What Modi has Achieved in the US
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the US was, in more ways than one, a success. He may not have brought with him anything tangible from America but has created a climate of confidence and won...
View ArticleLooking beyond the Summit
From N.C.'s WritingsSummit meetings are not boxing rings which the public watch to cheer or boo at the players punching at each other. Most of the summits are meant for serious business either to...
View ArticleBrutal Jihadi Terrorism, now a Fashion among Youth; US Blunders; Wahabism;...
IMPRESSIONSSo it's out in the open: Terrorism is the issue of our times. It was a central theme in Narendra Modi's discussion with Israel's Netanyahu, a veteran on the subject. It was the main focus of...
View Article'Clean India' Tokenism
MUSINGSAfter hijacking the good old broom from Arvind Kejriwal, Prime Minister Narendra Modi decided to go on this latest publicity move. Dragging to the fore, several relevant queries. Can the masses...
View ArticleDe-escalate Border Tensions
EDITORIALTensions have escalated along the India-Pakistan border with ceasefire violations and firing taking place on the Line of Control (LoC) and the International Border (IB) in J&K since the...
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Education — The Indian Experience
by Abhijit ChakrabortyThe word education is synonymous to the word empowerment and an empowered nation would mean a progressive nation. It has been seen that education enables a country to make...
View ArticleAlan Woods' State and Revolution Rewriting History
by Paresh ChattopadhyayThis article is a rejoinder to a part of Alan Woods' essay, The Ideas of Karl Marx, published in June 2013. To read the full text of Woods' essay,...
View ArticleRajya Sabha seats, or Bharat Ratna, or Governorships: All Politics and Populism
IMPRESSIONSIn itself, Sachin Tendulkar and Rekha treating Parliament as one of their trinkets is a non-issue. There are many in our vast and fertile country who have neither the civilisational range...
View ArticleRemembering Bhupesh Gupta
The late Kenneth Tynan, theatre critic, once wrote in the course of a review of one of Brendan Behan's plays: “The English hoard words like misers; the Irish take them out on a drunken spree.”Mr...
View ArticleSuch a Shame!
CommunicationJeetan Ram Manjhi, the CM of Bihar, has taken the right decision in instituting a probe about the alleged ugly act of ‘washing' of the deity and the temple at Madhubani by the priest and...
View ArticleNo Need for Certificate of Patriotism from PM Modi
CommunicationPrime Minister Modi's recent statement of praising Muslims and calling them patriots is nothing but double-speak as he has not a word of condemnation against the highly inflammatory,...
View ArticleBhupesh : Some Reminiscences
From N.C.'s WritingsTo write about somebody whom one has known for more than four decades—sometimes very closely—is not easy after his or her passing away. For me, Bhupesh Gupta was one whom I have...
View ArticleLet us March in Step with the Life Outside
It has been my privilege and honour to have belonged to this House for a quarter of a century. But it is not for me to say what role I have played from the standpoint of which I have worked in this...
View ArticleRemembering Bhupesh Gupta on his Birth Centenary
October 20 this year will mark the birth centenary of the legendary Communist parliamentarian Bhupesh Gupta, the longest serving Member in the Rajya Sabha —he was in the Upper House of Parliament for...
View ArticleSuspicion against Sikhs
The Sikhs are a small, sturdy community in India. Since it is limited in size it is very protective about its identity. It often over-reacts but that is the sign of its assertion that it does not want...
View ArticleTagore and Sikhism
Rabindranath Tagore wrote six poems on Sikh heroism and martyrdom, two in 1888, three in 1898, and one in 1935. Of them three are on Guru Gobind Singh, one on Banda Bahadur, one on Bhai Torusingh, and...
View ArticleWe will Not Allow our Respective Faiths to be Used as Instruments of Violence
by B.P. SinghThe following is the text of an address by the author at the World Summit 2014 organised by the Universal Peace Foundation (Seoul, South Korea, August 10-12, 2014).Thank you, Mr President...
View ArticleNeed to Review and Reverse the Decision on Planning Commission
“The very first thing that our future National Government will have to do would be to set up a commission for drawing up a comprehensive plan of reconstruction.”—Subhash Bose's Presidential Address at...
View ArticlePreeti Banerjee: The Melodious Voice that first sang ‘Sare Jahanse Achchha'
TRIBUTEPreeti Banerjee (nee Sarkar) bade adieu to the mundane world on August 25 at 91. She was perhaps the last living member of the central squad of the Indian People's Theatre Assocation (IPTA), the...
View ArticleNotes on the Leader
Since the results of the general election were declared, I have been in a state of unbelief. The country now has at its head a man who has widely been called a mass murderer, who likened a massacre of...
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