Terror in Europe, Intolerance in India
EDITORIALSpeaking at Kuala Lumpur while addressing the Indian diaspora there, PM Narendra Modi made a significant assertion last Sunday (November 22). This had not come from him in India. He...
View ArticleErdogan's Game and Turkey's Western Allies
by Hasan HamidullahBy now it is getting increasingly clear by the day that the Turkish Government of President Recip Tayyap Erodogan is doing everything possible to help the Islamic State in every way...
View ArticleWhy So Tolerant?
by Ayaz AhmadThe heated debate on so-called intolerance and Award Wapsi keeps throwing up an obvious question, why now? What has happened after the ascent of the BJP/RSS to power at the Centre and in...
View ArticleShowcasing Challenges before the Kerala Economy in Post-Reform Period
BOOK REVIEWby Renji George AmballoorKerala Economy and its Emerging Issues by V. Mathew Kurien and Raju John; Sahitya Pravarthaka Co-operative Society Limited, Kottayam; 2014; pp. 400; Rs 350.Kerala...
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NREGA in Punjab — A Cause for Concern
by S.C. SharmaThe following is a study based on the results of a field survey undertaken by the author for the Research Project “Impact of NREG Scheme on Rural Economy of Punjab: A Case Study of Three...
View ArticleHuman Rights: Basic Issues
From N.C.'s WritingsHuman Rights Day is observed on December 10 every year commemorating the day, in 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. To mark...
View ArticleRevisiting the World of Keya
Keya Chakraborty (1942-1977) was a legendary actress on the Bengali stage in the late 1960s and 1970s. She died a mysterious death while shooting for a Bengali film, Jeevan Jey Rakam (Life as it is)....
View ArticleUnfortunate Woman
WOMEN'S WORLD‘Oh poor India!... How sad! The country, whose male population is unkind, unreligious and unaware of the distinction between good and evil and doesn't care about justice and fairness and...
View ArticleBihar Election Results: Time to Introspect!
by Sudhanshu TripathiThe stunning victory of the “Mahagathbandhan”in Bihar has left the main Opposition, the Bharatiya Janata Party-led NDA, shell-shocked, which will have to review its strategy that...
View ArticleResurgence of the Communist Revolutionary Force in Bihar
by Arun SrivastavaIn globalised India, the Left appears to be in a state of inertia; losing initiative and ideological mooring. With the state abandoning its responsibility towards the people, its...
View ArticleMy Take on Award Wapsi
by Mathew VargheseAward wapsi has suddenly become fashionable among the writers and artists. The number is growing steadily. There is so much intolerance how can we be silent?—is the rhetoric. Don't...
View ArticleSaudi-US policies led to IS. Ignore this fact and face the ‘Islamisation of...
IMPRESSIONSWestern powers have pooled their formi-dable military resources to punish ISIS for its terrorism. But they may not succeed because they are themselves the Frankensteins who produced the...
View ArticleTurkey and Red Line in India-Russia Friendship
Having lived and worked as a diplomat in the ‘Soviet space' and in Turkey for over a decade of the best years of my life, the current tensions playing out between these two historical rivals present an...
View ArticleIs the Ice Melting?
Suddenly there was summer. A chance 160-second meeting between Prime Ministers Narendra Modi and Nawaz Sharif has melted the ice, which seemed frozen beyond change. The about-turn indicates that the...
View ArticlePublic Intervention Despite Heavy Odds
EDITORIALThe most significant of the political developments of the last few days was captured by The Indian Express headline of December 7: “India, Pakistan break the ice off camera in Bangkok”—a...
View ArticleBani Deshpande Is No More
Veteran Communist leader Vidyadhar Laxman Deshpande alias Bani Deshpande, 88, passed away in Mumbai after a brief illness on December 4, 2015. He is survived by his wife, Roza Deshpande, a former MP...
View ArticleCentenary of First Independent Government of India Ignored
The Union Government (as well as the Opposition in Parliament) totally forgot the historic significance of December 1 this year: the centenary of the first Independent Government of...
View ArticleUnbecoming of a leader as Prime Minister
by M.C. PindwalThe recent statement of the former Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, to the Centreal Bureau of Investigation, the premier investigation agency of the Central Government, that he had...
View ArticleStop the Government from Committing Higher Education to WTO!
DOCUMENTThe All India Forum of Right to Education (AIFRTE) circulated the following leaflet analysing why it is imperative that the ‘offer' of committing our higher education for market access to...
View ArticleImpact of the Black Economy in India: Brief Report of a Seminar
by Arun Kumar, Sunil Dharan and Astha AhujaThe Sukhamoy Chakravarty Chair, CESP, JNU, in collaboration with Tax Justice Network, London organized a seminar on ‘Black Economy in India, its Global...
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