Media is Attacked by Nepalese for Just Reasons, by Our netas to Hide their...
IMPRESSIONSCheap sensationalised news handling by television has brought shame to India. Not a new development, it was left to Nepal to expose this internationally. Ironically, and in entirely...
View ArticleCameos / The Legacy for Tomorrow
From N.C.'s WritingsGurudev Rabindranath Tagore's 154th birth anniversary was observed last Saturday (May 9, 2011). On this occasion we are reproducing two pieces by N.C. on Tagore written 74 years...
View ArticleElection Results in UK and the Twin Questions of Scotland and European Union
by Vivek Kumar SrivastavaDavid Cameron's victory in the United Kingdom's parliamentary elections on May 7 is surprising to many observers because opinion polls had a different opinion. Many scholars...
View ArticleBritain Votes for Stability
by Purusottam BhattacharyaConfounding all the pollsters who had predicted a hung Parliament following the general elections held in Britain on 7 May 2015 the British Prime Minister and Conservative...
View ArticlePolitical Quake Hits UK But Cameron Returns
by L.K. SharmaA rare political earthquake shook the United Kingdom and demolished traditional loyalties and beliefs but completely bypassed 10 Downing Street. A visitor to London will see the same old...
View ArticleSino-Russian Entente in Eurasia
The presence of the Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Victory Day parade in Moscow on May 9 signifies a significant step forward in the strategic partnership between the two big powers. The Chinese...
View ArticleDisturbing Trend at AMU
I have returned from the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) disappointed and disturbed. I am disappointed because the students did not seem to have merged into the mainstream yet and disturbed because...
View ArticleSino - Indian Relations: Are Xi and Modi setting the Right Agenda despite...
According to one well-regarded international newspaper, it was just one of those things that naïve Chinese commanders had directed their men to cross into Indian territory during Xi Jinping's visit to...
View ArticleModi in China, Jayalalithaa's Acquittal
EDITORIALPM Narendra Modi began his first official visit to China yesterday and held talks with the Chinese leaders, including President Xi Jinping, in Xian, the Chinese head of state's home town,...
View ArticleDecisions can be Honest or Dishonest, Correct or Incorrect
The PM has supported the FM's idea that Section 13 of the Prevention of Corruption Act (PCA) needs a change if the government's decision-making is to be speeded up. Last month the PM apparently assured...
View ArticleTimes have Changed, We Must Move Forward
BOOK REVIEWby Rushda SiddiquiDenied by Allah by Noor Zaheer; Vitasta Publishing House, New Delhi; pages 162; Price: Rs 250. ISBN 978-93-82711-58-2The Muslims in India are a minority community. They...
View ArticleHistory as Insurrection: Searching for a Radical Science
by Murzban JalHumanity is the immediate object of natural science.—Karl Marx, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844For apart from inquiry, apart from praxis, humanity cannot be truly...
View ArticleAping the Adversary
From N.C.'s WritingsIt is surprising how intelligent people in politics sometimes take up positions which should logically belong to their adversaries.The Muslim League in 1940 picked up the so-called...
View ArticleCourts Tilt towards the Rich
As a law-abiding citizen, I have faith in the Court to rectify the wrong done to me. I have never been cheated except when the Emergency was declared and I was detained without any rhyme or reason.The...
View ArticleNayar's Views have Disturbed . . .
COMMUNICATIONKindly refer to the article of senior journalist Kuldip Nayar, “Disturbing Trend at AMU”, published in your prestigious publication on May 16, 2015.Mr Nayar, while expressing his dismay...
View ArticleBJP's Pep Talks fail to Enthuse the Electorate in Bengal
by Arun SrivastavaThe BJP lost the fight for strategic political relevance in Bengal to the CPI-M. Well before the elections to the Kolkata Municipal Corporation was announced, the BJP's Chanakya, Amit...
View ArticleA People's Historian Passes Away
TRIBUTEDeath snatched away Dr Amalendu Guha, a historian, an economist, a prolific writer and a Marxist whose ideological conviction remained unshaken till the last day of his life. He breathed his...
View ArticleThe Indian National Congress: It Is Back
One of the least prepossessing features of some recent Indian journalism—especially of the electronic channels—has been an unpleasantly motivated obsession with Rahul Gandhi. Barring a few “senior”...
View ArticleDo Our Leaders Follow Kings' Six Qualities? Do they Avoid 14 Vices? Are...
IMPRESSIONSThese are frustrating times. True, there are big things that put India on centre-stage, such as the Prime Minister's visit to China. But there are also petty things that shame us. We have...
View ArticleIndia Tries to Forge a New Relationship With China
The visit by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to China last week (May 14-16) was never going to be easy. Modi was hard-pressed to juggle his agenda of economic reinvigoration at home (“development...
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