Far Beyond the Media Hype
EDITORIALwith yesterday's polling, when voters in 89 constituencies spread over nine States and Union Territories exercised their franchise, the seventh phase of the 16th Lok Sabha elections is over....
View ArticleToo many as Primus Inter Pares
by Mouli DeyThe following piece was written and sent to us sometime ago but could not be used earlier due to unavoidable reasons. However, despite some of the contents of the article being dated, the...
View ArticleThe Legacy for Tomorrow
From N.C.'s WritingsLenin once asked a group of Soviet students as to whom they regarded as the greatest literary figure of Russia. “Mayakovsky,” they replied. “Yes, but what about Pushkin?” asked...
View ArticleRural Reconstruction and Education — Tagore's Views
[May 9 this year, that is, Baisakh 25, 1421 (Bengali calendar), marks Rabindranath Tagore's 153rd birth anniversary. On this occesion we are publishing the following piece and reproducing an article by...
View ArticleTest of Democratic Values
I get many telephone calls almost every day from Pakistan and a few from Bangladesh to inquire about the polling in the Lok Sabha elections. Their fear is that Narendra Modi might be India's next Prime...
View ArticleSuggestions to the Victor of General Elections - 2014
The ensuing general elections (GE) have witnessed the participation of a large number of parties and political outfits, with many significant and important players in the fray. However, the central...
View ArticleModi Admires Obama's Hunt for Bin Laden
Three different interpretations can be given to the sensational remarks on Saturday (April 26) regarding underworld don Dawood Ibrahim by the Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate...
View ArticleSecularism in the Valley
In this season of hurt sentiments, it is my turn—and with emphasis. It has been declaimed lately from a broad-chested but small-minded podium that Kashmir, pointedly meaning the Valley, has been turned...
View ArticleWhy Banaras is Uncomfortable with Modi
Narendra Modi, the new mascot of the Sangh Parivar, has chosen Varanasi as his spring-board for his prime ministerial ambition in 2014. Nineteen ninetynine saw Lucknow sending Atal Behari Vajpayee on...
View ArticleIndia at EI Dorado's Doorstep?: May 16 will show the way
As India comes to the final phase of the 16th parliamentary elections, breathless hype across the subcontinent leads many to believe that we are close to the doorstep of El Dorado, which unfolds a...
View ArticleIn the Grip of Fear and Uncertainty
EDITORIALThe nine-phase elections for the 16th Lok Sabha are drawing to a close.In the penultimate phase, that took place yesterday, 64 seats spread over seven States went to polls, and the percentage...
View Article52 per cent Seats with 31 per cent Vote-share
COMMUNICATIONThe fact that the BJP has been able to get an absolute majority with just 31 per cent of the total vote-share in the recent Lok Sabha elections has generated a lot of interest. It has been...
View ArticlePeople Will Hold Them Accountable
COMMUNICATIONThough the BJP has romped to a Lok Sabha majority albeit with “only” 31 per cent vote-share, the huge victory of the BJP is uncontestable within the parameters of the existing electoral...
View ArticleGilbert Etienne
TRIBUTEby Jayshree SenguptaGilbert Etienne, 86, Professor Emeritus of Development Economics, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, who used to write regularly in this...
View ArticleJawaharlal Nehru as a Kashmiri
by Mohd Yousuf DarJawaharlal Nehru is widely acclaimed as the architect of modern India. He played an important role in the long struggle for national freedom, and later as the greatest political...
View ArticleNehru's Vision, its Development and Dismantling
by Nirupam SenThis subject can be adequately addressed only in a full book. In a short article I can only highlight some features of relevance to our times. Shortly after Jawaharlal Nehru's birth...
View ArticleNehru and the Peasantry
When I met the Panchayat Pradhan of the village, a sprightly young man in his thirties on a dusty bazaar site about 40 km away from Banaras, I could see his self-confidence. He came from a Dalit...
View ArticleDon't Deny Nehru's Great Contributions
In normal times, there should be no necessity of re-emphasising Jawaharlal Nehru's many-sided invaluable contributions. But these are not normal times. In recent times one has seen very strong efforts,...
View ArticleNehru's Legacy in the Present Juncture: Assessing Economic Successes and...
Nehru, India's first Prime Minister, passed away fifty years back in 1964. It is time that an objective assessment is made of his contri-butions to the nation at that critical juncture of its...
View ArticleJawaharlal Nehru: The Architect of Modern India
Jawaharlal Nehru, Mahatma Gandhi's second-in-command in the country's freedom struggle and the architect of post-independence India, passed away fifty years ago on May 27, 1964. His contributions...
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