Whiplash for the Union Government
by Sadhan MukherjeeThere seems to be no political leadership worth the name in the country today despite the massive majority of the present ruling dispensation, the NDA 2. The whoopla of 2014 is over....
View ArticleBose unnecessarily Maligned
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has done well to declassify the files on Subhas Chandra Bose. Prime Minister Narendra Modi should have followed suit and made available to the public the...
View ArticleIs Untouchability in India Created by Islam?
by Kancha Ilaiah and Mohasina Anjum AnsariUnouchability is a major social issue in India, even in the modern times. In the recent past it had also become an international issue. In 2001 at the United...
View ArticleGirls who Demanded Adequate Teachers in School Lathi-charged, Injured
COMMUNICATIONAt a time when the government is supposed to be committed to implementing the Right to Education legislation, students, particularly girl students, of a school in Tonk district of...
View ArticleInflux of Refugees and Humanitarian Crisis in Europe
The ugly face of human tragedy was unfolded when the world saw shocking images of the lifeless body of three-year-old Syrian boy, Alyanc Kurdi. Alyan's five-year-old brother Galip, and mother Rehan,...
View ArticleRefugee Influx in Europe
by M.C. PindwalIndia is a house of multiple religions and faiths followed by a heterogeneous mixture of believers of various sects that flourish together with a sense of tolerance whereas this kind of...
View ArticleIndia-Bangladesh: Reviewing the Enclave Exchange
by Saumitra MohanBoundaries between nation-states are reflections of the interplay of the forces of history, politics and wars but oftentimes they could be simply a manifestation of a shoddy and hasty...
View ArticleLessons from Meerut
V.R. Krishna Iyer, former Judge of the Supreme Court of India and Home Minister in the CPI-led government in Kerala (1957-59), visited in 1982 Meerut where communal tension had been persisting for over...
View ArticleSecularism on Trial
From N.C.'s WritingsWe as a nation are proud of the fact that we are a secular democracy. The test of our secularism does not consist in our protestations, however loud these may be, but in the manner...
View ArticleDog, man's best friend, has turned into a problem. Others control it with...
IMPRESSIONSWe can understand the controversy over beef; it is a subject intertwined with spirituality, faith and nowadays fanatic intolerance. But dogs? In no culture is the dog an object of canonical...
View ArticleContinuity and Change within the Sangh Parivar
by Irfan EngineerOur PM Narendra Modi travels across the globe soliciting global capital to India and announces various deals making India a very attractive destination for multinational capital to...
View ArticleDo Not Play With Fire
The recent Vedic Sanskrit conference held at University of Delhi shows a deliberate effort being made by the BJP Government to create a divisive strategy. No, I have nothing against Sanskrit. I myself...
View ArticleRise of the Hindu Right
POLITICAL NOTEBOOKIn the competitive radicalism of the Hindu Right the Shiv Sena is trying to upstage the Sangh Parivar. The latest instance of this is blackening the face of Sudheendra Kulkarni, a...
View ArticleGovernments Neglecting RTI Responsibilities
COMMUNICATIONThe completion of 10 years of the Right to Information (RTI) is a cause for celebration. India's RTI law has been widely recognised as one of the best legislations on this issue in the...
View ArticleThe Lost World: Oscillating between Hope and Despair
REVIEW ARTICLEby L.K. SharmaBuilding A Just World: Essays in Honour of Muchkund Dubey edited by Manoranjan Mohanty, Vinod C. Khanna and Biswajit Dhar with a Foreword by Boutros Boutros-Ghali; Orient...
View ArticleHow Nepal was ‘Lost': An Exquisite Foreign Policy Disaster in Kathmandu
by Harish KhareThese days, one can't swing a dead cat in New Delhi without hitting a professionally wise person who can be relied upon to rapturously proclaim how Narendra Modi has “won” and...
View ArticleTribute to R.M. Pal
Dr R.M. Pal, a well-known educationist and human rights activist, is no more. He breathed his last in Thane, where he was staying with his wife for the last several years, on October 13, 2015 at the...
View ArticleMood in Kashmir Valley
MUSINGSI have been restless and upset by the disgustingly communal moves of the govern-ment of the day. And in the midst of this I decided to travel to the Kashmir Valley to report on the flood...
View ArticleKerala mid-term elections: Dress Rehearsal for 1972
by C. Achutha MenonKerala has been the laboratory for all kinds of political experiments, especially for various kinds of United Fronts with all sorts of permutations and combinations among a variety...
View ArticleKerala and Beyond
From N.C.'s WritingsKerala has a remarkable capacity of being the harbinger of significant developments in Indian politics. In 1957, a new element in Indian democracy—the Communists in office—appeared...
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