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Obama Needs a Leap of Faith on Iran

Even for a longtime compulsive Iran-watcher, this is feast to the mindā€”never in these three decades has the struggle within the US establishment been so fierce as it is today regarding America's...

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Crime 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...

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The 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 relationshipsā€”the relationships among various human beings at various levels, the...

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Jawaharlal 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...

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Adding 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),...

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Great 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...

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Excellent Commentary on Assam-Centre Relationship in a Crucial Period

BOOK REVIEWby Yogesh PuriGopinath Bardoloi, ā€œThe Assam Problemā€ and Nehru's Centre by Nirode K. Barooah; Bhabani Print and Publications, Guwahati; 2010; pp. 675.ā€œ...The subject I have touched in this...

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Natural 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...

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Look 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...

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We 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 ā€œsolidly behind the decisionā€, they said. The decision was...

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India'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...

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Why 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...

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Indian 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...

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Think 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...

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The 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,...

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Towards 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...

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Beyond Ritualism

We are approaching yet another Independence Day in three days timeā€”our sixtyseventh. Once again the Prime Minister will deliver his Independence Day address from the ramparts of the Red Fort in the...

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Syria 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...

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On 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...

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Liberated

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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