Gandhi Alone is the ‘Father of India'
by Ram PuniyaniThe ‘Howdy Modi' event in Houston was an eye-catcher for more reasons than one. While Modi was saying ‘All is Well' in India, thousands of protestors outside were showing the real mirror...
View ArticleEnvisioning Gandhi in Draft New Education Policy in India
by D.M. DiwakarIContextThe Census of India 2011 suggests that about 30 per cent of the population is below 15 years. The United Nations Population Division's report projection suggests that the youth...
View ArticleRemembering Vidyasagar on his 200th Birthday
by Jayanta Kumar GhosalIswar Chandra Vidyasagar (Bandopadhyay), the doyen or our 19th Century Bengali Renaissance, was born in a dark period of the early 19th Century, on September 26, 1820, in a...
View ArticleWomen of the World Stand with Kashmir, Stand with the Women of Kashmir
The following is a statement of solidarity with the women of Kashmir issued by women of all countries including India as well as national and international women's organisations. On August 30, 2019,...
View ArticlePlaying Diaspora Diplomacy: Profits and Pitfalls
by L.K. SharmaHowdy, Modi, the Houston extravaganza, was part of the Prime Minister's mission to involve the Hindu diaspora in India's domestic politics. This time, he went further by inducting himself...
View ArticleHolding Kashmir to Ransom
by M.A. SofiFar from the ruse of development or ‘main-streaming' Kashmir as the stated purpose behind repealing Article 370, all that it is meant and intended to achieve is to advance an agenda that...
View ArticleWhy Malayalam Outclasses Hindi
IMPRESSIONSI am convinced that Malayalam should be declared the national language of India. Of the many reasons, consider just two. It is a universal language spoken all over the globe and in outer...
View ArticleJP: Some Reflections
From N.C.'s Writings[by] AnalystOn the occasion of Jayaprakash Narayan's 117th birth anniversary on October 11, 2019 we are carrying the following piece written by N.C. under the pseudonym ‘Analyst'...
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Scenario in India and Beyond
POLITICAL NOTEBOOKWhile one positive development in the overall national political scenario is the belated decision of the Bihar Police to close the sedition case against 49 leading intellectuals and...
View ArticleSquare
Life seems to be a straight lineendlessly elongating;a time comes when it bends,shaping into a big square.The square gets small, smaller;you shuffle within its confines.The sensory world closes...
View ArticleThere is a Word No Longer Heard
There is a word no longer heard,No longer in the human mind;As life moves its epistemes,Words get left behind.There is comfort, there is fun,Skill, show, applause;But lack of meat at the heart of...
View ArticleFrom Rajghat, Delhi to Geneva: Yearlong Gandhian March for Justice and Peace
From October 2 to October 4 there was a very colourful gathering of people from several nations in Delhi. This was part of the inauguration and preparation for a global peace initiative in the form of...
View Article“Independent Jammu and Kashmir”— a Crying Hoax
by M.M. KhajooriaProminent Muslim leaders like Ali Shah Geelani and his Jamaat-i-Islami colleagues solemnly take oath in the name of Allah “to preserve and protect the integrity of India” at the time...
View ArticleTo Vote or Not to Vote — An analysis of Compulsory Voting
by Neha ChauhanThe General elections of 2019 would be remembered for many things, one of them being that India recorded a voter turnout of 67 per cent, the highest ever in the history of the country's...
View ArticleKashmir Caged: Violence on Children, Media Functioning
MUSINGSFrom this October 2, let us try and speak the truth and also try and hear only the truth. After all, Mahatma Gandhi's biggest weapon was his strength to speak only and only the truth. Armed with...
View ArticleA Fresh Look at an Off-beat Genre-docu-feature Film
BOOK REVIEWNibandha Chalachchitra by Iqbal Karim Hasnu; published by Aninda Rahman on behalf of Curious Dhaka, Dhaka; 2018; pp. 152; 300 Taka.This slender book entitled Nibandha Chalach-chitra (Essays...
View ArticleWill Tax Cut Boost the Economy?
September 20, 2019, saw the highest rise in the Indian stock market in a decade because the government announced a big tax cut for the corporate sector in India. This was a clear response to the flood...
View ArticleShould Jewar International Airport be named after Gandhi?
by Prem SinghYesterday (October 1, 2019) I had the opportunity to share a car ride with Virendra Kumar Barnwal who is the author of Hind Swaraj: Nav-Sabhyata Vimarsh. We both were en route to the South...
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The Language of Languages in India
The recent pronouncement by Amit Shah, the Home Minister of India, to impose Hindi as the official state language generated immense heartsore in many parts of the country, mostly the littoral States....
View ArticleAre Indian Women More Creative Than Indian Men?
by Ashok CellyIt seems Indian men have lost the capacity to be creative, that is, to do original thinking, to throw fresh ideas, to think out of the box. During the last few decades no fresh or...
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