Is Winning Elections all that matters in Democracy? What about Values and the...
IMPRESSIONSFor a pregnant Sunday morning, only hours before history opens a new page, some timely queries: Is the NCP a Naturally Corrupt Party as Narendra Modi says it is? Is Narendra Modi lowering...
View ArticleNeither Love Nor Jihad: The Politics of Hate-Mongering
by Navneet Sharma, Harikrishnan B. and Pradeep NairLove Jihad would literally mean the ‘war for love' but is understood more symbolically as a war cry for the spread and propagation of a particular...
View ArticleOdds after the Maharashtra, Haryana elections: Turning Towards Inclusive...
On the face of it, the BJP's ascendancy in Maha-rashtra and Haryana mirrors an extraordinarily unipolar political fabric. The condition has to be viewed in the background both of the political and...
View ArticleIn lieu of An editorial
October 31 this year marks the thirtieth anniversary of the assassination of Indira Gandhi. The situation today is markedly different from the one that prevailed in 2004. Yet what appeared as an...
View ArticleLenin: Theoretician of United Front
It was Lenin who really conceptualised the idea of united front. Though it is found in Marx-Engels, united front as a concept emerged in full form in the imperialist era. Lenin was the founder of the...
View ArticleHistoric Significance of October Revolution
On November 7 this year falls the ninetyseventh anniversary of the historic October Revolution that changed the face of Russia and led to the birth of the USSR three years later. Remembering that...
View ArticleA Question for Intellectuals
by Jawed NaqviIncreasingly of late, Prof Romila Thapar is required to assume the nearly impossible role of Emperor Akbar who, according to the official plaque at his tomb near Agra, had “created a...
View ArticleAcademics Must Question More: Romila
On October 26 this year Prof Romila Thapar, the distinguished historian and Professor Emeritus, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, delivered the Third Nikhil Chakravartty Memorial Lecture,...
View ArticleSantida: The Less Travelled Road
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the on less travelled by,And that has made all the difference.—Robert Frost, Selected PoemsMy introduction to Santida had come about in an unforgettable way....
View ArticleMeerut: The Danger Signal
November 7 this year marks the birth centenary of Prof Santimay Roy, distinguished freedom fighter (he served a total of 12 years imprisonment and internship in British India), Communist and former...
View ArticlePrincess Fragrant: Will it Bridge the Gap?
by Teshu SinghIn a recent endeavour to restore the cultural difference between the Uyghurs and Han Chinese, the Chinese Government has come up with an innovative ides of a cartoon television serial by...
View ArticleTrilokpuri Riots: Police have Targeted Muslims | INTERVIEW WITH SHABNAM HASHMI
The following is an interview with social activist Shabnam Hashmi. Shabnam Hashmi is one of the most known social and political activists fighting against communalism in the country. Her major...
View ArticleMinority Group's Second-Class Positioning
MUSINGSThere has been no recent history of any major communal violence in and around Delhi. Yes, with just about one exception—during the aftermath of the Babri Masjid demolition, several Muslim...
View ArticleLetter from Kolkata: Saradha and Mamata Banerjee
Finally, by winding up the Justice Shyamal Sen Commission, Mamata Banerjee did what she should have done long before. There is really no point in doling out money from the State's exchequer to refund...
View ArticleAction More Important than Disclosure of Names
In the midst of the debate on the illegal foreign account holders, the names of those who were given amnesty a few days before the debate, have been forgotten. Apparently, they are from both the main...
View ArticleLove Jihad and targeting of Religious Minorities
The recent outpouring of support for the “development” agenda of the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, by several leaders of the Catholic and Protestant churches may possibly stave off the immediate...
View ArticleUkraine Poll gives Fractured Verdict
The quotient of happiness in politics can be very strange. All three external protagonists in the Ukraine crisis—Russia, European Union [EU] and the United States—have reasons to be both happy and...
View ArticleAs Things Stand
The first principle of dialectic: things never remain the same. Thus, contrary to what you may think, there are important stirrings within the Indian Left.History knows no greater motivator than a...
View ArticleImperatives of Secular-Democratic Unity
The Congress suffered its worst ever electoral defeat in this year's Lok Sabha elections. What has been happening since then is that the two fundamental tenets of our polity, namely, secularism and...
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