Sardar Sarovar Dam and Unity in India
A dam discharging water combined with a tall statue of a tall leader is a breath-taking tourist attraction.As a dam is built, water fills behind it, submerging vast areas. Every being which cannot live...
View ArticlePentagon's Loss
From N.C.'s WritingsLast month was observed the thirtyfirst death anniversary of General Zia-ul-Haq, Pakistan's third military dictator, who was killed in an air crash in that country in August 1988....
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News Behind The Barbed Wire: Kashmir's Information Blockade
DOCUMENT“When life is at stake, credibility takes a back seat.”Concertina wires encircle a deserted Lal Chowk, 3 p.m., August 30, 2019.Key findings: Curbs on the media and its implications...
View ArticleReport by the NWMI and FSC after a Visit to Kashmir
MEDIAThe following is the press release of the report of a two-member team from the Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI) and Free Speech Collective (FSC) after a five-day trip to the Kashmir Valley....
View ArticleOn the Importance of the ‘Intellectual'
by Arup MaharatnaIt was about twenty years ago that I got deeply struck by happening to see a printed portrait of Mahatma Gandhi just next to the picture of an India-born Miss Universe in the same page...
View ArticleThe Afghan Deal : Why it Fell Through and Thereafter
The world was startled on September 7 when US President Donald Trump announced, out of the blue as it were, that the Afghan peace negotiations were off and that he had called off a meeting to finalise...
View ArticleKeeping a Safe Distance
When the saffron Sun is safelyAway in the distant firmament,It brings warmth to seed, leaf, creatures;But when it rises to the high noon,It turns belligerent. And then seed, leaf,Creature are in peril...
View ArticleLone Furrow
At daybreak when life stirs out of night's slumber,early mists evaporate in the slanting sun beams,joggers come out on the street in steady numbers,an old man leaning on a ‘walker' brings up the...
View ArticleAbolition of Article 370 : Propaganda versus Truth
by Ram PuniyaniThe abolition of Article 370 and Article 35 A has been accompanied by the propaganda to justify these drastic steps taken by the BJP Government. As such this abolition of Article 370 has...
View ArticleKashmir: An Optimist's View
by Sardar Amjad AliA law is enacted by the legislature with definite objects and good reasons. This cardinal principle of legislature is universally followed. A government elected by the people is not...
View ArticleWhither India?
The arrest of the 83-year-old and ailing former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir and a sitting Member of Parliament Farooq Abdullah under the Public Safety Act—a law which was enacted to deal with...
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Where Are We Heading?
EDITORIALToday is September 19, 2019. Precisely 46 days ago the Government of India had abrogated the Articles 370 and 35A of our Constitution thereby divesting Kashmir of its special status in the...
View ArticleFreedom
Would you be free of the tyrannyWrought by the benevolent?Learn to turn your resolute backOn words of sweet intent.Ask the insistent benefactorWhat he has up his sleeve;Keep a steady frown in place,Let...
View ArticleA Tribute to Valiant Bhagat Singh
BOOK REVIEWThe Bhagat Singh Reader byChaman Lal (ed);Noida: Harper Collins;2019; pp. 616; Rs 799.On September 28, 2019 we are celebrating the 112th birth anniversary of gallant revolu-tionary Bhagat...
View ArticleButterflies and All Things Good
IMPRESSIONSWhen you are a downside-up man condemned to horizontality in bed, you start imagining that the world is plotting against you. A butterfly on the window or an itch on the left hand are seen...
View ArticleThe Interest around Chandrayaan-2 hides the Gloomy Future of Research in India
by Sambit RoychowdhuryWriting on the Chandrayaan-2, the space mission, the nation's imagination is aflame with several excellent articles on the mission having already appeared in both the national as...
View ArticleKashmir in Focus
From N.C.'s WritingsIn 1967, that is, fiftytwo years ago, N.C. visited the Kashmir Valley for a few days and held detailed discussions with a wide cross-section of opinion-makers and political...
View ArticleTwo Politicians Grow in Houston
by L.K. SharmaTwo events held on the same day confused India-watchers. At Howdy Modi, a gigantic political extravaganza in Houston, more than 50,000 Am-Indians kept cheering Prime Minister Modi and US...
View ArticleHowdy Modi had nothing of enduring value for India
The art of flattery, contrary to what one might think, is a complicated affair. If it is too straightforward, it runs the risk of appearing artificial, especially when the flatterer contrives to...
View ArticleBJP's Appropriation of the Telangana Liberation Struggle (1946-48)
The following article came out in Countercurrents on January 27, 2018. In view of its importance today it is being reproduced here for the benefit of our readers.The BJP last year observed September 17...
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