A Personal Debt Recalled On Republic Day
COMMUNICATIONOn the 65th anniversary of our Republic Day, I remembered my father and recalled our family's debt to the Constitution of India and the Supreme Court of India. To elaborate, my father,...
View ArticleUkraine: Russia Won't Blink
The Russian-American history is replete with instances where Washington walked away triumphalist at the end of a standoff while Moscow retired hanging its head low. Let us dip into the past for a...
View ArticleAfter all, it's a Game
Suppose India had lost the World Cup cricket match against Pakistan at Adelaide, the reaction among its people would have been that of disappointment and remorse. But I do not think that they would...
View ArticleParties on Trial
From N.C.'s WritingsBy the time these lines reach the reader, the final picture of electoral contests and poll alliances will be clear. After six weeks of hectic parleys and secret confabulations,...
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Political Significance of Aam Aadmi Party (Aap) and its Performance in Delhi...
by M.R. BijuThe Aam Admi Party (Common Man's Party) was launched on November 26, 2012 and is currently the ruling party of Delhi. It came into existence following differences between the activists...
View ArticleAAP Victory Disrupts BJP Advance
The AAP victory has slowed down the BJP juggernaut not only in Delhi but all over the country. The BJP had been taking the people too much for granted. It has been riding roughshod over people's...
View ArticleAAP's Fairytale Political Journey
by Denzil FernandesThe Delhi Assembly election 2015 has thrown up a historic result with the AAP's broom sweeping off the BJP and wiping out the Congress. Figuratively, the broom has become symbolic of...
View ArticleGeneral Amit Shah's Black Tuesday
Till February 10, most of the print media published stories with headlines declaring a neck-and-neck fight in Delhi. The elite English TV channels also echoed that line, forecasting a “photo finish” or...
View ArticleIndia - Sri Lanka Ties: Sirisena Visit - An Appraisal
Like most of his predecessors, Sri Lanka's new President Maithripala Sirisena chose to make his first official visit abroad to India in mid-February, thereby reinforcing the special relationship...
View ArticleBihar: Checkmating the Upsurge of Neo-dalit Politics
by Arun SrivastavaThe Manjhi-Nitish break-up in Bihar has indeed come as a surprise as this would dent the “clean” image of Nitish Kumar, the Chanakya of Bihar, and also decimate the tenets of his...
View ArticleWill Mr Narendra Modi be Able to Check the Sangh Loonies? Perhaps Not
In retrospect, the Prime Minister of India, Mr Narendra Modi, would have done better, achieved a thousand times more, and helped India's cultural integrity, unity and amity—and therefore its...
View Article8th Falgun
Last week was observed the sixtythird anniversary of the immortal Language Movement of East Pakistan that found blood spilling on the streets of Dhaka on February 21, 1952. As a homage to the martyrs...
View ArticleActions Accentuate Alienation
EDITORIALThe Budget session of Parliament has begun with the Opposition mounting a fierce attack on the Treasury Benches on the new Land Acquisition Bill the BJP-led NDA Government has introduced in...
View ArticleOn Modi's Defeat in Delhi Election
COMMUNICATIONPM Narendra Modi's new avatar as a high-handed, know-all self-promoting man with a tinge of arrogance was responsible for the fast deterioration of his so-called charm among electors....
View ArticleWomen's Day
Would it not be nice if, in fact,You did not set aside that oneCharitable day to propitiate us,But simply, through the year,Internalised our human status.Would it not be nice if youUnderstood how,...
View ArticleA Letter to Friends on a Matter of Concern
Dear Friends,Perhaps I should not address you like this, yet feeling concerned about media reports, which I wish to be proved false, about internal bickerings in the AAP, I am doing so.The Indian...
View ArticleFukuyama's Journey since the Fall of the Berlin Wall
BOOK REVIEWby Nirupam HazraPolitical Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalisation of Democracy by Francis Fukuyama; Publisher: Profile Books, New Delhi; 2014; price:...
View ArticleRussia: Boris Nemtsov's Murder and Demonisation of Putin
Boris Nemtsov, one of Russia's most flam-boyant and exotic liberal Opposition leaders and Russia's first President Boris Yeltsin's one-time favourite and heir-apparent, was shot dead on February 28...
View ArticleDepoliticising People's Protests
The idea and practice of democracy has always remained a subject of political negotiation, revision and reinvention. Its history is inseparable from the history of people's assertions, protests,...
View ArticleBeti Bachao: Patients' Envy Doctors' Pride
by Harikrishnan B., Navneet Sharma and Pradeep NairThe Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, has miles to go before he sleeps, especially when he is such a slow walker. As Chief Minister of Gujarat for more...
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