Nam's Relevance in the Emerging Multipolar World and India
The 16th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) has kick-started at Tehran amid an intense debate about the Movement‘s relevance after the end of the Cold War and bipolar world. The media and public...
View ArticleParliamentary Crisis and Judicial Silver-lining
For a week now the monsoon session of Parliament has been stalled by the principal Opposition party, the BJP, which is demanding in both the Houses that the PM should own up his moral responsibility...
View ArticleQuestions of Freedom and People's Emancipation — II
Kobad Ghandy from Tihar Jail is writing on the concept of freedom vis-à-vis present-day society as also in relation to a future just order, bringing out some causes for the failure of the erstwhile...
View ArticleDragging CAG in Political Crossfire Diminishes Government's Accountability to...
The Comptroller and Auditor General's Report on the Allocation of Coal Blocks has created a countrywide uproar and the working of Parliament has been stalled. Questions are being raised about the...
View ArticleA Parliament of Howls
So the republic's “main Opposition party,” the BJP, has no use for Parliament. A mere talking shop, its deliberations do not yield the result that the BJP wants. Exactly what the Maoists...
View ArticleWith Irresponsible MPs, Arrogant MLAs, We Stand as a Disgraced Nation
MPs deliberately wasting an entire session at a monetary cost alone of Rs 170 crore. Dozens of MLAs going on private pleasure trips abroad at public expense. Never has democracy been so openly...
View ArticlePreserve Radhakrishnan's Gift to the Nation
From N.C.'s Writings The news report, about a government move to oust the Indian Institute of Advanced Study (IIAS) from the Viceregal Lodge at Shimla and convert the mansion back into the summer...
View ArticleDr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan: A Teacher Par Excellence
On September 5 last week fell Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan's 124th birth anniversary. This day (September 5) is observed as Teacher's Day every year. We are carrying the following piece and reproducing...
View ArticleA Verdict in Gujarat, Silence over Delhi
Every time there is a conviction in the Gujarat riots case, I begin to hope that the day is not far when the real culprit, State Chief Minister Narendra Modi, will be brought to book. The 28-year-long...
View Article‘Jal Satyagraha' and the Road Ahead
On September 10 the Madhya Pradesh Government partially accepted the demands of the ‘Jal Satyagraha' in Khandwa district. Accordingly the water-level of Onkareshwar dam was almost immediately reduced...
View ArticleLesson of Kudankulam Protests
COMMUNICATION The recent mass protests against the Kudan-kulam nuclear plant in Tamil Nadu should convince the government of the need to seriously consider the implications of similar protests taking...
View ArticleOf Enduring Value
The entire monsoon session of Parliament having been washed out on account of the BJP's stand on the issue of ‘Coalgate', some sections of the media have echoed the PM to describe this as a blot on our...
View ArticleHigh Risks of Investing in Unstable Georgia
Georgia today is a picture of political and economic instability. The risks of investing in the country's economy are thus extremely high. Foreign analysts in particular have noted that the perspective...
View ArticleSyria: What Needs To Be Done
The international scenario continues to be dominated by the serious situation in Syria where the West (read the US) has been planning an intervention for long with help from strange bedfellows (from...
View ArticleHow About Abolishing Parliament? Loss is Nil. And Look at the Savings
IMPRESSIONS It's not just Parliament that is paralysed. India is paralysed. At one level, bills are stuck, files don't move. At another, eyes are shut, minds are closed. All that happens is:...
View ArticleTolstoy, Gandhi and the Peasant
The author, a distinguished Marxist ideologue, was a CPI leader about whom Jawaharlal Nehru had written that he was a Communist with a nationalist vision. He passed away in May 2003. This article,...
View ArticleRelevance of Gandhiji's Message Today
From N.C.'s Writings On October 2 this year India is celebrating the hundred and twentyfifth birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. The Government of India has set up a special committee studded with...
View ArticleMen, Machines and Mahatma
[On the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi's one hundred and fortythird birth anniversary on October 2, 2012, we are carrying the following article and reproducing N.C.'s piece that appeared in Mainstream...
View ArticlePolice and Communal Violence
by Asghar Ali Engineer It seems quite a stale topic as we know how the police behaves during communal distur-bances or even before and after that. Recently the Prime Minister too, during his inaugural...
View ArticleIndia-Pakistan: We Could Have Gone Farther
When Pakistan Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar suggests that they are willing to view Kashmir from “another angle” to tackle the thorniest problem and Indian Foreign Minister S.M. Krishna changes the...
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