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  Indo-US Defence Deal: What does it Presage?

  9 September
  POLITICAL NOTEBOOK
  The Indo-US Defence Deal was signed in New Delhi today. It draws India closer into the US orbit. We are of course threatened by a hostile China. The US wants to build up India militarily as a bulwark against China’s  (...)

• Will the RSS Answer First ?

  9 September, by Badri Raina
  It has been clear in recent days that the RSS is seeking to enhance its political footprint. To this purpose it has been staging meetings and conferences to which people from outside the sphere of the Sangh have been invited, including some who  (...)

• Atal Behari Vajpayee’s Homage to Jawaharlal Nehru on Panditji’s Death

  9 September
  DOCUMENT
  In the wake of all kinds of things being spoken and written about former PM A.B. Vajpayee by leaders and followers of the Sangh Parivar after his passing away, it is worthwhile to recall the homage that Vajpayee had paid in Parliament  (...)

• Which Party cares for Dalits Today?

  9 September
  by Ram Puniyani
  Recently anti-Dalit atrocity laws were first diluted inserting the clause of anticipatory bail. Following this there were serious protests all over. In these protests, the anti-Dalit nature of the present ruling dispensation, the  (...)

• The Larger Picture on GDP Numbers

  9 September
  by Arun Kumar
  The new data on the GDP have raised a political storm, with the back series for GDP growth since 1993-94 becoming available. Its importance lies in the fact that in 2015, a new series was announced which showed India’s GDP growing  (...)

• Russia and China in Alliance Conditions

  9 September, by M K Bhadrakumar
  Three things stand out in the remarks made by the Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, on Tuesday (August 28) in the context of Russia’s forthcoming Vostok-2018 military exercise in the Trans-Baikal Region in East Siberia during September 11-15.
  At  (...)

• Naipaul: An Abandoned Child looks and relooks at the Motherland

  9 September
  by L.K. Sharma
  Naipaul always felt that his books would stand the test of time. But which of his books on India, after multiple visits to his ancestral land, will stand that test?
  Naipaul was obsessed with the idea of exile. His composite hero  (...)

• The Best and the Worst on Show

  9 September, by T J S George
  IMPRESSIONS
  How many will learn how many lessons from the floods that devastated Kerala and Kodagu? The most important lesson is bound to go unlearned—that, ultimately, these were again examples of nature collapsing under the impact of human  (...)

• Pentagon’s Loss

  9 September, by Nikhil Chakravartty
  From N.C.’s Writings
  Last month was observed the thirtieth death anniversary of General Zia-ul-Haq, Pakistan’s third military dictator, who was killed in an air crash in that country in August 1988. Despite the repeated anti-US demonstrations in  (...)

• Democracy Under Siege!

  9 September
  The following statement was issued on August 31, 2018 by the New Socialist Initiative (NSI) on the recent arrests of human rights defenders and public intellectuals.
  The New Socialist Initiative strongly condemns the arbitrary and malicious  (...)

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