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• What is Happening in my Beloved Country?

  7 September, by Sagari Chhabra
  Recently there was disturbing news that the seven accused in rioting which led to the lynching of Subodh Kumar Singh in Buland-shahr—the policeman who was also investi-gating Mohammad Akhlaq’s lynching—were out on bail and received a hero’s  (...)

• Dragging Armed Forces into Political Dragnet

  7 September
  by M.P. Nathanael
  Perhaps for the first time in the history of election campaigning in our country, the success of the security forces in various operations against terrorists and even Pakistani soldiers and airmen across the borders was  (...)

• All’s Okay in the Valley!

  7 September, by Humra Quraishi
  MUSINGS
  Why were several prominent parliamen-tarians from the Opposition political parties denied entry into the Kashmir Valley? So that they don’t get to hear the human cries, those appeals to be set free from the caged settings, from the  (...)

• Freedom of the Press in the Age of Internet

  7 September, by John Dayal
  MEDIA
  A major television channel owned by the country’s second biggest news conglomerate has announced it is launching a campaign to expose foreign agencies working in India, such as the British Broadcasting Corporation, and Al Jazeera for their  (...)

• What Makes Srinagar the World’s New ‘Forbidden City’

  7 September, by Badri Raina
  Addressing the National Urban Development Summit in Gurgaon recently, Minister of State Rao Inderjit Singh lamented that China has been able to grow faster than India, which is “handicapped” being a “democracy”.
  If the recent events in Hong Kong and  (...)

• Majoritarian Politics will Doom Democracy in India

  7 September
  by Mustafa Khan
  To protect democracy in India it is necessary to prepare for a long drawn out war of which the context of 2019 election in West Bengal is an example of a battle only. However the NCP leader got a wrong import of it as if it  (...)

• Kashmir Issue and India-Pakistan Relations

  7 September
  by B. Vivekanandan
  As the Kashmir issue has been made a flash-point of India-Pakistan relationship, which has stimulated a voluntary offer from the US President Donald Trump to become a mediator of it, and in the context of Prime Minister Imran  (...)

• Social Governance among Gurjars by the Gurjars in Rajasthan

  7 September
  by Mahi Pal
  Introduction
  In Rajasthan, after the reservation movement, the Gurjar caste became a household name across the country. There were reasons for that in terms of their poverty and unemployment. Besides, they were annoyed with the  (...)

• Narmada Movement Demands Need Wide Support

  7 September
  COMMUNICATION
  On September 2 Medha Patkar and nine persons affected by the submergence of the Sardar Sarovar Dam ended their nine-day fast after receiving assurances from the Madhya Pradesh Government that the State Government will be giving  (...)

• Normalcy

  7 September, by Badri Raina
  Landlines are up.
  Normalcy is on the way.
  Soon other things will follow,
  As they learn to obey.
  Schools are open too.
  The children may not be there,
  But no normalcy can be lasting
  Without an element of fear.
  The trust of the people will be won  (...)

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