An Incomplete Version
I believe that a head of state should not publish his memoirs while in office. Political parties are reluctant to criticise him because he is the constitutional head, as much theirs as that of those...
View ArticleMeticulous Research to Understand India's Revolutionary History
BOOK REVIEWA Revolutionary History of Interwar India—Violence, Image, Voice and Text by Kama Maclean; Hurst and Company, London; First edition: 2015; 342 pages; price not mentioned.One would be rather...
View ArticleWhy do budgets always squeeze the middle class? Why should Secrecy cover...
IMPRESSIONSIndian budgets are presented on the last day of February so that Parliament and the government will have all of March to discuss and finetune it before a new financial year begins on April...
View ArticleBihar Assembly Election Verdict 2015
by Sujit LahiryThe verdict in the Bihar Assembly elections in 2015 has some politically significant impli-cations not only for regional politics, but also for national politics. The Grand Alliance won...
View ArticleAmbedkar on Bhagat Singh
Legendary freedom fighter and martyr Bhagat Singh's birth centenary was observed on September 28, 2007. On the occasion of the eightyfifth anniversary of his martyrdom, we are reproducing, with due...
View ArticleHow Aadhaar Neglects Personal Privacy and National Security
The Aadhaar Bill, 2016The Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Bill, 2016 (“Aadhaar Bill”, for short) was passed in the Lok Sabha on March 11, 2016, as a...
View ArticleStatement of Indian Workers' Association, Great Britain on Current Situation...
DOCUMENT• Release JNU students Omar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya immediately!!• Release Delhi University Professors S.A.R. Geelani and G.N. Saibaba immediately!!• Abolish Capital Punishment! Abolish...
View ArticleWhy the Historians are under Attack
by Vivek Kumar SrivastavaThere is onslaught from the cultural nationalists on the history books which are being taught in post-independent India. A demand for history rewriting will emerge again with...
View ArticleReflections from Eden Gardens
From N.C.'s WritingsThere is much to learn for ourselves from the stormy experiences of the World Cup cricket that we all have been watching excitedly in the last two weeks, particularly from what...
View ArticleDynamics of Rural Labour Markets in India: Recent Trends and Policy Concerns
The following is the author's inaugural address at the National Seminar on ‘Dynamics of Rural Labour Relations/Markets in India: Issues, Dimensions and Processes', S.R. Sankaran Chair (Rural Labour),...
View ArticleUndermining Democracy: Stifling Academic Institutions
by Ram PuniyaniFollowing the death of Rohith Vemula in the Hyderabad Central University (HCU), one of the most prestigious universities of the country, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), has been...
View ArticleSliding Popularity of Right-wing Politics
Hardly two months back nobody would have thought that PM Narendra Modi's authority would be questioned by ordinary university students on campuses. The campaign which brought Modi to power in Delhi was...
View ArticleLal, Neel and Kanhaiya
by Nagender RaoPrime Minister Modi's administration brought pseudo-nationalism as its core agenda after failing to keep its election promises. The current chief of the RSS established its command and...
View Article‘Art of Living' or ‘Art of Ecocide'?
by M.C. PindwalThe world cultural event on the Yamuna river-bed took place from March 11 to 13, 2016. This happened at the cost of the poor living and surviving on the riverbed; it is they who have...
View ArticleState Elections and Challenge for Democracy
POLITICAL NOTEBOOKUntil recently, the BJP was eyeing Assam as the only winnable State among the five States that are going to the polls this summer. But the situation has changed in the last few weeks....
View ArticleThe Horror, the Horror / Speaking of Which
Two Poems of Badri RainaThe Horror, the HorrorDid he just have anotherUnauthorised thought?To the House of Correction,Then, where all thoughtBut the authorised oneIs quickly forgot. After all,If the...
View ArticleUrgent Need to Halt Onward March of Fascism
In my article “Videshi and Swadeshi Fascism” published in Mainstream of August 7, 2004, I had delineated in some detail incidents of a fascist mode occurring in our country. Even after more than...
View ArticleWest Asia: Latest Ankara-Riyadh Strategy in Syria
by Hasan HamidullahThe emergence of the Russian Air Force in Syria at a time when many had predicted the capture of Damascus by the ISIL and other fundamentalist elements within a brief spell, has...
View ArticleIndia snubs an American Admiral
According to the Delhi grapevine, Americans, in their private conversations with Indian interlocutors who are opinion-makers, have been badmouthing Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar—just as they used...
View ArticleWhat we Learn and Teach in JNU
The discussion on JNU in Parliament brought out the political divide on the issue of nationalism and the functioning of the institutions of higher education in the country. JNU has been under severe...
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