A Brahmin Misfit
by Kamakshi BalasubramanianIndia is a huge country, and represents many ethnic groups. In spite of it, for the most part, someone like me is nearly always recognised as a Tamil Brahmin pretty quickly...
View ArticleAct East through the North-East
The ‘Look East Policy' changed into the ‘Act East Policy' under the present political dispensation led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. This dispensation has called for a robust and result-oriented...
View ArticleImproving Police Command
It is a travesty of justice. The court has let off all the 16 policemen, belonging to the Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) of Uttar Pradesh due to lack of evidence. It was dark and it was difficult...
View ArticleIran Deal: Obama earns his Nobel
The Iran nuclear agreement, which was reached in Lausanne, Switzerland, on April 2, 2015, is an incredible diplomatic victory for the United States. It contains terms that are far better than anyone...
View ArticleYemen and the Nuclear Deal: Evolving Global Equations
The bombing of the Yemeni capital, Sana'a, by the Saudi-led coalition has exposed a bag of contradictions which are growing sharper with time. The coalition is battling the Houthi rebels hostile to the...
View ArticleDisturbing Signals
EDITORIALSeveral developments in the last few days at the Centre and in the States have caused considerable controversy and concern.First, there was the exchange of letters between Justice Kurian...
View ArticleSaluting Sobho Gianchandani: A Symbol of Pride of the Subcontinent
TRIBUTESobho Gianchandani, one of Pakistan's last leaders from its first generation of Marxists, passed away in Larkana (in Pakistan's Sindh province) four months ago on December 8, 2014. He was...
View ArticleThe Answer is Blowing in the Wind
This is the day that India's greatest modern-day social thinker was born. Aided by a fratern-ity of able and well-meaning compatriots, he gave us Constitutional Democracy, and a vision of how much rot...
View ArticleFrom ‘pile of shit', discovery of breathtaking contradictions: Gunter Grass,...
TRIBUTEby Subhoranjan DasguptaGunter Grass, the German author and social critic who gave voice to the generation that came of age during the horrors of the Nazi era, died on Monday (April 13) morning....
View ArticleUnprecedented Challenges Strengthen Case For Equality and Environment Protection
I - IntroductionThe next two decades (2015-2035) present some unprecedented challenges for the human civilisation. There is clearly a very urgent need for restricting climate change to tolerable...
View ArticlePakistan far from Losing Relevance
While Pakistan may appear to be losing its relevance to India in some Indians' perception, it is in fact strengthening its geo-strategic relevance in the fast-changing Asian geopolitics. There is every...
View ArticleAmbedkar and the Annihilation of Caste
by Sukumaran C. V.“There is no code of laws more infamous regarding social rights than the Laws of Manu. Any instance from anywhere of social injustice must pale before it. Why have the masses of...
View ArticleAmbedkar and Constituent Assembly
by Vivek Kumar SrivastavaWe can look at Bhimrao Ambedkar in many ways. He is credited with the drafting of our Constitution. He is respected as the champion of the Dalit cause. He is remembered for...
View ArticleHonouring Ambedkar
From N.C.'s WritingsApril 14 this year marked the 124th birth anniversary of Dr Babasaheb Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar. On this occasion we are reproducing the following piece by N.C. to offer our sincere...
View ArticleOn Rafale's Induction into the IAF
by Hamid HabibullahEgypt's procurement of the muilti-role combat aircraft Rafale from the Dassault Aviation of France had been actually financed by Saudi Arabia and the UAE, which have been known for...
View ArticleModi's “Flyaway” French Deal
If Libya's Muammar Gaddafi were alive, we could have asked him how the French get around authoritarian rulers and tin-pot dictators from the developing countries who carry fat cheque books in their...
View ArticleFive-Star Activism, too, is Democracy. Deny it, and we face New Totalitarianism
IMPRESSIONSForget the beef ban and the Good Friday controversy in the Supreme Court. More important is the fact that we seem to have reached a stage where we cannot debate issues like water and air...
View ArticleCourts and Social Justice Litigation
Prime Minister Modi's gratuitous diatribe of the judiciary being influenced by five-star social activists was a cheap joke which brought down the prestige of the biggest political office of the...
View ArticleChildren of Democracy
Religious sensitivity has deepened since the advent of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's regime. Even though he has underlined the principle of sarva dharma samabhava, parochialism has shown its ugly face...
View ArticleNational Task and Left Politics
EDITORIALWhile PM Narendra Modi is abroad visiting France, Germany and Canada trying to woo foreign investors and engaging in deals like the one on purchase of 36 Rafale fighter aircraft he has struck...
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