Bhuvanesh Chaturvedi: Standard-bearer of Congress' Core Values
tributeHe was the quintessential backroom boy of Indian politics, and he came into his own during P.V. Narasimha Rao's premeirship.Bhuvanesh Chaturvedi, who died on March 2 in a Kota hospital after an...
View ArticleUkraine in Turmoil
Ukraine continues to be in the midst of a deep crisis provoked by the country's ultra-nationalists in connivance with the West. Opposition parties that captured power in Kiev through a coup do not know...
View ArticleEC Unfolds Poll Process
EDITORIALThe Election Commission unfolded on March 5 the process of holding the 16th Lok Sabha poll in the country. It will take place for the first time in nine phases—from April 7 to May 12; the...
View ArticlePoetics of Subalternity: Remembering Namdeo Laxman Dhasal (1949-2014)
TRIBUTEI vividly remember that sweaty summer afternoon of June 2007, when I had the opportunity to speak to maverick poet and activist Namdeo Dhasal who authored the powerful lines quoted below. I...
View ArticleObama piles Pressure on Russia
The US President, Barack Obama, reached out to China on March 10 to discuss the Ukraine situation. Notably, his phone conversation with President Xi Jinping is Obama's first such exchange with a world...
View ArticleWest Asia through the Lens of US media
MEDIAby Satraajit PalchoudhuryIn the lexicon of the US, West Asia is described as a troubled periphery. The US diplomats always look at their West Asian counterparts with a suspicious eye. The recent...
View ArticleWhat Textbooks do in Gujarat
MUSINGSBJP chief Rajnath Singh sounds like a typical bluff-master when he quips that he and his party are sorry for the ‘mistakes' committed against the Muslims. A bluff which is so horribly crude that...
View ArticleAmrita Sher-Gil
TRIBUTERenowned artist Amrita Sher-Gil's birth centenary took place last year. She was born on January 30, 1913 and passed away on December 5, 1941. The following tribute, by noted writer Anees Chishti...
View ArticleOn Dual Citizenship
The recent news that two MLAs of the Goa Legislative Assembly had registered their birth at the Civil Registration Office in Lisbon created a major controversy in this State. Goa was liberated from...
View ArticleThe Shashi Tharoor Case Reminds Us Again that Politics Seriously Diminishes...
IMPRESSIONSThis is a time when even his critics would feel sorry for Shashi Tharoor. He had a dream run for the first half-century of his life— progression through the very best of schools, a prized...
View ArticleEconomic Views of Arvind Kejriwal
communicationAll those who are striving to search for genuine alternatives to the capitalist path of development should be grateful to Arvind Kejriwal for very honestly and frankly informing them that...
View Article1933 of 2014! Breaking New Grounds! Confronting Communal Fascism !!
The Jew as well as the Christian, the Hindu no less than the Muslim ‘fundamentalist' plies an ideology of superior difference. Each confronts an inferior and threatening Other. Each engages in the...
View Article"Franchising" and "Profit" in Distance Education
by Sadhan MukherjeeThe UGC had put up a set of draft regulations on distance education in its website on December 19, 2013 seeking comments thereon by January 3, 2014. It has now reportedly finalised...
View ArticleGetting Ready for Lok Sabha Poll
From N.C.'s WritingsThe dramatic change-over of the government in Uttar Pradesh marks a veritable turning-point in our present-day politics. The ouster of Mulayam Singh Yadav and the installation of...
View ArticleThe Message from Kiev
Is Ukraine sending the world any fresh messages? There could be several. Beginning with the innocuous yet significant information provided by the BBC, the “tough” posturing attributed to important...
View ArticlePot Calling Kettle Black
Foreign rulers always claim that their regimen is benign and helps the subjects. The British are no exception. They say the same thing about their governance. But if their atrocities were to be...
View ArticleThis is Not Just about Cheering for the ‘Wrong' Cricket Team
The following is a press release issued an March 12, 2014 on behalf of the Pakistan-India Peoples' Forum for Peace and Democracy by PIPFPD, India by Anuradha Bhasin Jamwal and Asha Hans,...
View ArticleAn Indian General Election Like No Other
Look at it this way: the anti-colonial Indian national movement, a far more multi-faceted conjuncture than is sometimes propagated, did yield, even among its propertied leaderships, a genuine socialist...
View ArticleMaoist Strike in Election Season
EDITORIALIt's election season now and the selection of candidates is giving headaches to the leaderships of all the major political parties including and notably the BJP. The Modi juggernaut is moving...
View ArticleThe Squabble over Tickets carries a Tale: Our Politicians will go on Plundering
IMPRESSIONSHow passionate are our politicians about serving the nation! The scramble for tickets is always a feature of elections. But never have we witnessed the huddle and the muddle, the tumult and...
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