. . . Where the Darlings Lie Buried
The shivering cold nights of wintry Paushhave passed.And now the dew drops of a morninglike tears,shed by mothers, sisters, wives,as they gaze self-forgetfullyat the moundswhere their darlings lie...
View ArticleBangladesh: Amidst Ominous Forebodings
EDITORIALThe country has been witness to extraordinary developments in the last few days. The results of the elections to the five State Assemblies of Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Mizoram and...
View ArticleStatue of Unity: How the Varna Media is Loving It!
The man who belonged to the whole country has now been abducted by Narendra Modi, a pracharak of the RSS, the communal organisation who the Sardar fought against throughout his life. ..The only purpose...
View ArticleThe Politics of Exoneration
by Vasundhara SirnateIn leading discussions today in newspapers, political campaigns and on television, most party spokespersons opposing Narendra Modi as the prime ministerial candidate use one...
View ArticleBehind AAP's Bloodless Coup
MUSINGSIf the deadline for filing this column wasn't coming in the way, this Wednesday afternoon—the day I'm filing this column—I would have been at the AAP office in New Delhi's Connaught Place. In...
View ArticleElectoral Nightmares of an NGO
by Arun SrivastavaThe former BJP chief, Nitin Gadkari, has described the Aam Aadmi Party as Right-wing Maoism. Probably through coining this phrase he intended to send the message across that the AAP...
View ArticleVictory in Delhi
The performance of the Aam Aadmi Party in the just concluded Assembly elections in the Capital city of India has been, however you look at it, a phenomenal event, and very likely a watershed...
View ArticleNelson Mandela: His Life, his Thoughts
TRIBUTEby Vivek Kumar SrivastavaNelson Mandela was released from prison on February 11, 1990, a day of liberation of humanity. He had spent a long time in Robben Island. His life was full of struggles....
View ArticleHis Undying Conviction in the Human Spirit and Global Good
TRIBUTEI thank the President of the General Assembly for organising this ceremony.I extend a warm welcome to today's special guests from many walks of life. Those guests include Mr Enuga Reddy, a...
View ArticleLesson from the Last of the Trimurthis: Only the Selfless reach Greatness
IMPRESSIONSLike M.K. Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela marked his century with his imprint. While each of them played a seminal role in the shaping of his country's history, all of them...
View ArticleFifty Years Ago: Indian Women's Demonstration in Pretoria on Human Rights Day...
by E.S. ReddyIntroductionFifty years ago, on December 10, 1963, police unleashed dogs against Indian women who came to Pretoria in a peaceful demonstration to present a petition to the South African...
View ArticleDaunting Scene, Hopeful Signs
EDITORIALAfter having crossed half-a-century of its chequered existence last year, this journal is now entering its fiftysecond year at a time when the scenario around us has turned out to be more...
View ArticleNuclear Collusion
India's Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh inaugurated a nuclear power plant (NPP) at Gorakhpur in Haryana on January 13, 2014. This NPP is an invitation to disaster since it relies on canal water for...
View ArticleIndian Political Scene
The Indian political scene, even though fractured and patchy, is acquiring a shape of sorts. The emergence of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), founded by NGOs, sneeringly called the jholawalas, has changed...
View ArticleAAP in Perspective: Birth of the ‘New Alternative'
As we stepped into 2014, India seemed prepared for a real socio-political leap forward. More significantly, this leap forward is characterised by one single word: Optimism. And this time this optimism...
View ArticleReflections on Republic Day, 2014
IBleeding India, Burning India, Battered India, Beleaguered India, Bewildered India, Disintegrating India, Starving India, Dying India• in which democracy has become the government of the elite, by the...
View Article2014 — Prospects for India in the New Year
India has started its sixtyseventh year of freedom from British rule. Much has happened in India and the world over these past sixty-six years. India faces a general election in 2014. It seems to be at...
View ArticleSeventyfive Years of Planning in India (1938-2013)
by Debabrata BiswasNetaji Subhas Chandra Bose had the vision, with a mission, to establish socialism in India. Hence, even during the days of the freedom struggle he started planning for socialistic...
View ArticleNetaji on India's Struggle for Freedom
On January 23 this year falls Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's 117th birth anniversary. On this occasion we are carrying the following excerpts from Netaji's speeches for the benefit of our readers.The...
View ArticleLead, kindly Light....
From N.C.'s WritingsEvery year we dutifully go through the ritual of offering homage to Gandhiji on the day of his martyrdom.We shall once again be witnessing the ceremony on January 30 to be conducted...
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