Trading Cattle to Bangladesh
Bengali society is at risk today, thanks to the political parties. I will discuss one of the issues which devalues democracy. The Statesman has reported a number of times about cattle theft to...
View ArticleClimate, Culture, Cosmopolitanism: The Bangiya Sahitya Parishad, Shillong
by Nabanipa BhattacharjeeClime as MuseSurrounded by lush green hills, Shillong, the capital city of Meghalaya, is widely known for its salubrious climate and natural beauty. As one of oldest hill...
View ArticleDelhi fails to win Japan's ‘Nuclear Trust'
When joint statements after high-level visits become verbose, a sense of uneasiness arises: is it an attempt to make a mountain out of a mole-hill? That impression becomes unavoidable when one reads...
View ArticleWhat about 2014?
by Arko DasguptaIf people are to be believed, 2014 is slated to be a year of much significance for India and its citizens. What makes 2014 so special? Is it the numbers at play? They add up to 7, which...
View ArticleAcid Test for Mulayam
From N.C.'s WritingsVaranasi and Kanpur are the danger signals which Mulayam Singh Yadav can hardly afford to underplay. The significant impact that was made on the Indian political scene by his...
View ArticleWield the Broom to Clean the Minds of the People
by Jeevesh GuptaThe difference between saying and doing is infinite, if you really look at the state of our nation today. A Central Parliament along with the Legislative Assemblies and Councils are...
View ArticleSTR and Mode of Information, Crisis in Modern Thought, Nature of Working Class
COMMUNICATIONRecently, I had a chance to glimpse portions of a fascinating book by Anil Rajimwale under the title The Particle and Philosophy in Crisis: Towards a Mode of Information. I am yet to fully...
View ArticleUnscrambling the Electoral Discourse
We, among the aam aadmi and the middle classes, have habitually seethed over the daily pinpricks that immiserate us. Yet at the defining moment we are caught in two minds. We are watching the AAP and...
View ArticleInterrogating the Anti-graft Platform
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has announced its intention to fight against corrupt leaders from all parties in the coming general election. So, anti-corruption seems to be its main plank since it has not...
View ArticleConferring Rights on Citizens: Laws and their Implementation
I. Policy ContradictionsThe UPA Government at the Centre, dominated by the Congress party, has followed during the last nine years a dual policy. On one side, a policy of marketisation, privatisation,...
View ArticleCommunalism will be the Poll Plank
The Congress is a late starter. It firmed up its campaign for the April-May parliamentary elections only two months ago. The party was complacent till it was woken up by the dismal defeats in four of...
View ArticleThe Long-term Goal of PADS
A dozen or so people met on October 20, 2013 to speak of the recent violence against Muslims in Muzaffarnagar and to discuss the possibility of preventing such violence. That was the first meeting of...
View ArticleOther Countries do something about Racism; Our Indifference Grievously Harms...
IMPRESSIONSThe question is not whether India is racist; the question is to what extent India is racist. Biases of a racial kind have always been a feature of our public life. Sometimes they were...
View ArticleAAP Must Clear Policy Confusion: Running a Government is a Sober and Serious...
It is hoped that the Delhi Law Minister has understood Article 227 of the Constitution of India providing for the separation of powers between the executive and the judiciary. He, along with Chief...
View ArticleFDCA's Appeal to Restore Peace and Harmony in Muzaffarnagar and Shamli
The following is an appeal addressed on behalf of the Forum for Democracy and Communal Amity (FDCA) to the Union Home Minister, Sushil Kumar Shinde, and the UP Chief Minister, Akhilesh Yadav, for...
View ArticleDirect Assault on Democracy
EDITORIAL”My heart bleeds to see what is happening in the House. It is sad for democracy to see that such things are happening even after all appeals for calm.”That was PM Manmohan Singh's reaction...
View ArticleAn Open letter to Sonia Gandhi
This letter was written quite sometime ago, on December 24, 2013, but could not be used earlier for unavoidable reasons. However, its contents have not become irrelevant even today. Hence it is being...
View ArticleDebate on Workers' Consciousness: Further Contribution
I am thankful to Paresh Chattopadhyaya (PC) to have responded to my article and to express his reactions frankly. (Mainstream, December 28, 2013) I read his ‘Communication' very carefully, and went...
View ArticleNepal: A Neighbourhood Story
The Himalayan cultural topography, which sparks out loudly its colours in the society, politics and day-to-day life in Kathmandu valley and around, has returned to the task of drafting a republican...
View ArticleContemporaneity of the 1930s: Some Aspects of the Lives of Low-Caste Farm...
REVIEW ARTICLEThe Social and Economic Conditions of the Lower Agricultural Castes in the Early 20th Century (A Survey of the Kotch State, Rajputana) by Ram Pratap Gondel; New India Publications, New...
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