Keyhole Diplomacy Doesn't Suit India
In an era of globalisation, it is simply not possible for any country to consciously stay out and keep looking in through a keyhole and plunge into selective engagement with the inmates inside the...
View ArticleLeaders beyond Stereotype
From N.C.'s WritingsIn the midst of the pressure and pulls of contemporary politics, certain significant developments seem to have escaped notice. Some of these are too conspicuous, and yet one hardly...
View ArticleMirror... Mirror on the Wall!: Who Were Those ‘Bad Elements', Mr Bhagwat?
‘Cat drinks milk with closed eyes and thinks the world is not watching it.'(Marathi Proverb)IRare have been the occasions in recent times when the RSS, with all its anushangik (affiliated)...
View ArticleWelcome Telangana!
This article was written much before Telangana became a separate State of the Indian Union. It is being published now as its contents continue to be relevant today.Major Andhra politicians are in a...
View ArticleLinguism: Nehru, Patel, Rajaji were Ignored, Feroze Gandhi's Words have Gone...
IMPRESSIONSAndhra Pradesh was born after Potti Sriramulu sacrificed his life in 1952. A fulfilment achieved at such high cost is now abandoned to be replaced by two different entities. Linguism's fatal...
View ArticleEmergence of Regional Identities
India may not be coming apart at the seams but the polity is. Union Ministers are quarrelling among themselves. Feuds of bureaucrats are coming out in the open. Even intelligence agencies, the...
View ArticleThe Politics of Alliance of States
by Arun SrivastavaThe Eastern Bloc was the former communist states of Central and Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union and the countries of the Warsaw Pact. In 1922, the RSFSR, the Ukrainian SSR, the...
View ArticleArmed Rebellion in Ukraine and its Implications
Ukraine, with a troubled history, particularly during the past two decades following the Soviet Union's dissolution, has witnessed yet another coup engineered by armed ultra-nationalists and fascists....
View ArticleAddressing National Imperatives
As of now, there appears to be between 200 and 250 Lok Sabha seats outside the influence of the two principal coalition configurations of the NDA and the UPA. Most of the south and east, with the...
View ArticleTwelve Years after Gujarat 2002
EDITORIALHave the Gujarat riots of 2002 been consigned to the dustbin of history? This question assumes importance in the context of the somersault of Ramvilas Paswan, the LJP supremo. In the wake of...
View ArticleTribute: P.C. Joshi
TributeOn March 2, 2014, passed away in New Delhi Dr Puran Chand Joshi, the eminent social scientist. He was a Social Science researcher and teacher, policy-adviser as well as social activist, scholar...
View ArticleReports of Large-scale Deaths of Students in Bapu Asaram's Schools
COMMUNICATIONAccording to reports in two leading Hindi newspapers Nai Duniya and Dainik Jagran, dated February 19, 2014, a parliamentary committee has found that 800 children in various schools...
View ArticleStop Pentavalent Vaccine Before It Is Too Late
The introduction of pentavalent vaccine in place of DPT vaccine in India's universal immunisation programme has become one of the most controversial public health decisions in recent times. The...
View ArticleThe Subaltern Can Speak
by l.k. sharmaThe Jaipur Literature Festival has not just grown; it has evolved into an Indian show. The global meets local will be one way of describing this transformation. The literature in Indian...
View ArticlePeople who Shame the Country become Heroes at Home. What's this Democracy Worth?
Everyone was shocked by the recent crimina-lities in Parliament, but was anyone surprised? And does anyone believe that this is the last time such scenes of shame will be seen in the House? Our...
View ArticleGlorifying Motherhood: The Power of Identity
by ambika duttaMotherhood has always been glorified in the Indian social reality from the ancient times. From her image as Goddess to as Motherland or to a women's role as mother; she as Maa-Mai-Mother...
View ArticleRamifications of Domestic Violence
by Parul Jain1. IntroductionDomestic violence, also known as domestic abuse, spousal abuse, battering, family violence, and intimate partner violence (IPV), is defined as a pattern of abusive...
View ArticleDismantling Meta-Narratives: Women, Development and Globalisation
by manisha mishra“A girl whose spirits have not been dampened by inactivity, or innocence tainted by false shame, will always be a romp...”Mary Wollstonecraft (A Vindication of the Rights of Women,...
View ArticleOminous Portents
Another Lok Sabha, 15th in the series, has concluded its five-year tenure. Whatever business that was transacted in the House was, indeed, exasperating and raucous. Unfortunately the House representing...
View ArticleDouble-Speak
From N.C.'s WritingsOn September 15, the Prime Minister of India met a gathering of eminent academics from a number of seats of learning in the Capital—Delhi University, Jamia Millia, Jawa-harlal Nehru...
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