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• Homage to Kalpana Dutt who passed away 25 years ago

  9 February, by Nikhil Chakravartty
  From N.C.’s Writings
  Today is February 8, 2020. Twentyfive years ago on this day passed away the distinguished revolutionary, Kalpana Dutt, in Kolkata. The following lines were written by N.C. twentyfive years ago and published in this journal’s  (...)

• Mass Resistance to Majoritarian Onslaught

  27 January, by SC
  As we approach the seventieth anniversary of the declaration of the Indian Republic on January 26, our thoughts go back to the words of our first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in his message to the nation on our first Republic Day on January  (...)

• Women-led Revolutions: The Shaheen Bagh Protests

  27 January
  by Rushda Siddiqui
  Heading the anti-CAA/NPR/NRC protest are the women of Shaheen Bagh of Delhi, who came out on the night of December 15—when a protest by students of Delhi’s Jamia Millia Islamia ended with the police entering the hostels,  (...)

• Dayamoyee: A Blazing Star in Vidyasagar’s Neighbourhood

  27 January
  by A.K. Biswas
  The year 2020 marks the bicentennial celebration of educationist and social reformer, Iswar Chandra Bandyopadhyay, more popularly known and eulogised as Vidyasagar, who was born on September 26, 1820 in village Birsingha under  (...)

• Subhash Mukhopadhyay (1919-2003)

  27 January
  by Sourin Bhattacharya
  The following article was published in Indian Literature from where it is being reproduced with due acknowledgement.
  Subhash Mukhopadhyay, a major figure of Bangla poetry of the 1940s, passed away on July 8, 2003. His  (...)

• Religious Faith, Secularism and Gandhi

  27 January, by Gargi Chakravartty
  The following paper was presented at an International Winter School on “Globalistion and Religious Diversity: Issues, Perspectives and the Relevance of Gandhian Philosophy”, organised by the Ambedkar University, Delhi and Aarhus University, on  (...)

• Pardon Me For Writing

  27 January, by Sagari Chhabra
  Pardon me for writing
  For you have wrenched
  The tongue of the students
  And used their pens
  To impair their legs,
  Forcing your way
  Into their library.
  About entering the mosque
  I will not say,
  For now it is the norm
  To break mosques
  And to say  (...)

• Citizenship Amendment Act 2019: India and Its Neighbours

  27 January
  by Soumya Awasthi
  We, the people of India, having solemnly resolved to constitute India into a Sovereign, socialist, SECULAR, democratic republic and to secure to all its citizens: Justice, social, economic and political; Liberty of thought,  (...)

• In other words, who is lying?

  27 January, by T J S George
  IMPRESSIONS
  The President of India in June 2019, six months ago said: “My Government has decided to implement the process of NRC (National Register of Citizens).” The Prime Minister of India in December 2019, just a few days ago stated: “My  (...)

• Governor of Another Kind

  27 January, by Devaki Jain
  TRIBUTE
  Shri. T.N. Chaturvedi, was a Governor of another kind. I had a personal experience of witnessing how he conducted the business of a Governor. It was exemplary. He kept a distance from both bureaucracy and civil society but was always  (...)

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