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• What would they do to prevent the Enemy?

  18 May
  by Binoy Viswam
  These eventful days of hectic electioneering reveal the real character and content of Indian politics of the present and future. In the ultimate analysis, this war between various political parties and coalitions broadly point to  (...)

• From ‘fiction to reality’ : Zelenskiy Emerges Victorious in Ukraine’s Presidential Poll

  18 May
  by R.G. Gidadhubli
  The Ukrainian presidential election, held on April 21, 2019, has created history by electing 41-year-old comedian Volodymyr Zelenskiy as the head of state with a landslide victory; he secured 73 per cent of votes against  (...)

• Social Justice in India: An Adivasi Perspective

  18 May
  by Nayakara Veeresha
  February 20 is observed every year since 2009 by the United Nations as the “World Day of Social Justice (WDSJ)”. The purpose is to take stock of the plight of injustice across the globe and to push for tenable solutions in  (...)

• Are Facts also Partial Truths?

  18 May, by Badri Raina
  If a fact is a fact is a fact is a fact,
  And truths are multiple,
  Then every fact may have a truth
  That justifies a quibble.
  Would there be words were it not so—
  Words on words on words—
  Would we distrust what exists,
  But trust an absent God?
  The  (...)

• Sri Lankan Crisis: Return of Religious Violence

  18 May
  by Sudhir Hindwan
  Condemnation should ring out loud and clear against the consecutive serial suicide bombings ripping apart churches and hotels, and killing more than 250 people while leaving over 500 injured on Easter Sunday in Sri Lanka. There  (...)

• Thinking beyond War: An Analysis of India-Pakistan Relationship Post-Pulwama

  18 May
  by Debtanu Majee
  India and Pakistan shared a malevolent relationship from the very inception of both the countries. Pakistan was the product of the divide and rule policy followed by the British between the Hindus and Muslims. The  (...)

• Dr Meher Engineer

  18 May, by SC
  TRIBUTE
  When West Bengal was in the throes of the 2019 parliamentary election campaign, noted scientist, social worker and leading associate of popular movements, Dr Meher Engineer, 80, breathed his last in Kolkata’s ‘Parsi Old Age Home’ on April  (...)
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  Murkier Poll Campaign, Frightening Prospects

  14 May, by SC
  EDITORIAL
  As the parliamentary elections for the 17th Lok Sabha are drawing to a close within a few days, the election campaign is becoming increasingly murkier.
  One has just returned from a fleeting visit to Lucknow but even in the short span  (...)

• Balancing Economics and Politics in Elections

  14 May
  by Joseph Abraham
  For the vast majority of the Indian electorate, the current elections appear to be a complex decision-making process between the economic gains of the pro-poor welfare schemes of political parties and the concerns of the  (...)

• Judicial Activism, Right or Wrong

  14 May, by Nikhil Chakravartty
  From N.C.’s Writings
  When politicians as a community are in a state of siege in the eyes of the public, it is extremely short-sighted on the part of any government to make any move that may appear to the public as a means to cover up or to close  (...)

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