BJP's yatra Failed to Realise its Objectives
From N.C.'s Writingswho has won, and who has lost? The President of the Bharatiya Janata Party, Dr Murli Manohar Joshi, can certainly claim that his mission was fulfilled when he unfurled the Tricolour...
View ArticleTroubled Times for the Constitutional Republic
Modiji became the Prime Minister of the Republic by virtue of two circumstances: one, having been declared the prime ministerial candidate by the Bharatiya Janata Party which won the elections, and,...
View ArticleIsraeli Killings in Gaza and Our Human Instincts
MUSINGSFirst things first. Why did the security forces kill an unarmed 14-year-old protestor in the Kashmir Valley? This boy was merely protesting against Israel's brutal killings of those hapless...
View ArticlePolitics of Kashmir
Article 370 is not meant to reflect the liberal tilt in the Indian Constitution. It is specific. It gives a special status to the State of Jammu and Kashmir—a status which the people of Jammu and...
View ArticleInstead of Dismantling We Need a Better Planning Commission
COMMUNICATIONOne of the most controversial decisions taken by the new government relates to the dismantling of the Planning Commission.While this had been talked about since the regime-change in Delhi,...
View ArticleRemembering Yojana Bhawan
While there is almost universal support for a change of style and focus in the Planning Commission, some of the language used and the attributes given to its earlier purpose and history are...
View ArticlePlanning in India
Ever since the ideas about planning took roots in India, certain political formations have been hostile to it. During the 1930s, the Hindu Mahasabha and, later, the Bharatiya Jan Sangh started...
View ArticleBJP's Electoral Setbacks and Headaches
EDITORIALThe electoral success of the joint front of the JD (U)-RJD-Congress in the recent Bihar by-elections has been able to establish not just the limits of the Modi wave but also the fallacy on the...
View ArticleIs Russia legally responsible in downing the Malaysian airliner?
by Anwar SadatDoes the incident of the downing of the Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777 MH-17 on July 18, 2014, flying from Amsterdam to Kualalampur, by the pro-Russian rebels operating along the...
View ArticleTribute: Balraj Puri
As Bipan Chandra (86) was, and will remain, to the history of anti-colonialism and communalism in India, Balraj Puri (86) was, and will remain, to the history of anti-feudalism and non-discriminatory...
View ArticleInvasion of Educational Universe by ‘Economics': A Civilisational Casualty?
AbstractIn the late 1950s there emerged (somewhat abruptly) a constricted one-dimensional economic interpretation of the role and purpose (hence the philosophy) of education largely from the standpoint...
View ArticleCongress Still Cannot look beyond the Dynasty, nor BJP beyond Sectarian Politics
IMPRESSIONSIt may seem too early, but the contours of the next general election are beginning to take shape. It will be the usual politics, played the usual dismal way. Those who saw in Narendra Modi's...
View ArticleFDI in Defence: Missing the Reality
by Vishnu BhagwatThe overblown hype over the increased FDI ceilings in the defence sector, touting that India would become a major arms exporter from currently being the top importer in the world, is...
View ArticleScrapping of Planning Commission isn't about Economics so much as BJP's...
by Rajrishi Singhalwhen Prime Minister Narendra Modi made his maiden Independence Day speech on August 15, one crisp announcement stood out amidst the torrent of usual homilies: he wanted to shut the...
View ArticleEarly Days of Planning : P.C. Mahalanobis
Ideology unites, bringing like-minded people under a common sky. But ideology also divides: friends, who have enjoyed one another's company for long years during their adolescence and early youth,...
View ArticlePlanning in a Modern Economy: Is its Role Over in India?
The Independence Day speech of the PM announced that the Planning Commission, set up in 1950, would be closed. Given that this institution has played a central role in the way the government functioned...
View ArticleTribute: Remembering Bipan Chandra
by Mridula Mukherjee and Aditya MukherjeeProfessor Bipan Chandra, affectionately called Bipan by his students and friends, legendary teacher, scholar and activist, passed away peacefully in his sleep...
View ArticleFirst Hundred Days of Modi Government
POLITICAL NOTEBOOKThe most striking feature of the first hundred days of the Modi Government that stands out in sharp relief is that the main plank of his election campaign—development—has taken a back...
View ArticleTo Sir, With Love
TRIBUTERemembering Bipan Chandra, the teacher, whose contributions to history were seminalby Mukul MangalikSadness gripped me when I heard of Professor Bipan Chandra's passing on August 30, 2014....
View ArticleTurning-point in Ukraine Crisis
It seems the turning-point in the Ukrainian crisis has finally arrived after more than four months of civil war in the country that has claimed thousands of innocent lives. When Ukraine President...
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