Unmasking the Modi Regime in US
MUSINGSTill about yesterday I sat wondering where are those Indians or Americans who can dare talk of the dark realities, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi leaves for his tour to America. Well, here...
View ArticleGandhi, Ayyankali and Arundhati Roy
by Sukumaran C.V.Delivering the Mahatma Ayyankali address at an international seminar on “Re-imagining Struggles at the Margins: A History of the Unconquered and the Oppressed” organised by the Mahatma...
View ArticleMissing the Woods for the Trees: Gandhiji and Arundhati Roy's Polemic
by Suresh JnaneswaranThe controversy of Ms Arundhati Roy's Mahatma Ayyankali address at Thiruvanantha-puram refuses to subside. It has assumed a momentum of its own and moving around the globe on its...
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Inevitability of Gandhian Village Reconstruction in Rural India
by G. Gangadhara RaoIntroductionMany thinkers doubt the economic ideology of Gandhi, since they believe that it is not a suitable method either as a policy or as an approach. But gradually this way of...
View ArticleEmpire Talks Back
Go back a thousand years or so,And you will find a golden bird;She chirps aloft the Himalayas,And spreads her wing so wideThat a nation forms from headTo foot, and from side to side,Drawn with streaks...
View ArticleEditors Guild Condemns Attack on Rajdeep Sardesai
The Editors Guild on September 29 strongly condemned the attack on senior journalist and its former President, Rajdeep Sardesai, by a group claiming to be supporters of Prime Minister Narendra Modi....
View ArticleThe Real Reasons for Mahatma Gandhi's Greatness
Mahatma Gandhi is today widely accepted internationally as one of the most admired leaders of the 20th century with an enduring contribution to world peace. However, increasingly his legacy is being...
View ArticlePolice Encounter Guidelines: Reaffirmation of Rule Of Law
by Sanjay ParikhThe Supreme Court, in a petition filed by the People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), has laid down as many as 16 guidelines which have to be treated as law declared under Article...
View ArticleCows, Candles and the Akhand Rashtra: Being Dinanath Batra
Commentaryby Navneet Sharma, Harikrishnan B. and Pradeep Nair“Pakistan and Bangladesh are the 31st and 32nd states of India. Cow is our national animal. Swadeshi is my birthright. The Indraprastha is...
View ArticleThe Game in Afghanistan
At the penultimate hour of leaving Afgha-nistan, the Western powers are now engaged in the dirtiest game imaginable. Doggedly pursuing the goal of facilitating a legitimised re-entry of the Taliban,...
View ArticleThe Jayalalithaa Case: A Landmark in Reform
The Tamil Nadu Chef Minister and All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam chief, Ms J. Jayalalithaa's conviction by a Special Court under the Prevention of Corruption Act in Bengaluru on September 27...
View ArticleRelevance of Gandhiji's Message Today
From N.C.'s WritingsOn the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi's 115th birth anniversary on October 2, 2014 we are reproducing the following article of N.C. and carrying a few relevant articles on Gandhiji.On...
View ArticleBorder is More Complicated after Xi's Visit
My hunch is that Gujarat's map of India showing Arunachal Pradesh with dotted lines, suggesting a disputed territory, was at the instance of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Gujarat is his backyard and he...
View ArticleIndia feels Short-changed
The Prime Minister Narendra Modi's trip to the US has been a stunning success from his point of view, but what has India got in the bargain? Modi is not India—at least, not yet. But Modi nonetheless...
View ArticlePM in New York and Washington
In his tongue-in-cheek description of the PM, BJP patriarch L.K. Advani (who has been left out in the cold by his former protege now running the country) recently observed that Narendra Modi “is a...
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Women, Right to Food and Role of Panchayats
WOMEN‘S WORLDBackground: Need for Food SecurityThe Indian state has the responsibility of raising ‘the level of nutrition and standard of living and to improve the public health'1 in terms of Article...
View ArticleIndia - China: Economic Development and the Boundary Problem: Xi's Visit
by V. C. BhutaniThe economic discussions between Xi and Modi and the $ 20 billion Chinese forthcoming investment in Indian infrastructure and other projects naturally and rightly received a lot of...
View ArticleCorporatising War and Conflict: The Military-Industrial Complex in USA and India
by Emma-Jayne Orser-KooistraOne facet of democracy is the power of citizens to control what a state can and cannot do, both domestically and abroad. The corporatisation of war and conflict severely...
View ArticleEurope, US Criticise Israel
Gaza is a 41-kilometre (25 miles) long and six-to-10-kilometre wide prison containing 1.8 million Palestinians held for years by Israel to the east and by Egypt to the west. They are not allowed to get...
View ArticleEditorial: Hindi-Amreeki Bhai Bhai
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's trip to the United States has been one long reality TV show for Indian news channels. It was not just the PM, who is said to have consumed only hot water through the...
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