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• Warning Note from the Past

  by SC
  Sixty years ago in a message to the nation on the occasion of India becoming a Republic, our first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, who was aptly described as the architect of modern India, conveyed the following warning note:
  We are fortunate  (...)

• Happy New Year? For Whom?

  by T J S George
  IMPRESSIONS
  There’s a brand new addition to our National Register of Shame. The law has been amended to allow free air travel, business class, to “any number of companions and relatives” of Ministers. MPs were already enjoying this obscene  (...)

• Netaji on Our Freedom Struggle and India after Independence

  On the occasion of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s 113th birth annivarsary on January 23 this year we offer our homage to the memory of that indomitable freedom figher by reproducing excerpts from his speeches and writings.
  This is Subhas Chandra  (...)

• Lead, kindly Light....

  by From NC’s Writings
  Every year we dutifully go through the ritual of offering homage to Gandhiji on the day of his martyrdom.
  We shall once again be witnessing the ceremony on January 30 to be conducted as per protocol—early morning prayer at Rajghat, singing  (...)

• Towards Violent Uprising?

  COMMUNICATION
  What is new about the presence of a few policemen at the new year party toasted by an NCP politician, allegedly for and on behalf of an underworld don? The fact that many politicians, and quite a few men in khaki, have always had  (...)

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