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• On 105th birth anniversary of Nikhil Chakravartty on November 3, 2018 - Some Tributes (published after his death)

  3 November
  Former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao was to have released the book India-Pakistan: Themes Beyond Borders—Selections from Nikhil Chakravartty’s Writings (published by Konark Publishers Pvt. Ltd.) at the meeting held in New Delhi on November 3,  (...)

• Sacrifice at the Altar of Development

  3 November
  TRIBUTE
  by Medha Patkar and Sandeep Pandey
  The legendary Professor Guru Das Agrawal, who got promoted from a Lecturer directly to Professor at the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur after having finished his Ph.D from the  (...)

• National Security Adviser Sermonises on National Governance

  3 November
  by Gautam Sen
  India’s National Security Adviser (NSA), Ajit Doval, has given a clarion call for a strong and decisive government for at least ten years, while delivering the latest Sarder Patel Memorial Lecture entitled “Dream India : 2030”. The  (...)

• Telangana caretaker CM K. Chandrasekhara Rao

  3 November, by T J S George
  IMPRESSIONS
  As Chief Ministers go, K. Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR) is in a class of his own. He is known as an effective speaker and he is a good tactician. These were factors in the success of his mission to carve Telangana out of the original  (...)

• Poetry of Pain, Life and Death

  3 November
  BOOK REVIEW
  by H.K. Dua
  My Soul Flower, a collection of poems by Lavlin Thadani; published by Authors Press; pages: 287.
  In the 21st century India, we the people, are increasingly becoming dots and digits. Only an unanimated table of algorithms  (...)

• Strong Democracy at Work

  3 November, by Badri Raina
  A strong democratic state
  Must learn from the sultanate;
  It better know who does what
  At any hour of day and night.
  So, first, the various agencies
  Must spy on recalcitrant citizen;
  Then they must do so to each other,—
  The IB on the CBI, and both  (...)

• Bhanwari Devi, the First Victim of Sexual Violence as a Worker

  3 November
  by Basudev Mazumdar
  In the wake of the #MeToo campaign by educated, employed and largely empowered urban women no one should forget the extreme plight of Bhanwari Devi of Rajasthan who worked as a ‘saathin’ for the family welfare programme long  (...)

• The Kathua Rape: Looking for Dharmic Justice

  3 November
  by Arup Kumar Sen
  About 10 months ago, a minor girl of the nomadic Bakerwal community was allegedly gangraped and murdered in a village of Jammu’s Kathua district. This savage act has more or less got erased from our collective memory.  (...)
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  Rafale Deal: The Noose Tightens

  28 October
  POLITICAL NOTEBOOK
  Congress President Rahul Gandhi’s press conference in New Delhi today saw his fiercest attack on Narendra Modi on the Rafale deal. Without mincing words Rahul bluntly said CBI Director Alok Verma was removed well after  (...)

• Dussehra Message of the RSS Sarsanghchalak

  28 October
  by Irfan Engineer
  The RSS Sarsanghchalak, Shri Mohan Bhagwat, urged the Central Government to bring in a law for construction of the Ram temple at the site where Babri Masjid once stood. Shri Bhagwat was addressing the customary Vijayadashami  (...)

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