Trade War
by Monaem SarkerThe US-China trade war unexpectedly escalated recently when President Trump announced a 15 per cent tariff on $ 300 billion of Chinese imports that had thus far largely avoided becoming...
View ArticleIcons and Ideology of Religious Nationalism
by Ram PuniyaniThe nationalism, which was at the root of the freedom movement and which is based on inclusive pluralism, is currently under severe strain with the ascendance of the politics of the RSS...
View ArticleQuagmire of Bust Installation at University of Delhi
by Prem SinghOne important inference that can be drawn from the speeches of the August 30, 2019 rally of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) is that the recent bust controversy will be a...
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US, Taliban, l'affaire Chinmayanand
EDITORIALEighteen years have passed since 9/11—the attack on New York's twin towers by the Taliban of Afghanistan just to demonstrate their power against the world's most powerful country, the USA. And...
View Article2019 Protests in Hong Kong and China's ‘One Country, Two Systems'
by Bihu ChamadiaAbstractThe ongoing protests in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) of China began in June 2019 as an agitation against the Extradition Bill. By August it took the shape...
View ArticleDeconstructing “Resurgent India”
The Development Monthly, Yojana, published by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, has recently published an issue titled “Resurgent India.” (September 2019) It is claimed in the editorial:...
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