Marginalised Groups and Inclusive Growth
The Concept of Inclusive GrowthThe concept of inclusive growth, as stated in the 12th Plan document, focuses on the growth process that is broad-based or in which wider sections of the population,...
View ArticleA Straw in the Wind
It appears that the magic of Prime Minister Narendra Modi is waning. His Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has met a reverse in the bypolls. Out of the 18 seats in Punjab, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka and...
View ArticlePreserve Radhakrishnan's Gift to the Nation
From N.C.'s WritingsSeptember 5 this year marked Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan‘s 126th birth anniversary. Every year September 5 is observed as Teacher's Day in honour of the second President of our...
View ArticleMeenakashipuram Conversion and National Upheaval
Meenakshipuram, a village in Ramanatha-puram (now Theni) district in Tamil Nadu, was the epicentre of an extraordinary social, political and religious upheaval in 1981. A large number of men and women...
View ArticleIrom Sharmila, Released by Law, is Rearrested by Police
IMPRESSIONSVietnam: the Mai Lai Massacre is known as “the most shocking episode of the Vietnam war”. One morning in 1968, a platoon of US soldiers entered the sprawling Vietnamese village, saw men and...
View ArticleWhy Japan Matters for India
by Ramakrushna PradhanUndoubtedly, India and Japan are friends from antiquity; share a superb and timeless bonding free of any kind of dispute—ideological, cultural and territorial. And the naturalness...
View ArticleIndia, Japan at the Global Crossroads
Key diplomatic exchanges or matters of state are almost axiomatically obscured from the world. Reportage does not necessarily sharpen our flair for analysis or speculation. Yet it could provide the...
View ArticlePositive Signs amid Persisting Negative Features
EDITORIALIt is a welcome sign indeed that politics has taken a back-seat while confronting nature's fury in Kashmir. As floods ravage and cause havoc in large parts of the Valley including the capital...
View ArticleVoters Realise Dangers of Communal Politics
MUSINGSFinally, the people of this country have woken up! The by-poll results are enough to show that we, as an electorate, have matured and can see, rather foresee, the dangers of communal politics....
View ArticleTribute to Saifuddin Choudhury
TRIBUTEFormer CPI-M MP Saifuddin Choudhury, 62, breathed his last in a South Delhi hospital at 8.30 pm on September 14, 2014 after a prolonged battle with cancer. He is survived by his wife Ruksana, a...
View ArticleMoney-Muscle Power in Student Union Elections and National Politics
by Kamal Kumar and Alisha DhingraStudent politics is seen as one of the interesting and lively aspects of the student's campus-life, something which leverage and shape her/his future personality as...
View ArticleTo be ‘Modern' and ‘Hindu': Mobilising Ayurveda for the Nation
by Shivangi JaiswalThe decades spanning the early 20th century in India were marked by competing claims on ideas, identities and symbols characterising reformist campaigns of the time. In this context,...
View ArticleRevisiting Development and Social Justice Agenda
These are difficult times for social activists in India. These are also times when an honest appraisal of previous work—achievements as well as limitations—is needed, as also fresh thinking about the...
View ArticleThe Difficulty of being a Hindu
by Baisali Mohanty“Hindustan is a Hindu nation... Hindutva is the identity of our nation and it (Hinduism) incorporates others (religions) in itself,” words of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief,...
View ArticleRule by the Majority
Where is India, now that the BJP has been in power in Delhi for a period? Bharat Bhushan, writing in the Business Standard, uses the excellent expression “ambient intolerance” to describe our present...
View ArticleBlindman's Buff
From N.C.'s WritingsWhile the national and international focus is naturally rivetted upon the uncertain future of the Charan Singh Government, the significant point is that every one of the major...
View ArticlePandits hit Politics in Kashmir
Kashmiri Pandits, like Punjabi Hindus, have no homeland to return. Both want to go back. But the militancy that ousted them is still strong. On the top it is the local population which has been...
View ArticleObama Launches His War, Finally
The United States President, Barack Obama, unveiled in a major speech on September 10 his strategy to “degrade and ultimately destroy” the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. The strategy has no timeline...
View ArticleSacked by Rajiv, A.P. Venkateshwaran remained a Legend: Remembering a...
TRIBUTERetired Foreign Secretary A.P. Ventakesh-waran's passing a few days ago attracted widespread attention. The main reason was that it recalled Rajiv Gandhi's arrogant way of belittling others. His...
View ArticleWhich side are you, Mr Rajnath Singh?: An open letter to the Union Home Minister
Rajnath Singhji,While talking to The Indian Express (New Delhi, August 24, 1914) you described yourself as a “Swayamsewak of the RSS”. As the Home Minister of the country you must have taken oath to...
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