More than 300 days of Hate and Communal Violence
COMMUNICATIONWe are really proud of the most distinctive features of our country, that is, it is the largest parliamentary democracy of the world, the abode of the highly precious national composite...
View ArticleContours of China Crisis
From N.C.'s WritingsTwentysix years ago, N.C. had left for China when the Tiananmen bloodbath took place on June 4, 1989. Apart from his despatches which appeared in The Times of India on the tragedy...
View ArticleKarnataka Legislators are India's Best Paid Legislators
With the passing of the twoBills—the Karnataka Ministers Salaries and Allowances (Amendment) Bill, 2015 and the Karnataka Legislature Salaries, Pensions and allowances (Amendment) Bill, 2015—on March...
View ArticleLaloo's Politics of exploiting Nitish's BJP Phobia
by Arun SrivastavaAfter strangulating the move for the unified Janata Parivar, the RJD chief, Laloo Prasad, is on the mission to downsize Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. Laloo is more virulent in...
View ArticleOn Goa's Statehood Day
On May 30 we celebrate the Goa Statehood Day. On this day, in 1987, Goa ceased to be an Union Territory and became the 25th State of the Union of India.Goa was liberated from the colonial rule in...
View ArticleVice-Chancellors and Education Ministers compete to keep India's Standards...
IMPRESSIONSThis is a real-life story that should worry us all because it shows how qualified Indians are defeated by our astonishingly inefficient system, in this case a university. This young man (YM)...
View ArticleSCO's Role in Afghanistan: Prospects and Challenges
by Raj Kumar SharmaPresident of Afghanistan Ashraf Ghani had to delay his recent visit to India by a few hours as the Taliban intensified its spring offensive against the Afghan National Security...
View ArticleModi in the Gobi Desert
A high-level visit is always best assessed the morning after. Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Mongolia offers a keyhole to take a peep at his visit to China (from where he headed for...
View ArticleReality and Illusion
Last year, when the BJP with Modi as the Prime Minister romped home with an overwhelming majority of its own, people thought that for the next few years this government was untouchable and any mass...
View ArticleModi's Non-rule
Information Minister Arun Jaitley is inviting editors from different parts of India to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi to underline the achievements of his of first-year rule. This public relations...
View ArticleMajor Development Challenges facing the Telangana State
It is a privilege for me to get this opportunity for meeting and interacting with the first elected representatives of the Telangana State. After its creation as a separate State, Telangana is better...
View ArticleCaste in British General Elections 2015? What Rubbish!
Part-IBogey of Religious Persecutiondrove Voters of British Hindus to Conservative FoldAn English daily, published from many world capitals, broke the news with an unbelievable headline: “UK Election:...
View ArticleModi's Assurances and Reality of Ballabhgarh
MUSINGSCouldn't be a better managed stage-show. The BJP's Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi collects a dozen so-called ‘Muslim leaders', makes them sit around Prime Minister Modi, and then starts off the highlight...
View ArticleModi's Date with Dhaka
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is keeping up his hectic schedule of undertaking official visits to foreign countries in pursuit of India's interests in its bilateral relationship with these countries....
View ArticleDisturbing Developments
EDITORIALTwenty soldiers were killed and over a dozen sustained injuries in a clinically executed ambush in Manipur's Chandel district last morning (June 4). This was the deadliest terror attack on...
View ArticleIs This Not Corruption?
MUSINGSIf Cabinet Ministers and Chief Ministers helping fugitives is not corruption then what is it? Nah, in this day and age there is nothing called humanitarian help! External Affairs Minister Sushma...
View ArticleExtreme Distress of Maruti Workers and their Family Members
Following certain tragic incidents at the Manesar (Haryana) plant of Maruti Suzuki on July 18, 2012—which led to the death of a human resources manager—as many as 147 workers of this plant were...
View ArticleWarmongers in India, Pakistan Denounced
The following is a statement issued on June 16 by the Indian and Pakistani Chapters of the Pakistan-India Peoples' Forum for Peace and Democracy.We, the peace loving people of Pakistan and India, are...
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Theoretical Perspective of Decentralisation,...
by John S. Moolakkattu and Jos ChathukulamIntroduction Decentralisation has a long history. Political thinkers from Montesquieu to Madison suggest that decentralised governance can contribute to...
View ArticleReaching out to our Neighbour / India-Pakistan: Imperative of Amity
From N.C.'s WritingsReaching out to our NeighbourIndo-Pak relations have again come under a cloud. The tension over Kashmir and the recent border skirmishes have touched off speculations about an...
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