Protecting Tribal Land and Livelihood: Tribal Minister's New Initiative
Recently the Union Minister for Tribal Affairs and Panchayat Raj, V. Kishore Chandra Deo, created a stir by asking the Andhra Pradesh Government to cancel the lease of seven bauxite mines in...
View ArticleRSS Affiliation No Guarantee of Good Values
Anjali Damania, the anti-corruption volunteer, is the daughter of an RSS worker of long, and brought up to believe in the values of clean and patriotic conduct. Such are the facts she has revealed in...
View ArticleHeightening Anti-Graft Movement
After the exposure of Robert Vadra's land deals, concrete charges against Union Law Minister Salman Khurshid have come to the fore. India Against Corruption (IAC) levelled serious allegations against...
View Article1962: Twenty Years Later
The following article, by an acknowledged authority on China's international relations, appeared on the twentieth anniversary of the Sino-India border conflict in Mainstream (October 30, 1982). Dr Mira...
View ArticleIndia-China: Reflections on 1962
FROM N.C.'S WRITINGSThis week, thirty years ago, the Chinese Army had mounted a full-scale military attack along the entire length of our northern border. For three years previous to that there were...
View ArticleChinese Attack and CPI
On the occasion of the Chinese aggression's fiftieth auniversary this month we are continuing to publish and reproduce relevant articles on the subject.The Chinese pinpricks on the border continued all...
View ArticleThe Jingle of Coins
MEDIAWhat the New Yorker, an American fortnightly, has told about the Jain brothers, Samir and Vineet, presiding over The Times of India group, has been known to most. The contribution by the New...
View ArticleSome Thoughts on the Syed Kazmi Case
Syed Mohammad Ahmad Kazmi, an Indian journalist who lived in Delhi and had worked with the Iranian news agency IRNA since 1988, was picked up by the police in the forenoon of March 6, 2012. The time of...
View ArticleHeralding Irreversibility of the ‘Twentyfirst Century Socialism' Project
HUGO CHAVEZ'S VICTORY IN VENEZUELAby SRINIVASAN RAMANINullifying the dire projections from the Western media about a possible end to the Hugo Chavez's presidency in Venezuela, the leader of the Partido...
View ArticleWorld Food Day and We, the People, Resolve
by SOHEB LOKHANDWALA“To those who are hungry, God is bread,” is what Mahatma Gandhi said before independence (1946). Now the question is whether it is valid even after 65 years of our freedom....
View ArticleOn Malala and Our ‘Malalas'
MUSINGSMalala … what a lovely name. And with that her very spirit, her grit. Her beautiful eyes and that innocence writ large. For minutes at a stretch I'd sat staring at her well-featured face, and...
View ArticleAgreement between the Ministry of Rural Development (GOI) and Jan Satyagraha
DOCUMENT ON LAND REFORMS1. National Land Reforms Policy: While land reforms is clearly a State subject under the Constitution, the MoRD acknowledges that a National Land Reforms Policy announced by the...
View ArticleAfter Fifty Years
Fifty years have passed since the troops of the People's Liberation Army (PLA), under the directive of Chairman Mao Zedong and his colleagues in the Chinese Communist Party (CPP) leadership in Beijing,...
View ArticleThe Right to Privacy Does Not Mean the Right to Do Wrong in Private
IMPRESSIONSThe bad news is that there seems to be no end to the plundering of India. Sign any deal, there is kickback. Auction any resource, there is quid pro quo. Spot any stretch of land, there is...
View ArticleClean JP versus Corrupt Dynasty
Rvolutionaries have a short span of fame. They are forgotten sooner than their length of struggle and sacrifice has lasted. Mahatma Gandhi, who ousted the British rule, is mostly remembered because of...
View ArticleA Ray of Hope in an Atmosphere of Despair
Saeeda Diep is a Lahore-based activist who has been working consistently on issues of human rights, women's rights, democracy, against patriarchy, feudalism and communalism and on peace and friendship...
View ArticleMyth, Reality and Moral Science
by A. RASHIDThe paradox, which every religion has been grappling with unsuccessfully, is this. On the one hand it demands blind faith to accept its tenets and on the other it tries to make those tenets...
View ArticleTwo Eminent Editors and a Young Reporter
COMMUNICATIONSeveral eminent contemporaries of Nikhil Chakravartty have already written about his many-sided accomplishments, and what I can add may appear relatively quite insignificant in comparison....
View ArticleA Saint Editor
Nikhilda had turned eightyfour. Some people live for hundred years and stay perfectly agile, alert and healthy. Though he had an ageing physique, Nikhilda was not a person who would live by obeying the...
View ArticleNikhil
It was the mid-forties that I first came across Nikhil. Bundle, my eldest brother, belonged to the outer fringe of the Indian Communist students group formed in England in the late 1930s. Indrajit...
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