India: An Emerging Regional Hegemon
by Shatakshi BhargavaSouth Asia, as a region, has always been a victim of political instability and economic disequilibrium. It is not hidden that political and economic affairs are interlinked amongst...
View ArticlePutting AAP's Historic Victory in Perspective
by Sanjay MishraThis article, which reached us in March, could not be used earlier due to unavoidable reasons. Its contents, however, are still valid even though a bitter struggle has lately broken out...
View ArticleBeef, Buffalo and Brahmanism: The Politics of Food
by Navneet Sharma, Pradeep Nair and Harikrishnan B.Cow is a national animal. Cow is our mother. Cow is a useful domestic animal. Cow has four legs, two eyes, one mouth and one tail. Cow gives us...
View ArticleState Violating Saibaba's Fundamental Rights
In the eleven months that the Delhi University's teacher-activist Dr G.N. Saibaba has been incarcerated, under the UAPA provisions, in the Nagpur Central Jail, he has been subjected to barbaric...
View ArticleBose Aircrash was Faked. Was he Shot in Siberia? Was he the Baba in UP? The...
IMPRESSIONSSpying, the very idea, has a bad aura about it. To that extent the declassified information that Jawaharlal Nehru spied on Subhas Chandra Bose and his family makes Nehru look bad....
View ArticleNo Indication that Nehru Ordered Surveillance on the Bose Family: Sugata Bose
by Shoaib DaniyalFrom 1948 to 1968, the Government of India meticulously spied on Sugata Bose's father, Sisir Bose, along with the rest of Subhash Chandra Bose's immediate family in Kolkata, as has...
View ArticleThe Communist Rishi
From N.C.'s WritingsThe following is a tribute that N.C. wrote after the demise of the first General Secretary of the CPI-M, P. Sundarayya, in 1985. Sundarayya was the undisputed leader of the...
View ArticleUnion Budget 2015-16 : A Beautiful Carriage with Lame Horses
The following analysis of the union budget by the marxist/maoist thinker, kobad ghandy, was written this month and reached us last week for publication in this journal. He sent it from tihar jail where...
View ArticleAppropriating the Modus Operandi
by Saurabh BajpaiTo destroy the legacy of the Indian national movement, the RSS-BJP has appropriated its modus operandi. It sounds harsh but true; the RSS-BJP is imitating the methods adopted by the...
View ArticleNo Countering the Poison of Garbage Utterances
MUSINGSIt is getting more than disgusting to hear those horrifying outbursts of the Hindutva elements directly or indirectly linked to the present-day government. These elements ought to be banned or...
View ArticleBihar: Nitish's Search for Strategy to Uplift Women ahead of Elections
by Arun SrivastavaNitish Kumar has always endeared to promote women and their cause. It was in keeping with his political vision that on Bihar Diwas (March 22), while dedicating the day to the women of...
View ArticleJammu and Kashmir: Return of the Natives
First a non-sequitor: the return of Kashmiri Pandits to the Valley is fraught with great perplexities of emotion, organisation, and healthy sustainability. This contemplated return will not but be...
View ArticleOn Babasaheb Ambedkar
by S.N. SahuIn the annals of India's modern history spanning our freedom struggle two towering personalities—Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose and Dr B.R. Ambedkar—rose on their own and that too not under...
View ArticleLenin
Remembering Vladimir Ilyich Lenin on his one hundred and fortyfifth birth anniversary on April 22, 2015, we are reproducing excerpts from the following article by Jawaharlal Nehru that appeared in The...
View ArticleEncounter or Sheer Murder
Yet another encounter has taken place in the State of Jammu and Kashmir. I have lost the count. What is distressing is that even the human rights activists are practically quiet. Hardly anyone of them...
View ArticleSignificant and Encouraging
POLITICAL NOTEBOOKRahul Gandhi's return to active politics after an extended sabbatical and Sitaram Yechury's elevation the post of the CPI-M General Secretary have been the most significant and...
View ArticleCongress Desperately Needs: a New Social Model for Survival
by Arun SrivastavaThis article arrived late. We are still using it as its contents retain their validity.Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi's month long “leave of absence” will expire on April 19. He...
View ArticleMoving Towards Dark Times
MUSINGSMurders, killings, rioting over rotis have always taken place but going by the present condition of affected hectares there are more than indications of an extremely difficult period ahead.It is...
View ArticleLaunch of the ‘Swaraj Abhiyan' by Dissident Aap Members: The New ‘Temple...
by Aurobindo GhoseFourteenth of April, 2015 was Ambedkar Jayanti, when I as a social activist from Delhi attended the Swaraj Samvad (a Dialogue on Present and Future Alternative Politics) held at...
View ArticleReport From Bundelkhand: Agro-Ecological Crisis Aggravated by Untimely Excess...
The already serious agro-ecological crisis in Bundelkhand region has aggravated recently by untimely excessive rain and hailstorms. With crop damage (wheat, paddy and oilseeds) in many villages ranging...
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