Sheikh Abdullah, What Next?
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 ArticleNational Security Paradigm: Social Media Ban in Jammu & Kashmir
by Nishtha ChadhaAbrogation of Articles 370 and 35A has led to the emergence of new fault-lines in Jammu and Kashmir. The August 5, 2019 decision of the incumbent BJP Government at the Centre has set...
View ArticleHow the US Economy is thriving in a war-war Situation in the World
by Monaem SarkerThis summer's fears about escalating trade tensions and war, slowing global growth and an inverted yield curve in the United States have been let up somewhat as the year has progressed....
View ArticleMalegaon (September 29, 2008) attack: Now the Hindu Rashtra in the Making
by Mustafa KhanIt is time to own our own terror rather than hide it from the world. That is more important as we in India quote “truth lives”. We boast about bidding farewell to open defecating after...
View ArticleRSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat identifies India as a Hindu Rashtra
by Arun SrivastavaNow it is no more a hidden secret. So far they have been evading a direct confession. But on October 2, the birthday of Gandhi, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat publically confessed that India...
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No Compromise with Hindu Majoritarianism
EDITORIALIs it the final nail in the coffin of secular India? In the campaign for the State Assembly elections in Maharashtra and Haryana (which are to take place on October 21) PM Narendra Modi has...
View ArticleUnmaking of Constitutional Rights in Kashmir
In his discourse on promises of the Indian Constitution, Rohit De argued that “constitu-tional engagement included large numbers of ordinary Indians, often from minorities or subaltern groups”. He...
View ArticleLeft Politics in Post-2019 India: Task of Creating a New United Front
by Pratip ChattopadhyayIntroductionThe verdict of the 17th Lok Sabha elections in 2019 came as a political shock for the Left political parties as in a 545-seat-based Lok Sabha, the Left parties have...
View ArticleThe Poverty Challenge
by Suranjita RayIt is pertinent to acknowledge that poverty is one of the biggest hindrances to human development and a challenge to the policy- makers. Since any universal or objective interpretation...
View ArticleNobel for ‘Poor Economics': Some Questions
by Atanu Sengupta and Sanjoy DeIntroductionThe conferment of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer is an accolade to the randomised control trial (RCT)1...
View ArticleStrong Executive, Weak Courts: Collapsing Edifice of Judicial Independence
by Prannv Dhawan and Anmol jainIntroductionThe downgrading of the credentials of India's constitutional democracy has been a subject of severe domestic and global critique in recent times....
View ArticleWanted: Not Drift But Statesmanship
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 ArticleThe Failing Art of Selling Normalcy in Kashmir
If “normalcy” has indeed returned, why not let innocent Kashmiris, including leaders and workers of political parties, savour a taste of it?Remember when a sniper gun mysteriously appeared en route the...
View ArticleChanging Caste-Class Equations: Emergence of a New Politics in India
by Kunal Kumar YadavThe emergence of new caste-class equation in India is a phenomenon which needs serious attention and an indepth analysis. The movement of the lower castes' affiliation towards the...
View ArticleKashmir: Hunting with the hounds and playing with the hare
by Mustafa KhanThere is arcane silence in the Kashmir Valley. It is fraught with the danger that there is some sinister conspiracy of tiring out the enemy by prolonging the lockdown and continuing the...
View ArticleRSS Combine: Ideology, Violence and Power
by Ram PuniyaniThe RSS is the major organisation influencing politics and other aspects of our society for the last nearly three decades. As such it has the agenda of a Hindu Rashtra, and it politics...
View ArticleThe Culture of Sycophancy that is ruining Democracy
by Arun SrivastavaBhakti, devotion or hero-worship is an important element in Indian politics, unequalled in magnitude by the part it plays in the politics of any other country. If in religion Bhakti...
View ArticleAssembly Poll Verdict Stuns BJP
POLITICAL NOTEBOOKThe final results of Maharashtra and Haryana Assembly polls are yet to come, but the broad picture is clear enough. In Maharashtra the BJP's loyal propagandists masquerading as...
View ArticleElections Free and Fair
{{}}Now that all party leaders areSafely locked up,We will yet show the carping worldHow to hold free and fair elections.Note that the electors are tucked awayToo in hotels where no one mayApproach...
View ArticleVested Interest in Modi-Trump ‘Friendship'
MUSINGSWondering aloud: Is the Modi-Trump ‘friendship' carrying a whole range of vested interests? Much in tune with the expansionist policies of America, the selling and buying of weapons, the role of...
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