Indian Democracy: Debt to Jawaharlal Nehru
by Mridula MukherjeeThe Nehru era ended half-a-century ago, bringing to a close the age of innocence and excitement marked by the epic struggle for freedom's tryst with destiny and the first phase of...
View ArticleRemembering Nehru
“Milton! Thou shouldst be living at this hour:England hath need of thee: she is a fenOf stagnant waters....we are selfish men;O raise us up, return to us again;And give us manners, virtue, freedom,...
View ArticleTwenty Years After
From N.C.'s WritingsIn the sultry summer morning of May 27, 1964, when Jawaharlal Nehru left the land of his birth and its people whose affection he earned in abundance, nobody in this wide world of...
View ArticleNehru for Today
May 27 this year marked Jawaharlal Nehru's fiftieth death anniversary. On this occasion we remember him by reproducing the following excerpts from his speeches and writings. We are also reproducing...
View ArticleA Nightmare Materialises in India: Hindutva - Capitalism Takes Power
The Lok Sabha election has produced what was easily the worst conceivable outcome by giving an outright majority to the Bharatiya Janata Party under a man who is widely believed to have been complicit...
View ArticleSome Thoughts on Foreign Policy of the New Government
Relations with NeighboursStrengthening relations with neighbours should continue to be accorded the highest priority in the foreign policy of the Narendra Modi Government. For, a country is judged by...
View ArticleTeam Modi Takes Charge
EDITORIALWith Narendra Modi sworn in as the PM of the BJP-led NDA Government at the Centre on May 26, a new era of post-independence history has unfolded before our very eyes.Indeed the mandate in the...
View ArticleMore Thefts of Photos and Text
At http://www.thehoot.org/web/Stealing... I wrote about how Inquilab and Madhyamam used, without my knowledge and without crediting me, photographs taken by me. Other thieves have crawled out of the...
View ArticleQuestions About New Government's Policies
As India's new government speeds up the implementation of a selective agenda, several questions need to be raised about the direction and content of new policy decisions and likely decisions. Let's...
View ArticleHandloom: An Endangered Industry
book reviewby Imtiaz Ahmad AnsariEntangled Yarns: Banaras Weavers and Social Crisis by Vasanthi Raman; Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla; 2013; pp. X+126 (Hardcover).The book Entangled Yarns:...
View ArticleThe Left Debacle In Lok Sabha 2014: A Critical Overview
by Amrita DattaMarx was right—history does repeat itself, first as tragedy, and then as farce. The CPI-M's unsettling performance in the Lok Sabha Election 2009 was tragedy impending; premonition was...
View ArticleLoss of an Ideological Battle
As people committed to Centrist politics, the victory of the BJP in the parliamentary elections has saddened many of us. That in no way means that we are making a case for the existing Congress. Not...
View ArticleLeft Forces should Awake now before it is Too Late
communicationDespite all the recent setbacks suffered by the Left forces, in the general elections and before this, two facts cannot be denied. Firstly, it is the politics of the rights of the poor,...
View ArticleOn C. Rajeswara Rao's birth centenary
Communist stalwart C. Rajeswara Rao's birth centenary took place last week. While remembering CR on this occasion, we are publishing the following articles by the former CPI General Secretary and...
View ArticleRemembering Tiananmen
No miracle will ever cleanThe memory, bestial and obscene,Of those who, having fouled their trust,Grew warped with dread and powerlust—And ordered fire on the square,On unarmed people everywhere,Brave...
View ArticleContours of China Crisis
From N.C.'s WritingsTwentyfive years ago, N.C. had left for China when the Tiananmen bloodbath took place on June 4, 1989. Apart from his despatches which appeared in The Times of India on the tragedy...
View ArticleIndia and Sri Lanka: Emerging Parallels
As the dust over the 2014 Lok Sabha elections settles down and the stock-taking exercise comes to an end, a question that emerges is if for the first time in republican India the Muslim community...
View ArticleRapes, Gang-rapes, Prostitution
MUSINGSRapes and gang-rapes! Sexual maniacs on the prowl! Perversion hitting all possible quarters—right from the rural to the urban belts, from the top brass to the lowest rung!What's shocking is this...
View ArticleThreat to Syria Averted
This piece was sent before the election to Syria's presidency.President Bashar Assad of Syria will soon be seeking a new term of office. He appears to have overcome the threat to his regime from...
View ArticleDissecting the Rout of the Congress
This is not the first time that the Congress has been decimated, getting only 44 seats in the 543-member Lok Sabha. The party met more or less a similar fate in the 1977 election held after the...
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