Jawaharlal Nehru and Socialism
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru had been the Prime Minister of India from 1947 to 1964. He made an important contribution to the building of modern India during his prime ministership. In 1956 Nehru was...
View ArticleThe Mission of Religion: Hierarchy, Power and Emancipation in Indian...
by Sri Ram PandeyaWith the advent of modernity, the Middle Ages were characterised as dark ages as the Church had assumed power at that time (in the Middle Ages) and it produced knowledge as a...
View ArticleWhy Narendra Modi Lost the Historic Battle of Bihar
by Arun SrivastavaThe BJP-led NDA, which was riding high on the Narendra Modi wave, eventually lost to the mahagathbandhan in the Bihar elections. After being severely mauled in the Delhi elections...
View ArticleBihar Verdict Checked Intolerance and Defeated the Politics of Hate
Historical Background of BiharHistorically, Gautam Buddha was born in Bihar (in Lumbini, now in Nepal). The famous Indian thinker, Chanakya, was from Bihar and so was Aryabhatt. Between the 5th and 7th...
View ArticleHas Modi's Magic Waned?
Whether or not the Narendra Modi magic has waned or whether the strategy of campai-gning had been faulty, the fact remains that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has been routed in Bihar. The BJP is...
View ArticleThe Fall of the Tinsel God
How the mighty have fallen fits in completely with the rout of the BJP in the recently held elections to the Bihar Assembly! To any analyst it looked that it was going to be a close fight —it is no...
View ArticleIndia Loses Way in its Neighbourhood
At a meeting with the President of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) at his residence in New Delhi on November 6, the functionaries of the Hindu nationalist organi-sation Rashtriya...
View ArticleModi At Wembley: Empire Strikes Back in a Football Stadium
by L.K. SharmaMove over Bollywod! Move over Hollywood! Modiwood rules the world! Prime Minister Modi's London show on November 13, 2015 will be recorded as a landmark event in the history of the...
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Paris and Burma: Complex Global Reality
POLITICAL NOTEBOOKThe entire West, led by the United States, has vowed to wage a ‘fight-to-the-finish' battle against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). Terrorists of the ISIS made a bloodbath...
View ArticleWriters, Scientists, Artists Cannot See their Land Wrecked by Fascist Forces
MUSINGSWhilst the 2002 Gujarat pogrom was peaking, I was attending a Governing Council meet of one of the colleges here in this Capital city. Seated next to me was a woman lawyer who later became one...
View ArticleRestoring Peace and Democracy in Chhattisgarh: Inherent Message of a...
BOOK REVIEWInside Chhattisgarh: A Political Memoir by Ilina Sen; Penguin Books India; 2014; pages: 307; Price: Rs 399.This is an extraordinary book, based on an unusual life-journey, rooted in search...
View ArticleWe Need No Taliban Here
From N.C.'s WritingsMaqbool Fida Husain is at the very centre of a storm whose after-effects are extremely relevant for our democracy—both for the democratic structure of our state and for the...
View ArticleApne Apne Ram: The God of Politics
by Navneet Sharma and Pradeep NairRam naam sat haiThe above sentence literally states a divine matter of fact that the Ram (the God) is the only universal truth but obtains a very different meaning in...
View ArticleClaims over Kohinoor
The British establishment must have prevailed upon Prime Minister Narendra Modi not to mention Kohinoor during his official visit to the United Kingdom. Otherwise, it is not under-standable why he did...
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Protecting Farmers, Reducing Emissions: Integrating Climate Change Concerns...
I. IntroductionThe seriousness of climate change and the urgency of related adaptation and mitigation actions are by now scientifically well established. Despite this, its significance in terms of...
View ArticleSelf-Destructive Politics of BJP
well under two years of its rule, the BJP Government appears to be fast losing its steam; by all indications it has started huffing and puffing. Before that it found little difficulty in whipping up...
View ArticleTreading Lightly to Freedom in Myanmar
The Aung San Suu Kyi-led National League for Democracy's clean sweep in the November 8 elections in Myanmar surprised those who thought that the embers of the 1990 outcome had finally died down. The...
View ArticleIslamic State's Defeats in Iraq
The Paris carnage of Friday, November 13, could have been a consequence of the Islamic State's (IS') major losses in its war in Iraq in the previous month of October. The IS possibly wanted to...
View ArticleFrom Paris to Beirut: Is the War Against ISIS Losing Sight of its...
by Sanjal ShastriFrom the recent string of terror attacks in Beirut to the (alleged) bombing of the Russian airliner in Egypt and the carnage in Paris—all these clearly point to a strong ISIS link. It...
View ArticleKobad Ghandy's Request for Urgent Appeal to Release him on Bail
ON GROUNDS OF AGE AND SERIOUS HEALTH CONDITIONSKobad Ghandy's Request for Urgent Appeal to Release him on BailKobad Ghandy wrote the following note on November 10, 2015 and sent it to us for...
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