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• Battle of Karbala Revisited

  12 November
  BOOK REVIEW
  by K.S. Subramanian
  Ocean of Melancholy: The Tragedy that was Karbala by Mir Mosharraf Hossain; Niyogi Books, New Delhi; 2018; Price: Rs 395.
  The battle of Karbala in Iraq in 680 CE was a watershed in the historical development of  (...)

• Twin Birds at Bay: The Economics Nobel Prize for 2018

  12 November
  by Atanu Sengupta and Sanjoy De
  Introduction
  TheNobel Memorial Prize for Economic Sciences was started from 1969. It was a rather late realisation of the donors of the prestigious accreditation. Controversies arose from the beginning. Some said  (...)

• Colonial Discourse in Kashmir: Revisiting the Role of Robert Thorp

  12 November
  by Mohammad Ashraf Khwaja
  Robert Thorp, a British Army officer, is believed to have visited Kashmir as a tourist in 1865 when Maharaja Ranbir Singh was the ruler of the state. A theory is being developed by some ‘Thorp sympathisers’ that he was  (...)

• Need for People’s Mobilisation on Land Reforms

  12 November
  COMMUNICATION
  On October 2, the Gandhi Jayanti Day, nearly 25,000 landless rural workers and adivasi peasants from various parts of India assembled at Gwalior and a huge meeting on land-related issues was organised as a part of a wider  (...)

• Transgender Bill: Exploring the Fault Lines and Suggesting Remedies

  12 November
  by Shubham Kumar and Shubham Patel
  “I am what I am, so take me as I am.”
  —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  1. Introduction
  Transgenders, as defined in National Legal Services Authority v. Union of India (NALSA), are “male and female cross-dressers  (...)
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  Foremost Task before us Today

  3 November, by SC
  EDITORIAL
  As the air quality in the Capital touches “severe” levels with a toxic haze hanging over Delhi with citizens residing in the National Capital Region experiencing burning sensation in the eyes, nose and throat, October 31—an important  (...)

• Justice At Last!

  3 November
  COMMENTARY
  After more than 31 years justice has at long last been delivered in the 1987 Hashimpura massacre of 42 Muslim men who were shot dead in cold blood by policemen belonging to the UP Provincial Armed Constabulary. What is noteworthy is  (...)

• Sri Lanka: Let Parliament Express Its Will

  3 November
  by Mohan K. Tikku
  It has been a time of great political uncertainty in Sri Lanka since Friday (October 26) when President Mathripala Sirisena announced the appointment of former President Mahinda Rajapakse as the new Prime Minister of the  (...)

• Dire Threat to Peace: A New Nuclear Arms Race Has Begun

  3 November
  by Mikhail Gorbachev
  Over 30 years ago, President Ronald Reagan and I signed in Washington the United States-Soviet Treaty on the elimination of intermediate-
  and shorter-range missiles. For the first time in history, two classes of nuclear  (...)

• Selected articles - from Early Recollections to Some Editorials, Commentaries

  3 November, by Nikhil Chakravartty
  After N.C.’s demise on June 27, 1998 three pieces were recovered from his notes as evidence that he had started writing his autobiography. Since November 3 this year happens to be his 105th birth anniversary, we are carrying the following piece  (...)

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