Forsaken at Home : Repertoire of Displacement
by Shubhra SethThe feeling of returning home gives a sense of respite and belonging to many. But how does one feel when the home does not give a sense of belonging and it is just a mere lifeless...
View ArticleWhere is the Ghar to Return when it is Unjustly Occupied?
The SCs/STs are recognised as indigenous people of the country. They constitute more than 25 per cent of the country's population. However, at the United Nations, the Government of India had...
View ArticleDebating a Post-Westphalian International Order
by Jayabrata SarkarOver the past three-and-a-half centuries, the principles and practices of the Westphalian Treaty (1648) gradually spread from Europe to the rest of the world. The Westphalian order...
View ArticleSaffronisation of Secularism
Not many in Pakistan, still fewer in India, recalled that this March 23 marked the 75th year of the Muslim League's resolution to demand partition of India. The Lahore resolution, as it was called,...
View ArticleFree Trade Faults: Europeans Fear Wave of Litigation from US Firms
by Christoph PaulyWith broad public resistance and a Euro-pean Parliament majority against it, EU officials are rethinking their positions on the proposed free-trade agreement with Washington. Many...
View ArticleModi Government builds Tempo for National Law Banning Conversions to...
The Indian Government sees an absolute ban on conversions to Christianity as the only way they can control Hindu religious nationalist elements from attacking nuns, clergy and churches, big and small,...
View ArticleWhere Are We Heading?
EDITORIALWhile the Aam Aadmi Party's squabbles have snowballed with the summary expulsion of two of its founder-members—Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan—and some other leading figures in the party,...
View ArticleEver More Gas
We are to believe that the ass is actually a horse because Modi and his people choose to call it that.In the months since Narendra Damodardas Modi campaigned for the general election and then became...
View ArticleUzbek Presidential Poll: Islam Karimov, the Unchallenged Leader of Uzbekistan
by R.G. GidadhubliDuring the last over two decades since the Soviet break-up, having given up 70 years of communist ideology and adopting the Western system of political democracy and market economy,...
View ArticleTribute to Daya Varma
Dr Daya Varma, life-long communist, scientist, activist, dreamer, pharmacologist, professor emeritus at McGill University, Montreal, passed away on March 22, 2015 in St John's, Newfoundland, Canada. He...
View ArticleAcquitted for Lack of Evidence
MUSINGSFor those survivors who had been witness to the May 1987 massacre at Meerut's Hashim-pura locality—where 42 innocent Muslim men were picked up from near a mosque and shot dead in cold blood by...
View ArticleThe Women Prisoners sang Bulleh Shah
by Jawed Naqvi“BY then, I had befriended all the women from the so-called criminal cell,” Tahira Mazhar Ali smiled, her tone toggling between impishness and conspiracy. She was sharing with me one of...
View ArticleTribute to Tahira Mazhar Ali
Pioneer of the Pakistani progressive women's movement and noted Leftist leader Tahira Mazhar Ali passed away in Lahore on March 23, 2015. The editorial in The News International (March 25, 2015)...
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Will the Recent Changes in Labour Laws usher in ‘Acche Din' for the Working...
by Anamitra RoychowdhuryThe clear continuity in economic policies between the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government and the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) Government is discernible to any...
View ArticleExaminations and Professional Competence
Cheating in ExaminationsThe recent news reports of wholesale cheating in matriculation examinations in Bihar, with pictures of accomplices dangerously climbing the walls of buildings in which...
View ArticleJudging the Judges: Debating Judicial Conduct
by Kaleeswaram RajThe Supreme Court Bar Association had proposed a resolution demanding “fair treatment of lawyers” by judges. The notice issued recently by the Association, which consists of members...
View ArticleUnion Budget 2015-16: Injustice to Dalits and Adivasis
In order to reduce and remove the many-sided disadvantages and problems faced by Dalits and adivasis, sub-plans for the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes have been introduced to ensure adequate and...
View ArticleIslamic State (IS) Declines
It may be too early to say that the days of the Islamic State of Syria and Iraq (IS) appear to be numbered. It has lost quite a lot of territory and revenue and has been completely driven out of the...
View ArticleThe Last Devadasi: Does her Death brings down Curtain on a Disgraceful Temple...
Devadasi, though described as a female slave of the gods, used with reference to women dedicated to the temple, was actually a temple prostitute. Many parts of India boasted of these women who were an...
View ArticleJudicial Activism, Right or Wrong
From N.C.'s WritingsWhen politicians as a community are in a state of siege in the eyes of the public, it is extremely short-sighted on the part of any government to make any move that may appear to...
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