Great Game In Central Asia: China Emerging as a Dominant Player
by R.G. GidadhubliCentral Asia—comprising of five Central Asian States (CAS), Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan—has experienced the great game being played by major...
View ArticleEnthronement of Emperor Naruhito in Japan
by Rajaram PandaThe enthronement ceremony of Emperor Naruhito of Japan, formalising his accession to the throne, was held on October 22 at the Seiden State Hall at the Imperial Palace, officially...
View ArticleLynching and the Ethos of Bharat
IMPRESSIONSOkay, so lynching is phoren. “It never happened in Bharat,” said Mohan Bhagwat, well-informed on such matters. ”It is not a word from the Indian ethos.” He then moved on to a different kind...
View ArticleKashmir: Setting the Priorities / My Earliest Recollections
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 ArticleNon-Alignment, Human Rights, New: International Order, Regional Cooperation
by Kamal HossainThe following is the paper the author presented on November 5, 2013 at the last session of the two-day conference held in New Delhi in honour of N.C. on his birth centenary.I am...
View ArticleKnowledge blended with Wisdom
by Mubashir HasanThe following message was sent by Dr Mubashir Hasan, a noted human rights activist and former Minister of Planning and Finance in Pakistan, on the occasion of N.C.'s birth centenary on...
View ArticleIndia shouldn't lose the Afghan Plot
India is probably the only country to hail the “successful conduct of Presidential elections” in Afghanistan on September 28. Everyone else is holding her/his breath. Curiously, the unusually muted...
View ArticleOn Primary Education
In July 2016, the State Government constituted a Committee on Education to study the system of grants and financial support to government and government-aided primary schools and to recommend measures...
View ArticleGandhi's Idea of Cleanliness and }Swachcha Bharat Abhiyan
Mahatma Gandhi's spectacles are being used as an emblem for the Government of India's sanitation campaign Swachha Bharat Abhiyan. Even though the Rashtriya Swayam-sevak Sangh, the ideological parent of...
View ArticleSikh Organisations: India not a Hindu Rashtra
by Ram PuniyaniThe RSS ideologues and leaders regularly keep stating that India is a Hindu Rashtra. This has been most annoying for the religious minorities, particularly Muslims, Sikhs and all those...
View ArticleWhat does November 16 portend for Sri Lanka?
November 16, 2019 should turn out to be a day Sri Lankans would not forget in a hurry. On that Saturday, Sri Lankans will choose their next President, opting for either the front-runner Gotabaya...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Weakening the Bonds
EDITORIALToday is October 31, 2019. It is being observed as the ‘National Unity Day' as per the decision of the Union Government to mark the 144th birth anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, the...
View ArticleA Letter to B.R. Ambedkar
by Inamul HaqThe following letter has been written in a competition organised by the Department of Social Sciences, Central University of Gujarat on Constitution Day (November 26, 2019). It was awarded...
View ArticleHard-Earned Rights of Construction Workers are Badly Threatened
COMMUNICATIONAfter a long struggle of almost two decades two important laws for the welfare and social security of construction workers were enacted in 1996. These provided for a cess of one per cent...
View ArticleA Lesson for Consul General Sandeep Chakravorty: Diplomacy is About Not...
It is detrimental to democracy when the Consul General of India in New York, Sandeep Chakravorty, asserts that in order to facilitate the return of the displaced Pandit community, India will build...
View ArticleIndia is not quite yet a Hindu Rashtra: 70th Constitution Day
by Aurobindo GhoseIn January 2018, four top Supreme Court Judges in a surprise move, held a press conference declaring that “Democracy is at stake, and we have a debt to the nation”. Justice Ranjan...
View ArticleStatues of Clay
by Murzban JalThere is a famous saying that when two fight, the third profits. The Brahmans thus divided the shudras and the atishudras and now are enjoying themselves at the cost of the...
View ArticleMahatma Gandhi's Ram-Rahim Approach for Inter-religious Harmony
by Jayanta Kumar DabMahatma Gandhi, during his public career, advanced inter-religious cooperation. He found that necessary because the core of religious teaching is love and kindness. According to...
View ArticleIt's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World: The Holy Cow in India and the Global...
by Partha S. GhoshWhy choose the title of a 1963 American comedy to headline this month's column? At first glance, the plot of It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World has nothing to do with what I am going to...
View ArticleWhy Higher Education should be Subsidised
by Khalid KhanThe ongoing protest against the hike in hostel fee has again triggered a series of questions on the Jawaharlal Nehru University which is closely related to the debate on privatisation of...
View Article