A Different Stroke: A Greenhorn in India's Internal Emergency Administration...
The Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA), Mussoorie dispatched 150 of us—all 1973 batch IAS officers—to different directions all over the country to report to the respective...
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by A.V.V.S.K. Rao“Two things are infinite:The Universe and human stupidity andI'm not sure about the Universe.”—Albert Einstein(1879-1955)IWhen India attained independence in 1947 the then Prime...
View ArticlePunjab: Paradox of Outward Prosperity and Deepening Problems
by Bharat Dogra, Jagmohan Singh and Reena MehtaThere has been a growing awareness in recent years that rise in the GDP need not necessarily be associated with increasing real welfare. This realisation...
View ArticleLetter to Friends and Relatives from Tihar Jail-3
The following letter reached us late. We are thus belatedly publishing it for the benefit of our readersin general and Kobad Ghandy's friends and relatives in particular.This is to thank you all ever...
View ArticleI Salute You
One more link with the past has gone,One more patriot gone to rest forever,United with history in the journal of her life.O, Aruna Asaf Ali, I salute youFor your tireless wanderingsThrough the maze of...
View ArticleAruna Asaf Ali: A Tribute
From N.C.'s WritingsGenerations spanning over centuries have been told that the French Revolution devoured its own children. In a sense, this could be said also of the Russian Revolution in which many...
View ArticleLooking back on August 1942
How do you reflect on those unforgettable days of August 1942 after fifty years?Aruna Asaf Ali: Gandhiji's ‘Do or Die' message and his statement that every person is his own leader thrilled the masses...
View ArticleJuly 16, 2015 marks Aruna Asaf Ali's 106th birth anniversary
Born as Aruna Ganguly in Barisal (now Bangladesh) on July 16, 1909, she emerged as one of the most striking freedom fighters especially in the last stage of our battle for emancipation from foreign...
View ArticleChinese Pundits tell Fairy Tales
Do not be surprised if after reading former Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran's column in the Business Standard newspaper, entitled “The Beijing paradox”, on a Track II in the Chinese capital, the Chinese...
View ArticleAfter Iran Deal and Modi-Sharif Talks
EDITORIALTwo major events have taken place on the global plane.On July 14 Iran and a group of six nations (five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany) clinched a final, historic deal...
View ArticleThe Image Is All
The view is held by many that we Indians are loud in whatever we do. To take a recent example, Kanak Mani Dixit of Nepal's Himal is reported to have said, of Indian media people in the aftermath of the...
View ArticleHighly Painful and Offensive Remarks of Prime Minister Modi
COMMUNICATIONKapil Sibal has rightly condemned Prime Minister Narendra Modi's remarks in Shanghai that Indians used to see their butt in India as a curse and a slight to national pride. He is cent per...
View ArticleWest Bengal Politics Recycled: Retrospect and Prospect
by Pratip ChattopadhyayIntroduction“Ek je chilo raja, tar bhaari dukhh...ahaa raja, kade raja...dakho raja ...bechara rajar aj bhari dukhh....”(There was a King immersed in sorrow... poor soul, the...
View ArticleMaking The Right Moves
Can we trust them? This is the burden of comments both in India and Pakistan after the meeting between Prime Ministers Narendra Modi and Nawaz Sharif. The reaction is no reflection on the effort the...
View ArticleBihar Elections 2015
Most political observers and commentators seem to agree that the coming elections to the Assembly in Bihar will not only be important but perhaps definitive in suggestging the shape of mainstream...
View ArticleIs It “Now Or Never” For India's Left Forces?: Innovate To Survive
The Left is usually associated with revolution. This is not surprising since “Left” has come to mean the socialist and communist political parties and organisations which adopt ideology according to...
View ArticleProspect from Simla
From N.C.'s WritingsThis month marked the 43rd anniversary of the Simla Summit. On this occasion, we reproduce the following piece by N.C. in ‘Editor's Notebook' (Mainstream, July 8, 1972). This needs...
View ArticleModi and the Naive Western Media
The enterprise of the post-Independence nation-building in India was given a short shrift right after 1991 with Manmohan Singh changing the essentials of the Nehruvian model of nation-building. The...
View ArticlePoliticians can no longer ignore Vyapam's point: That India is more than...
IMPRESSIONSOne of the misfortunes of our country is that everything is reduced to Congress vs BJP. This is because everything is political in nature, whether it is getting admission to a kindergarten,...
View ArticleThe Continuing Greek Tragedy: Scripting a Survival Strategy?
by V. Krishna MoorthyIntroduction: The HistoryAncient Greece, the birthplace of Western civilisation since about 2500 years ago, is known for its achievements in Philosophy, Sciences, Arts and...
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