Beti Bachao needs Radicalism rather than Rhetoric
WOMEN'S WORLDby Neetu ChoudharyPrime Minister Narendra Modi's campaign on ‘beti bachao, beti padhao' is merely a top-up on numerous scattered schemes that already exist in the name of women's welfare...
View ArticleMassacres Recoiled in Assam: Adivasis this Time
by Nazimuddin SiddiqueIn a series of violence in Assam the latest deadly massacre came in the fateful evening of December 23, 2014 when Bodo militants unleashed their barbarism through the barrels of...
View ArticleShould PM Visit China?
Full marks to the arrogance of China! It summons the Indian envoy at Beijing and conveys its displeasure over the visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Arunachal Pradesh. The territory is part of...
View ArticleShastri's New Torments / Language: Pandora's Box
From N.C.'s WritingsThe following was the ‘New Delhi Skyline' written by N.C. fifty years ago on March 2, 1965 and published in Mainstream (March 6, 1965). Even after fifty years the relevance of its...
View ArticleUnpopular Leadership-style Hurts Kerala's CPI-M. Would BJP Benefit?
IMPRESSIONSKerala could well become another Bengal for the Communist Party of India-Marxist. The party's State Secretary, Pinarayi Vijayan, demitted office last week after a 17-year reign. The party...
View ArticleOn Economic Survey: 2014-2015
Professor Ha-Joon Chang teaches economics at the Cambridge University and has authored a number of books such as Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Studies in Historical Perspective, Bad Samaritans:...
View ArticleBudget and Some Unanswered Questions
Some aspects of this year's Union Budget made it different from Budgets of previous years. In previous years it has been customary to compare the new fiscal year's allocations for various Ministries,...
View ArticleUnion Budget 2015-16: Continuity with the Past Framework
I. IntroductionThe Union Budget 2015-16 is in the same mould as the Budgets in the preceding years. The Finance Minister's speech announces or mentions a whole host of schemes for different sections of...
View ArticleVigilance: Need of the Hour
EDITORIALThe Finance Minister's presentation of the Union Budget on the last day of February naturally attracted national attention. However, several other develop-ments have also hogged the headlines...
View ArticleUS - Iran Talks Reaching Ides Of March
The US-Iran negotiations have successfully crossed the boulder that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threw in the way via his outreach to the American lawmakers. The conclusion can be safely...
View ArticleWider Perspective of Left Unity
In recent times Left parties and organisations have been increasingly pushed towards the margins. In such a situation their potential to create a better world should be protected. All social forces,...
View ArticleIt Is No ‘Treason', Mr Sachar
COMMUNICATIONThe veteran jurist and former Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court, Mr Rajindar Sachar, has taken undue offence to the watermark of the Preamble to the Consitution in an advertisement...
View ArticleChange the People
by L.K. SharmaIn a message to the tax evaders, a frightening voice says: “We know it all! Every single transaction of yours! You can hide nothing!” Meanwhile, [‘Indians are getting more...
View ArticlePDP-BJP Alliance, Targeting Mother Teresa
MUSINGSThere's a sense of disbelief-cum-outrage at the PDP-BJP merger for government formation in J&K. Nah, not just a marriage of convenience but I would label it to be a mismatched marriage that...
View ArticleRay of Sunshine
From N.C.'s WritingsThe following ‘Political Notebook' by N.C. was written twenty years ago and appeared in Mainstream (March 4, 1995). It is being reproduced here against the backdrop of a two-day...
View ArticleNeo-bondage in the Age of 'Make in India' and Shramev Jayate
by Dustin Robertson‘Make in India' is a spirited slogan and initiative coined by India's new Prime Minister that aims to “Facilitate investment. Foster innovation. Enhance skill development. Protect...
View ArticleTribute to Ninan Koshy
TRIBUTEDr Ninan Koshy (February 1, 1934-March 4, 2015) was a noted political thinker, foreign affairs expert, theologian and social analyst. He was born in 1934 in Thiruvalla. A former Director of the...
View ArticleEditors Guild of India decries Ban on the Documentary 'India's Daughter'
The Government of India's move in banning the telecast of the BBC documentary ‘India's Daughter' depicting the aftermath of the brutal gang rape and murder of Nirbhaya is wholly unwarranted, based as...
View ArticleShould White Women Make Documentaries about Rape in India?
by Bina ShahI am puzzled.Five prominent Indian feminists including Urvashi Batalia wrote a letter to NDTV explaining why they objected to the BBC documentary, ‘India's Daughter', and explaining why...
View ArticleLetter to NDTV by Women Activists and Others
The following is a letter addressed to Dr Prannoy Roy, Co-founder and Executive Co-Chairperson, NDTV by several women lawyers, activists and others on the Nirbhaya rape film by the BBC, “India's...
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