JNU: What is at Stake?
by Shruti JainA mother, also a student of the JNU, was carrying her daughter on her back, straining to listen to a teacher over thousands of other students and teachers gathered on Saturday evening at...
View ArticleThe Ugly Face of ‘Hindu' Nationalism
by Arup Kumar SenThe recent arrest of the JNU Students' Union President, Kanhaiya Kumar, on the charge of sedition, thrashing him by a section of “lawyers” in the court premises on his way to the...
View ArticleBeating of Kanhaiya Kumar in Court brings back Memories of Babri Masjid...
The manner in which Jawaharal Nehru University Students' Union President Kanhaiya Kumar was roughed up in the Patiala House Court premises, while being brought to be produced in the court room, in the...
View ArticleJNU Crackdown: Politics of Paranoia around Sedition can Singe Rajnath
by Bharat BhushanThe primary casualty of the fiasco at the Capital's Jawaharlal Nehru University and the paranoid politics being promoted in the country is not likely to be the JNU Students' Union...
View ArticlePM Modi fears Conspiracies against Him
The following article was written just before the Budget session of Parliament that began on February 23, 2016.There is no conceivable reason why a government which commands the support of 282...
View ArticleDrawing the Battle-lines
POLITICAL NOTEBOOKThe debate in Parliament on Rohith Vemula's suicide and the subsequent incidents in the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) has brought out in sharp relief the respective positions of...
View ArticleA Note on “Anti-National”
I am past the half-way mark between sixty years and seventy, but I did not until recently hear the expression “anti-national”, which is now flying around like a swarm of maddened bees. Just what might...
View ArticleEighth March in Today's Context
WOMEN'S WORLDby Gargi ChakravarttyEighth March, the International Women's Day, is a milestone in the women's movement. It was Clara Zetkin who proposed, at the Second International Conference of...
View ArticleLeaders beyond Stereotype
From N.C.'s WritingsIn the midst of the pressure and pulls of contemporary politics, certain significant developments seem to have escaped notice. Some of these are too conspicuous, and yet one hardly...
View ArticleReal and True Nationalism
by P. C. JainThe recent episode at JNU involving the student community has resurrected an old debate on Nationalism and Patriotism that had long been forgotten. What is Nationalism? and what is...
View ArticleLord, Why am I Banned from Your Abode? Women's Entry into Places of Worship
by Ram PuniyaniOne is witnessing strange incidents where the women from Muslim and Hindu community are facing similar obstacles. This relates to the issue of entry into places of worship. While the...
View ArticleGST: Palatable for Industry, Sour for Fiscal-Federalism
by A.V. V. S. K. Rao“Taxes are the Sinews of the State.”—CiceroA ViewpointSo far in India, right from suppliers of raw materials, manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers and ultimately consumers—all are...
View ArticleUnion Budget 2016-17: Transforming Rural India
by P.K. Bhargava and Jyoti BhargavaThe importance of agriculture as also of the rural sector cannot be undermined in India as a large part of the population still lives in the villages and earns its...
View ArticleIn the Name of Nationalism
by Imtiaz Ahmad Ansari“The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.”— Lao Tzu Kanhaiya Kumar, the JNUSU President, is finally out on bail. The controversy...
View ArticleA Warm-Hearted Friend
TRIBUTEPurno Agitok Sangma, who passed away in New Delhi on March 4 at the age of 68, was one of the few illustrious political leaders India's North-East has produced. His wide circle of friends and...
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On Jaitley's Claim and Charge of ‘Sedition'
EDITORIALFinance Minister Arun Jailtley, speaking in his capacity as the Number Two person in the Narendra Modi Government, has made a facile claim at a conference of the BJP's youth wing that the...
View ArticleThe Uncommitted Sin
He is a guileless fellow of the seraphic land,_ He is a naïve lad of the rustic terrain,_ He is a clueless fellow of the world outside,_ He is a darling of his parents,_ He is the sole glitter of his...
View ArticlePirates of the Realm
Never was a more truthful thingWrit than “those that haveShall get”; thus when pirateIs let loot the realm and best“Investigating agencies”, thisIs done in the “national interest”.Just as recoveries of...
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Unequal exchange system — a variant of bonded labour system
Article 19 (g) of the Constitution of India confers on every citizen of India the fundamental right to practise any profession or to carry on any occupation, trade or business. By implication, it would...
View ArticlePushing Hazardous GM Food Crops— Reason Trampled, Trust Betrayed
While India's first GM crop, Bt cotton, has proved to be risky and hazardous in many ways, there was at least a saving grace that the introduction of the highly hazardous GM technology was confined so...
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