Pakistan Declines to Send Troops to Yemen: Danger of US-Iran conflict
Pakistan's ties with its Saudi Arabia ally have come under great strain. The Saudis, who have been bombing the Houthi people in Yemen in the south for over a month, have failed to subdue or make peace...
View ArticleDr Ambedkar's 125th Birth Anniversary — The Real Tribute
All newspapers on April 15, 2015 were full of all parties in the country, though normally at each other's throat, vying with each other in their full-throated praise for Dr Ambedkar as one of the...
View ArticleKashmir: Masarat Alam, My Neighbour
by Mohan K. TikkuThe locality in Srinagar where Masarat Alam Bhat—who has been much in the news these past few weeks— comes from is where I once used to have my home: Zaindar Mohalla. It used to be a...
View ArticleImportance of being Rahul Gandhi
Rahul Gandhi is in the news for one reason or the other. Yesterday, the debate was on his 57-day leave of absence from the country. In fact, Rahul himself should have told about his passion for...
View ArticleUnprecedented Development, Stupendous Task
Something happened at the 21st Congress of the CPI-M at Visakhapatnam that had never happened in the party Congress of any Communist Party perhaps anywhere in the world and certainly not in India. The...
View ArticleReimagining Strategy, Returning To Grassroots : Challenges before Yechury
The election of Sitaram Yechury as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of India-Marxist is noteworthy not least because the CPM, with one million members, is the world's second largest...
View ArticleJyoti Basu's Bombshell
From N.C.'s WritingsNow that the CPI-M's 21st Congress at Visakhapatnam is over and Sitaram Yechury has been elected as the new General Secretary of the party throwing the dominant party leadership's...
View Article'Opposition-mukt Bharat' is a Dangerous Thesis. Is Yechury up to the Task of...
IMPRESSIONSOutside of religious faith-lines, can the dead be brought to life again? The principal commu-nist grouping in India, the CPI-M, was so systematically destroyed during the Prakash Karat years...
View ArticleI give you the Bullet Train
Are you hungry, are you in pain?Come, I'll feed you the bullet train.Have you no roof ov'r your head?Are you directly under the rain?Come, jump into the bullet train.Are you on foot, pursued apaceBy...
View ArticleYechury and the Kerala Selfie
by Appukuttan VallikunnuThe election of Sitaram Yechury as the CPM's General Secretary without a contest is significant in one aspect. It is a small beginning of that party's rectification process....
View ArticleCongress of the Future
At its 21st Congress, the Communist Party of India-Marxist redoubled its resolve for strengthening the Party, the class and mass organisations and unleashing powerful people's struggles for forging the...
View ArticleWhy ‘May' Day?
This year again, the world is celebrating the First of May as the May Day, a day of labour struggle, solidarity and festival. It would be interesting to learn why the month of May was chosen for the...
View ArticleTen Lodestars From Xi's Pakistan Visit
Looking at it from any angle, the Chinese President Xi Jinping's recent visit to Pakistan has been an extraordinary event. To be sure, Pakistan experienced the “Midas touch”. Almost overnight, there is...
View ArticleChinese Bonanza for Pakistan: In the Wider Interest?
China's multifaceted initiative on Pakistan has been received pragmatically by public opinion in India on the watch for what works best. Even the windfall of submarines, as long as it is not...
View ArticleEnormity of Nepal's Tragedy
EDITORIALWhile fears of epidemic mount in Kathmandu with many bodies yet to be removed, Nepal's PM Sushil Koirala has said the death toll in last Saturday's 7.9-intensity earthquake that rocked the...
View ArticleThinking Big, China is Changing the World Order; with Mixed Priorities, we...
IMPRESSIONSIt is now clear that China is seeking to change the way the world is run. Its two big schemes—the Silk Road Economic Belt and the Maritime Silk Road, or Belt and Road in short—are so daring...
View ArticleAfghan Test Case
The Afghan President, Mohammad Ashraf Ghani's mindfulness of India in his country's scheme of things could well have been distilled in the interview he gave a leading Indian daily. Creating the right...
View ArticleUnravelling the Nuances of Ghani's India Visit
by Raj Kumar SharmaThe ContextAfghanistan is in a state of security and economic transition, as the US-NATO forces have begun their withdrawal from the country in 2014. The President of Afghanistan, Dr...
View ArticleNGOs and Agrarian Crises
It is unfortunate that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is harassing and hounding the NGOs. Probably, the party's leaders do not realise that many of its members were once themselves NGOs. When the...
View ArticleSalman, Vishwas, Gadkari, Badals
MUSINGSWith Salman Khan convicted under culpable homicide in the 2002 hit-and-run case, the coming days will lie fitted with news reports and endless discussions focusing on him and what lies ahead......
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