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• Rubble

  24 March
  You lifted one fistful of salt
  And an empire was shamed. 
  Lift
  One fistful of rubble
  Now
  And pour it on our shameless heads.
  December 6, 1992, Gopal Gandhi
  (Published on December 13, 1992 in The Hindu from where it is reproduced with due  (...)

• Remembering Dr Mubashir Hasan

  24 March
  Dr Mubashir Hasan, 98, one of the most prominent crusaders for India-Pakistan amity at the people’s level besides being an outstanding champion of democracy in Pakistan, breathed his last at his residence in Lahore on March 14, 2020 leaving  (...)

• Mubashir Hasan

  24 March, by Syeda Hameed
  TRIBUTE
  Woh dekha jaye kab ye zulm dekha jaaye hai mujh se
  (How shall I bear to see this, this injustice) 
  Ghalib*
  Who was he?
  Statesman poet writer ornithologist visionary?
  His tall frame
  Strode across South Asia
  Rose to pinnacle of power
  Rose  (...)

• Mubashir Hasan: A man who yearned for Peace through Empowerment of People in the Subcontinent

  24 March, by Tapan Bose
  TRIBUTE
  Dr Mubashir Hasan, founder and the guiding spirit of Pakistan-India Peoples’ Forum for Peace and Democracy, is no more. The subcontinent has lost a great crusader for the rights of the poor and peace between India and Pakistan. Since  (...)

• BJP’s Hatred Campaign continues Unabated

  24 March
  by Arun Srivastava
  Modi has himself to blame for the battering his image received in the wake of the communal riots in Delhi. What is really intriguing is even after this he has not taken the steps to tighten the screw and put the people  (...)

• Destroying Constitutional ‘Fraternity’: NPR-NRC from Assam to All-India

  24 March, by S G Vombatkere
  There was public alarm following enactment of the CAA-2019. The 2003 Rules [Citizenship (Registration of Citizens and Issue of National Identity Cards) Rules, 2003] may not have been examined in detail had the CAA-2019 not been enacted with the  (...)

• CAA: Should the United Nations norms be respected in Domestic Policies?

  24 March
  by Ram Puniyani
  In the wake of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), the UN High Commissioner, Michele Bachelet, has filed an intervention in the Supreme Court petition challenging the constitutionality of the Citizenship Amendment Act, as she is  (...)

• Can Modi-Trump Bromance Really Improve India-US Ties?

  24 March, by M K Bhadrakumar
  The distinctly low-key rhetoric in America in the run-up to US President Donald J. Trump’s visit to India stands in sharp contrast to the traditional approach to such high-level events in recent times.
  The American think-tanks and mainstream  (...)

• Anatomy of Lynching under BJP Rule in India

  24 March
  BOOK REVIEW
  by Mohammad Chingiz Khan
  Lynch Files: The Forgotten Saga of Victims of Hate Crime by Ziya Us Salam; pp. i to xxvi, 193; New Delhi: SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd.; 2019; Rs 450.
  The comprehensive treatise of eminent journalist and  (...)

• No Afghan Ceasefire

  24 March
  by Harish Chandola
  The US appears keen keen to reduce its military presence and forces in Afghanistan, if the government there manages to arrive at some understanding with the Taliban, fighting to establish an Islamic state in that country.
  The  (...)

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