Sarabjit's Death: HRCP urges Justice, Steps to Contain Damage
On May 2, 2013 the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) demanded action against all those who played any part in the assault on the Indian prisoner, Sarabjit Singh, who died in a hospital on May...
View ArticleRabindranath Tagore: A Tribute from Bangladesh
May 9 this year marked Rabindranath Tagore's 152nd birth anniversary. On this occasion we are reproducing the following poem by a Bangladesh poet that was first published in Mainstream fortytwo years...
View ArticleWest Bengal: Deadly Investment that Ruined the Poor
by Arun SrivastavaGoebbels has come alive in West Bengal. The collapse of the Saradha Chit Fund, which has ruined lakhs of poor people of Jharkhand, Bihar, Bengal, Assam and Odisha, has exposed the...
View ArticleCommunal Harmony and Freedom Movement in Mewat
The one hundred and fiftysixth anniversary of the Great Indian Revolt of 1857 has been observed this month. It began in Meerut on May 6, 1857 though the spark of the Revolt was lit by Mangal Pandey at...
View ArticleMarx's Discovery of the Most Revolutionary Class
ON MARX'S BIRTH ANNIVERSARYOn May 5 this year was observed the one hundred and ninetyfifth birth anniversary of Karl Marx. On this occasion, while remembering the immortal revolutionary, we are...
View ArticleEcuador: Rafael Correa's Victory and Unchallenged Triumph of Latin American Left
“Citizens will be in charge, not the ‘Capital',” said President Rafael Correa after being elected the President of Ecuador for the third consecutive time with an impressive margin. Rafael Correa...
View ArticleMoscow Reserved on Rare Japanese Visitor
For a rare visit by a Japanese Prime Minister to Russia after a glaring gap of a decade, Shinzo Abe himself set three benchmarks as he set out from Tokyo on April 28. He said he sought to establish a...
View ArticleWhen Will They Ever Learn? Bringing American War Crimes in Vietnam to Light
REVIEW ARTICLEKill Anything that Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam by Nick Turse; Metropolitan Books, New York; 2013; pages 370; $ 30.00, hardcover.The Vietnam War is a case of state terrorism on...
View ArticleAfghanistan: India on the Right Course
On an early September 2002 morning, as breakfast was being served in the cavernously high-ceilinged dining hall of Hotel Inter-continental in the devastated capital city of Kabul, a Pakistani turned...
View ArticleHave Indian Troops Abandoned Indian Territory?
The incursion by Chinese troops into the Daulat Beg Oldi (DBO) sector of Ladakh on April 15, 2013 by erecting and occupying tents was responded to on the ground by Indian troops erecting tents nearby...
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India's (non-)Response in Ladakh
Regulars of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) of China intruded ten kms deep into Indian territory in the Daulat Beg Oldi sector in eastern Ladakh on April 14/15. (Actually there is some confusion...
View ArticlePakistan: Reporter's Jottings
From N.C.'s WritingsA week's trip to Pakistan to attend a workshop on South Asian problems—part of the emerging people-to-people movement—may not have been adequate to get a comprehensive view of...
View ArticleChanakya and Machiavelli Rolled into One
This piece was written quite sometime ago. It is being published now as it still retains its relevance.EpigraphI have no spurTo prick the sides of my intent, but onlyVaulting ambition, which o'erleaps...
View ArticleKarnataka lies Wounded by Corruption, Communalism; Voters are Helpless
IMPRESSIONSKarnataka votes today. If this election is different from previous ones, it is because the tragedy that has overtaken the State stands out more starkly today than before. Led by some wise...
View ArticleQuiet Changeover in Karnataka?
The acquittal of Sajjan Kumar, a Congress leader from Delhi, was bound to create a furore because he has come to symbolise the anti-Sikh riots in 1984. Even though 29 years have lapsed since the...
View ArticleHuman Rights Activists and Death Penalty
The morality of death penalty has again come to the forefront by the latest Supreme Court judgment rejecting Bhullar's plea for mercy. I am against death penalty as such for anyone. But politicians...
View ArticleSupreme Court Judgment on Kudankulam Plant Needs Full-bench Review
COMMENTARYObserverThe judgment delivered on May 6 (2013) by a two-judge Bench of the Supreme Court is shocking and anti-people. Unless the full-Bench of the Supreme Court hastens to correct it, it will...
View ArticleOn SC's Plainspeak, Fresh Revelations
COMMENTARYThe Supreme Court has come out with several strictures against the CBI and PMO on May 8 while charging the UPA Government with having changed the ‘heart of the report' on the investigation...
View ArticleCongress Wrests Power in Karnataka
The results of the Karnataka Assembly polls are out: the BJP has suffered a rout losing power in the only State of South India where it had struck deep roots. The Congress has registered a...
View ArticleRapid Spread of Liquor Vends Increases Violence against Women
COMMUNICATIONWhile various aspects of violence against women have been widely discussed in recent times, one very significant reason for the worsening of this problem has not received the necessary...
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