Obama Needs a Leap of Faith on Iran
Even for a longtime compulsive Iran-watcher, this is feast to the mindānever in these three decades has the struggle within the US establishment been so fierce as it is today regarding America's...
View ArticleCrime against Women in Bengal: A Tale of Politics, Patriarchy and Misogyny
WOMEN'S WORLDby Nirupam HazraAccording to the National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB) report, 30,942 cases of crime against women were reported in 2012 from Bengal, the highest in the country. Bengal...
View ArticleThe Essence of History: Four Crucial Relationships
The history of the earth since the advent of humankind on it can be largely understood as the history of four crucial relationshipsāthe relationships among various human beings at various levels, the...
View ArticleJawaharlal Nehru and Kashmir
by Mohd Yousuf DarJawaharlal Nehru, the great Indian political leader, was the first Prime Minister of independent India. Nehru was an upholder of some of the concrete political values. He believed in...
View ArticleAdding up Opinion amidst Shifting Sands
With Precedents in Mind One operative aspect of David Thompson's assessment of the re-drawing of Europe's map in the 19th century was that it brought a disadvantaged ethnic group (outside Russia),...
View ArticleGreat Britain under the Spreading Fangs of Caste
Part-ICaste in New Home In the voyage of caste to the Western hemi-sphere, the first port of call was Britain. The Hindus take pride that they did not conquer any nation with sword. But they exported...
View ArticleExcellent Commentary on Assam-Centre Relationship in a Crucial Period
BOOK REVIEWby Yogesh PuriGopinath Bardoloi, āThe Assam Problemā and Nehru's Centre by Nirode K. Barooah; Bhabani Print and Publications, Guwahati; 2010; pp. 675.ā...The subject I have touched in this...
View ArticleNatural Disasters: Lessons from Uttarakhand
by Saumitra MohanThe recent cloudburst in Uttarakhand and subsequent natural disaster in the form of massive inundation should make many of us sit up and take notice. It is true that notwithstanding...
View ArticleLook beyond Hyderabad for the Growth of Telangana
Telangana is set to become the 29thĀ State of India. After much dilly-dallying the Congress Party finally approved the formation of Telangana State but before that there was a lot of heart-burn among...
View ArticleWe can do with Structured New States, but not Ad-hoc Partitions of India
IMPRESSIONSThe usual doublespeak accompanied the Congress party's green signal to Telangana. The party's entire rank-and-file in Andhra was āsolidly behind the decisionā, they said. The decision was...
View ArticleIndia's Statehood Cauldron: From Simmer to Boil
When Dr Manmohan Singh ascends the ramparts of the iconic Red Fort on August 15, 2013 to unfurl the national flag on the 67th Independence Day of the country, he would be announcing the creation of the...
View ArticleWhy CPI changed its Stand on Telangana's Statehood
by S. Sudhakar ReddyThe decision on Telangana's Statehood by the core committee of the UPA-II and Congress Working Committee has became a controversy in some circles. The CPI, BJP, NCP, BSP, and...
View ArticleIndian Economy and the Crisis of a Borrowed Development Strategy
Introduction: The Current SituationThe economic growth rate has been falling continuously while the consumer price inflation, current account deficit in the external sector and fiscal deficit in the...
View ArticleThink Big and Act Boldly
by N.V.K. MurthyThe country will soon be celebrating the 66th anniversary of its freedom. Much has happened since India became independent. Great strides have been made in the realm of...
View ArticleThe Partition Story
Partition of the Indian subcontinent is 66 years' old. On August 14, 1947, the states of India and Pakistan came into being in the wake of division. Even today they have not settled down as neighbours,...
View ArticleTowards New Horizons
From N.C.'s WritingsThe remembrance of the day when the sun set on the British Raj in this land of ours is more than a mere ritual to be gone through year after year. No doubt it is the day when one...
View ArticleBeyond Ritualism
We are approaching yet another Independence Day in three days timeāour sixtyseventh. Once again the Prime Minister will deliver his Independence Day address from the ramparts of the Red Fort in the...
View ArticleSyria and US National Legislation: Whither Obama?
by T.R. ChoudhuryAs the situation in and around Syria worsens, the possibility of the US' armed intervention in that country is looming large on the horizon. Washington is backed fully by the British...
View ArticleOn the Surface They Win and They Lose, but in Real Terms, They All Lose
Kerala has for long been the sick State of India, politics for the sake of politics dominating all of life, traditional strengths ebbing away and new strengths finding no avenues to develop. It is a...
View ArticleLiberated
The parched earth fissured;the solitary mynahwith its open beaklooked sky-ward.There was no cloud in sight,the sun shonerelentlessly on and onas we prayed for some rainto relieve this blighted pain.Yet...
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