Modi's Trips to China, Mongolia, South Korea: Treading Carefully
The Prime Minister, Narendra Modi's China visit must be intriguing experts and amateurs alike. There was a huge line-up list to be addressed. But the impression, that it was being negotiated withal...
View ArticleAn Indefensible Decision
by Kaleeswaram RajChief Justice H.L Dattu has refused to participate in the National Judicial Appointment Commission (NJAC) which practically “stalled any immediate chances of constituting the new...
View ArticleUnmasking Modi Government's Real Intentions
EDITORIALPM Narendra Modi has returned from his sojourn to China, Mongolia and South Korea, and is now busy preparing himself to celebrate the first anniversary of his advent to power at the Centre....
View ArticleRevisiting P.C. Joshi in Today's Context
BOOK REVIEWPeople's ‘Warrior': Words and Worlds of P.C. Joshi by Gargi Chakravartty (ed.); Tulika Books, New Delhi; 2014; 474 + xxii pages; Rs 995.It is an irony of history that P.C. Joshi, the...
View ArticleNehru's Struggle for Secularism
The French writer, André Malraux, had once asked Jawaharlal Nehru what had been his “greatest difficulty since independence”. Nehru's instant reply was: “Creating a just state by just means.” Soon he...
View ArticleNehru's Chairmanship of Allahabad's Municipality, 1925-1927 its relevance for...
by Urvashi DhamijaWhile the cityscape of Allahabad may be quite unremarkable today, the management of its municipality under the leadership of Jawaharlal Nehru from 1925 till 1927 is generally regarded...
View ArticleNehru's Scientific Attitude
Science has brought all these mighty changes and not all of them have been for the good of humanity. But the most vital and hopeful of the changes that it has brought about has been the development of...
View ArticleReflections on Nehru
I loved and respected him, worked with him and even followed him in many ways, and yet I was among his severest critics, and perhaps no one was a greater disappointment to me and to my group than...
View ArticleNehru for Today
May 27 this year marks Jawaharlal Nehru's fiftyfirst death anniversary. On this occasion we remember him by reproducing the following excerpts from his speeches and writings. We are also reproducing...
View ArticleIndia without Nehru
From N.C.'s WritingsThe following piece, which appeared in the ‘New Delhi Skyline' of Mainstream, was written two days after Jawaharlal Nehru's demise on May 27, 1964. It was published on May 30,...
View ArticleMinorities under PM Modi: A Landscape scarred with Hate, Violence, Impunity
On the night of Monday, June 4, 2015, less than a fortnight of the swearing in of the new government headed by Narendra Modi, 28-year-old Information Technology manager Mohsin Mohammed Shaikh was...
View ArticleGen Musharraf's Outbursts
I have not been able to make out why General Pervez Musharraf, who is under house arrest on charge of treason, has made a public speech on the Kargil war which I watched on a television channel. Prime...
View ArticleA Year to Remember
If words were deeds,And catch-phrases files,If sophistry were argument,And achievement intent,The strong man with fifty-Six inch starched frontispiece Has indeed fulfilled every Bharti's needs to...
View ArticleModi's One Year As Prime Minister
How does one prepare the report-card on the performance of one year of the NDA Government headed by Narendra Modi? There are obvious contradictions in the ideological conviction and commitments of the...
View ArticlePro-Corporate Modi Government's First Anniversary: A Year of Anti-people and...
by S. Sudhakar ReddyThe Narendra Modi-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) Government, as it completes its first year of rule on May 26, 2015, has to its credit an unprecedented ignominious record of...
View ArticleOne Year of NDA Rule: Issue is not Activity but its Direction
IntroductionThe NDA Government, that is completing one year, started with tall promises during election rallies as well as in its manifesto. It is time to assess whether the government has been able to...
View ArticleOn Modi Government's First Anniversary
EDITORIALThe Narendra Modi Government completed one year in office on May 26, that is, last Tuesday. How has the country fared in the last one year?—that is the biggest question in the people's mind...
View ArticleM.L. Sondhi Prize to Aaron Friedberg
Dr Aaron Friedberg (Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University) was awarded the Professor M.L. Sondhi Prize for International Politics for 2013 on May 5, 2015 at New Delhi...
View ArticleManufacturing and Undermining National Icons, RSS Style
by Ram PuniyaniMany a social and political processes related to projection of some icons and undermining of the others have intensified during the last few years. Even during the last regime of the...
View ArticleOn Attacks on DUTA President by DU Authorities
COMMUNICATIONThe CCTAD notes with concern and condemns the repeated attacks on Dr Nandita Narain, the President of the DUTA, by the DU authorities and St. Stephens College. The attempt is to weaken the...
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