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EDITORIALLast week a fervent appeal was made in these columns to de-escalate the rising tensions along the India-Pakistan border.The ceasefire violations and firing on the LoC and international border...
View ArticleTowards a New Education Policy
by Murzban JalAll educational work in the field in the Soviet Republic of Workers and Peasants, in the field of political education in general and in the field of art in particular, should be imbued...
View ArticleEducation Perspective
by Sadhan MukherjeeHave our students stopped dreaming or thinking big? Don't they feel that in the rapidly advancing modern world they have no place near the top? Conversely, why are we not trying to...
View ArticleParliamentary Elections and Gorkhaland: Message from Darjeeling
The exposure of the Darjeeling hills towards the tit-bits of electoral politics can be traced back to 1937, the year when the first-ever elections in the hills took place. According to the provisions...
View ArticleGeneral Elections 2014 and the Changing Political Equation in Bengal
by Nirupam HazraThe 2014 election results in the State of West Bengal clearly show the dominance of the ruling Trinamul Congress as it has won thirtyfour out of fortytwo seats. Its main Opposition, the...
View ArticleWas Pakistan testing Modi? ISI's Foolishness subverts Collective Progress...
IMPRESSIONSSuddenly reality is catching up with Narendra Modi and India. We are learning that showmanship can go thus far and no further. The first hint came when the Chinese President's visit...
View ArticleSecular Forces at Crossroads
by Arun SrivastavaThe secular alliance of the RJD, JD(U) and Congress no doubt has checkmated the BJP's juggernaut in Bihar and managed to send a strong message to Narendra Modi that his efforts to...
View ArticleAfghanistan Faces Uncertain Future
Afghanistan has witnessed two major events in the most recent weeks. One is the assumption of office by Ashraf Ghani as the next President of the country, succeeding Hamid Karzai. The second has been...
View ArticleModi's Japan Visit and Reactions in the Chinese Media
The interactions between India and China are viewed with a very keen interest by the international community. The domestic politics and leadership transitions in these countries are also events of...
View ArticleIndia-China: Reflections on 1962
From N.C.'s WritingsThis week, thirty years ago, the Chinese Army had mounted a full-scale military attack along the entire length of our northern border. For three years previous to that there were...
View ArticleJan Dhan Yojana: Ambitious but Ambiguous Plan
The Jan Dhan Yojana (People's Wealth Plan)—an ambitious financial inclusion programe—was launched amid much fanfare in India on August 28, 2014. The initial target of the Jan Dhan Yojana is to cover 75...
View ArticleBJP's Volte Face on Black Money
It is becoming clearer by the day that the Congress and BJP are the obverse and reverse of the same neo-liberal coin. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's latest statement that the identity of those Indians...
View ArticleWhither Congress?
The defeat of the Congress in Haryana and Maharashtra in State elections does not come as a surprise. This was expected. Those who have followed the political developments since the 2014 Lok Sabha...
View ArticleAssembly Poll Outcome: The Grim Reality
EDITORIALThe results of the State Assembly elections in Haryana and Maharashtra have doubtless highlighted the fact that the Modi wave, that ensured a spectacular outcome for the BJP in the Lok Sabha...
View ArticleNikhil Chakravartty's 101st birth anniversary
On November 3 this year falls Nikhil Chakravartty's 101st birth anniversary. On this occasion we are reproducing three of his writings. The first one is one of his earliest articles, published under...
View ArticleArresting the Administrative Rot
by Pranjit AgarwalaThe former DGP of Assam Shankar Barua's suicide because of the multi-crore Saradha chit-fund scam has not only shocked the country but has also shaken the Central Bureau of...
View ArticleViolence In Mewat-Tauru, A Flashpoint
This article was sent quite sometime ago, but could not be used earlier due to unavoidable reasons.A simple road accident in the Tauru town of the Mewat district on June 8, 2014, so common all over...
View ArticleLingering Shadow of Feudal Oppression
by Arun SrivastavaThe threat of feudal violence has started resonating in rural Bihar. The manner in which the feudal forces had started taking refuge in the BJP in the wake of the Lok Sabha elections...
View ArticleRubbing Salt into the Muslims' Wounds
by Kuldip NayarAfter the demolition of the Babri Masjid in 1992, the Muslims felt for the first time since independence that they were a minority in the real sense. The partition, on the basis of...
View ArticleMemories of 1984
IThe moment I heard that Indira Gandhi had been assassinated, I hoped the assassin was not a Sikh. My parents said that when they first heard the news that Gandhiji had been assassinated, they hoped...
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