Growing Threat of Islamic State for Central Asia
by R.G. GidadhubliCooperation and coordination to deal with threats of terrorism and extremism, especially from the rapid rise of the Islamic State (IS), have been discussed by Prime Minister Narendra...
View ArticleDestablised Middle-East
The Islamic State (IS) has created a support base in Iraq and Syria. When its fighters get bombed and ousted from one place, they appear in another, as happened in April when their fighters were driven...
View ArticleRespect Rights of Political Prisoners
COMMUNICATIONSerious concern was expressed recently by the judiciary at the serious health problems faced by political prisoners like Kobad Ghandy and G.N. Saibaba. First court orders were given for...
View ArticleStray Thoughts after Pradyot's Death: Lal salaam!
by Manjula LalThe following is a piece written for Mainstream after journalist Pradyot Lal's sudden demise by his wife, also a well-known journalist who is a Consulting Editor of Tehelka.Can the state...
View ArticleThe Unsung, but Not Unmourned, Death of a Journalist: The life and times of...
TRIBUTEOne can't see memorial lectures in his honour, nor medallions at convocations in schools of journalism. Some would say he wasted his life. He was not a celebrity. And most young contract workers...
View ArticleNaked Display of Haughtiness and Arrogance
EDITORIALAs one watches the Opposition blockade of Parliament for three successive days demanding that the External Affairs Minister and the CMs of Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh first tender their...
View ArticleUntouchability, Political and Social
COMMUNICATIONPM Narendra Modi said in Jammu on July 17, 2015 that there is no untouchability in politics. He was referring to coalitions with different parties at various point of time. But...
View ArticleWhy A Case Against Kancha Ilaiah?
Professor Kancha Ilaiah is the Director of the Centre for Social Exclusion in the Maulana Azad University in Hyderabad. All through his life as an academician, he has ignited minds by raising important...
View ArticleThirty Years of Narmada struggle
Call upon the Government of India to Review Decision on Sardar Sarovar Project and Expedite Rehabilitation as per Law and Judicial OrdersThat the struggle of the people in the Narmada valley is...
View ArticleIndian Math Nobel Laureate joins Protest against Arun Shourie
by Subhankar GuptaProf Sathamangalam Ranga Iyengar Srinivasa Varadhan, the greatest living Indian Amerian mathematician and recipient of the Abel prize, considered as the Nobel Prize in Mathematics,...
View ArticleRecovering a Lost Chapter in History of Women's Movement
book reviewCharting A New Path: Early Years of National Federation of Indian Women by Gargi Chakravartty and Supriya Chotani; People's Publishing House, New Delhi; 2014; pages: i to xix and 360; Rs 300...
View ArticleOn BJP's Election Manifesto
Last March, the Government of Goa completed three years of its rule. Yet, the assurances given at the time of the Assembly elections remain unfulfilled to this day. The ruling party had promised...
View ArticleDynamics of India-Mongolia Relations: Spiritual Neighbour to Strategic...
by Madan YadavIntroductionGeopolitical and geo-economic factors, strategic counter-balance against China in Central Asia and South-East Asia are the new dynamic approach of Indian diplomacy with...
View ArticleTV Entertainment Industry in India: Characteristics and Trends
by Naresh NadeemThe paper presented here, an impressionistic account, deals with the TV entertainment media in India, its course of development, its characteristics, and its implications and lessons...
View ArticleToday's Political Killers ...of Human Forms, of Communities, of Institutions..
MUSINGSToday's political rulers are killing. Spreading their tactics beyond Gujarat... the ongoing killings in Madhya Pradesh are nothing short of silencing witnesses and whistle-blowers. Anyone who...
View ArticleStory of two Travel Documents
India's major political parties, the Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), have rendered Parliament to a place of tamasha. They pick up a small matter, hardly worth a mention, and stretch it to a...
View ArticleThe Desert Winds
From N.C.'s WritingsAgainst the backdrop of PM Narendra Modi's forthcoming visit to Israel, the following piece by N.C. that appeared under the ‘New Delhi Skyline' in Mainstream more than 48 years ago...
View ArticleBangalore Citizens Decry State-sponsored Intimidation of Human Rights Activists
The following is a statement by the Bangalore citizens against state-sponsored intimidation of human rights activists and civil society organisations.The CBI raid on the residence and office of...
View ArticlePADS Condemns CBI Raids at Premises of Teesta and Javed
The People's Alliance for Democracy and Secularism (PADS) strongly condemns the CBI raids on July, 14 2015 at the premises of social activist Teesta Setalvad, her husband, Javed Anand, Gulam Mohammed...
View ArticleStop Ceasefire Violations, restore peace in Border Areas - Statement by...
The following is a Joint Statement issued by the Pakistan and India Chapters of the Pakistan-India Peoples' Forum for Pece and Democracy on July 23, 2015The PIPFPD urges India and Pakistan to...
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