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• State Murderers of Jamal Khashogi and their Cohorts Must Not Get Away

  17 March
  by Gautam Sen
  Jamal Ahmed Khashoggi, a journalist of the Washington Post newspaper of the USA, was brutally and in a unique diabolical manner, put to death on October 2, 2018 when he went to obtain documents connected with his proposed marriage  (...)

• The Anatomy of Capital Punishment in India

  17 March
  by Saumitra Mohan
  Prison administration is an inalienable part of our justice delivery system which, many feel, calls for urgent relook and attention. The prison administration in India has existed almost unchanged since its inception though a  (...)

• Ten Per Cent Quota: The Megalomania of Savarna Reservation

  17 March
  by Navneet Sharma and Anamica
  “The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of  (...)

• Leaves from the Jungle and Anthropological Jigsaw

  17 March, by J.J. Roy Burman
  Introduction
  The anthropological method did not exist the way we know today almost a century back. It was established through prolonged field data collection, as was established by Malinowski in the study of the Trobriand Islands in the Western  (...)

• Subhas Mukhopadhyay: A Heretical Bengali Intellectual

  17 March, by Arup Kumar Sen
  Poet Subhas Mukhopadhyay’s birth centenary was recently observed in February 2019. An article on him appeared in Mainstream (March 2, 2019). This is another article on the poet. It was sent to us quite sometime ago but could not be used earlier  (...)

• Anatomy of Governance in Kashmir over the Years

  17 March
  BOOK REVIEW
  by Muzamil Yaqoob
  What Happened to Governance in Kashmir? by Aijaz Ashraf Wani; Oxford University Press; 2019; pp. 387; Rs 995.
  “Breakdown occurs when a civilisation fails to respond creatively to its challenges. Instead of changing  (...)

• In My Own Voice: Kashmiriyat

  17 March, by Sagari Chhabra
  This article, carried in www.newsclick.in some days ago, is being reproduced here, with due acknowledgement, for the benefit of our readers.
  ‘Mere samne waali khidki mein Ek chand ka tukra rehta hai; Afsos yeh hai, ki vo hamse, Kuch ukhda ukhda  (...)

• Let’s Not Seek Vengeance

  17 March
  Oh, forty-plus martyred soldiers, I know not
  Any of you, even if you are my fellow citizens.
  To tell you the truth, I hate soldiers,
  As I hate wars for which soldiers are meant.
  I hate patriotism that warrants wars;
  I hate seeing our neighbour  (...)
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  Democracy in Danger

  11 March, by SC
  EDITORIAL
  As we go to press news has come of a terror strike in Jammu. An explosive plannted under a bus in a crowded bus terminal in the city led to injury to 30 persons following the explosion in the bus with one of the injured succumbing to  (...)

• War is No Solution: It only Causes Loss of Near and Dear Ones

  11 March
  by Purusottam Bhattacharya
  The terror attack carried out by the Pakistani outfit, Jaish-e-Mohammed, on the CRPF convoy on the Jammu-Srinagar highway at Pulwama in south Kashmir on February 14 is unprecedented. Forty CRPF jawans lost their lives.  (...)

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