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• Lynching of Psyches!

  5 August, by Humra Quraishi
  MUSINGS
  A few years back, when I had first heard a well-known Delhi University professor talk in an open forum of the twisted history taught in the RSS-run schools, it was more than shocking as she had actually read out several of the communally  (...)

• Laloo is a Natural Target in the Fight against Corruption, but the Problem is Larger. All Parties are Guilty

  5 August, by T J S George
  IMPRESSIONS
  Mention corruption, and the names of some politicians jump out like registered trademarks. Laloo Prasad Yadav is right when he says that the BJP Government is hunting him for political reasons. The government has indeed been using  (...)

• Hindi Spread requires Patience

  5 August, by Kuldip Nayar
  Whenever a State language wants to spread itself to the national sphere, it naturally meets with some resistance. The limits of both are delineated. One is confined to the State while the other has the entire country for its spread.
  The  (...)

• The Epidemic of Lynching: It’s a crying shame on humanity

  5 August
  by M.A. Sofi
  Witness the pall of gloom that has enveloped the vale of Kashmir over a long period of time and which of late has assumed staggering proportions as a result of unprecedented violence having been unleashed there following innumerable  (...)

• Nazism and Corporate Power

  5 August
  by Arup Kumar Sen
  Very recently, I chanced upon a book, IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance between Nazi Germany and America’s Most Powerful Corporation, written by Edwin Black (Crown Books, New York, 2001). The book “tells the story of  (...)

• On Continuing Caste Violence in Saharanpur, UP - People’s Alliance for Democracy and Secularism’s Public Statement

  5 August
  DOCUMENT
  The following is a statement issued by the Convener of the People’s Alliance for Democracy and Secularism (PADS), Battini Rao.
  Fiftyfive Dalit houses were burnt down during the afternoon of May 5 in Shabbirpur village of Saharanpur in  (...)

• Global Times Lashes out at India: Doval visit won’t sway China over border standoff

  5 August
  The following is a recent editorial that appeared in China’s official organ, Global Times (July 25, 2017), bringing out its no-holds-barred attack on India over the Doklam standoff.
  India’s National Security Adviser Ajit Doval is to visit China  (...)

• Anguish, not Anger / Riding the Tiger

  5 August, by Nikhil Chakravartty
  From N.C.’s Writings
  Anguish, not Anger
  The countdown for a national crisis of fearsome dimension has begun. The build-up of a nationwide communal conflict could be discerned, as one finds that the feverish activity for the building of the Ram  (...)

• Indo-Israel Strategic Relations within the framework of Hindutva Philosophy

  5 August
  by Arun Srivastava
  Two remarks by the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, are yet to make any significant sense: First, the marriage between Israel and India was made in heaven. Benjamin did not elaborate the nature of the marriage,  (...)

• India-Israel Relations

  5 August, by Eduardo Faleiro
  Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Israel from July 4 to 6. Modi is the first ever Indian Prime Minister to visit Israel. Indo-Israeli relations have witnessed a sharp upswing since the present government came to power and there has been an  (...)

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