In the Service of the Prime Minister
by Arun SrivastavaFrom funding the elections to choosing the prime ministerial candidate, the corporate sector has acquired enormous political power and has, in the process, emerged as the sole...
View ArticleThe Great Land Rush: Fake Consensus at All-party Meet
Farmers bodies are gearing up to oppose the Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill, 2011, which was supposedly amended to improve compensation to farmers under directions from Congress...
View ArticleAping the Adversary
From N.C.'s WritingsIt is surprising how intelligent people in politics sometimes take up positions which should logically belong to their adversaries.The Muslim League in 1940 picked up the so-called...
View ArticleBofors Deal, CBI, Coal Blocks Allotment
The spat between the Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over the new tranche of WikiLeaks, alleging former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi to have negotiated for the Swedish jet, is understandable...
View ArticleJustice Verma and his Legacy
TRIBUTEby Rajeev DhavanNo obituary notice can do justice to Justice J.S. Verma. A judge for over 25 years, Chief Justice of India (CJI), Chairman, National Human Rights Commission, (NHRC), Verma...
View ArticleWe Seldom Enforce Laws, That's Why: Rape Victims Are Still Victimised
IMPRESSIONSFrom every nook of India these days, we hear one question: Will anything come out of all this? It is actually more than a question. It is a cry from the heart. An anguished people, filled...
View ArticleFace of Multi-dimensional Crisis
The last few days' developments have caused serious concern in the country as a whole at one level while shocking the citizens' conscience and psyche at another. In such a situation one is left...
View ArticleSwami Vivekananda: A Life Divine
by Sudhanshu TripathiSwami Vivekananda endeavoured throughout his life to see God face to face and for this end he got the blessings of his guru, Swami Ramkrishnaparam-hans.Although apparently an...
View ArticleBiswas recommends Legal Protection for Women, not Caste-ending Democratic...
COMMUNICATIONA.K. Biswas is the only well-known person from elitist West Bengal, who is fighting for the SCs, STs and lowly OBCs. His paper ‘Is India the Most Dangerous Place for Dalit Women?' in...
View ArticleThe Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace [Prevention, Prohibition and...
by Nilima ChandiramaniThe Sexual Harassment of Women at Work-place [Prevention, Prohibition & Redressal] Bill, 2012 was passed by the Lok Sabha on September 3, 2012. It emanated from the Supreme...
View ArticleRights and Survival of the Girl Child and the Role of Panchayats
by Bidyut Mohanty and Bijayalaxmi NandaIntroductionIn a patriarchal society like India, the dominant ideology has been to devalue women in economic, social or political institutions. The normative...
View ArticleDalit Representation in Bollywood
The celebration of 100 years of Bollywood needs to be reviewed from a subaltern perspective. The general assumption that cinema is a normal mode to produce anecdotes to satisfy the entertainment...
View ArticleThe Significance of ‘May Day' and India's Response
by Anil Kumar Mohapatra‘Many meanings' have been associated with the ‘First of May' of which one that has received wide acceptance is that it reminds us of the importance of the ‘working class' to our...
View ArticleChicago shows the Path
by Vahidha NizamMay Day is the symbol of the struggle of the international proletariat for its emancipation. It is indissolubly bound up with the political significance of the working class' demand for...
View ArticlePak Scene Turning Increasingly Murkier
I have made nearly 200 trips, if not more, to Pakistan ever since I left Sialkot, my birthplace, way back in 1947 during partition. On each of my visits to that country, I have always admired the...
View ArticleBut for the Judges who Defend Fairness, Our Country would be Diminished
IMPRESSIONSThis piece was written before Justice J.S. Verma's death last month. However, as it is of considerable relevance it is being published now.We don't hear anything these days about Justice...
View ArticleShocking!
From N.C.'s WritingsThe gruesome killing of three—a girl and two young men—at Mehrana, a village near Mathura on the UP-Rajasthan border on March 27 has spread shock waves.The inhumanity of the...
View ArticleHow Best to Exploit Arctic Resources in National Interest
by M.N. SharmaAccording to foreign experts, Russian researchers have collected sufficient data through their probes to substantiate the boundaries of Russia's continental shelf. Following a...
View ArticleSupport Telangana State Demand
Leader and activists of all parties advocating a separate State of Telangana held a two-day dharna at New Delhi's Jantar Mantar on April 29 and 30, 2013 during the Parliament session to reiterate their...
View ArticleOn Sarabjit's Death, Chinese Intransigence
As we go to press, the body of Sarabjit Singh, the Indian death-row convict who spent 22 years in a Pakistani prison before he was brutally injured in the Kot Lakhpat Jail six days ago on April 26 (he...
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