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• Ethnic Divide

  17 June
  by Samit Kar
  The Right to Cessation among the people of Darjeeling began to snowball since the formation of Sikkim as a separate State in 1975 at the behest of Indira Gandhi. The creation of Sikkim also led to a gradual deterioration of  (...)

• Narendra Modi Regime’s ‘Genes are Totalitarian’

  17 June
  by Arun Shourie
  Veteran journalist and former Bharatiya Janata Party Minister Arun Shourie on June 9, 2017 warned the media against becoming the Narendra Modi Government’s “instruments for distracting your viewers and readers...from the main  (...)

• Demonetisation X-rayed

  17 June
  by H.K. Dua
  The following is an Introduction to a new book, Demonetisation : The Jury is Still Out, edited by the author who has sent this for publication in Mainstream. The book, now under print, is likely to be out in the next few days.
  Prime  (...)

• Cow and Hindutva: Myths and Facts

  17 June, by Shamsul Islam
  The Hindutva juggernaut, which rode on with Ram, love jihaad and ghar wapsi on top of it, is riding with the cow this time. There have been countless incidents of lynching, maiming and robbing of Muslims and Dalits in the name of saving holy  (...)

• When Trump calls for a war against Islamic terrorism and praises its historical promoter, it is hypocrisy

  17 June, by T J S George
  IMPRESSIONS
  Abu Zubaydah, a “high-value” associate of fellow Saudi Arabian Osama bin Laden, was captured by America’s CIA from a safe house in Pakistan in 2002. (Pakistan’s ISI got $ 10 million for services rendered.) Badly wounded, Zubaydah was  (...)

• Trump condemns Qatar, sets Middle East on fire

  17 June, by M K Bhadrakumar
  In a shocking performance by his own standards, US President Donald Trump tore into Qatar in highly inflammatory language accusing it as a state sponsoring terrorism and casting it as an adversary of the United States.
  Make no mistake, this was  (...)

• Nationalising’ Workforce: Indian Labour and Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh

  17 June
  by Navneet Sharma and Divyanshu Patel
  Workers of the world, Unite.—Marx
  Workers, Unite the world.—Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh
  If unity is to be of an abiding factor, it must be founded on a sense of kinship.—B.R. Ambedkar
  Class, as an economic  (...)

• Contours of China Crisis

  17 June, by Nikhil Chakravartty
  From N.C.’s Writings
  Twentyeight years ago, N.C. had left for China when the Tiananmen bloodbath took place on June 4, 1989. Apart from his despatches which appeared in The Times of India on the tragedy that befell that great country at that  (...)

• Babri Trial, Attack on R. Sooraj

  17 June, by Humra Quraishi
  MUSINGS
  After 25 Years, Advani and Company Stand in The Dock!
  The Babri Masjid was destroyed by L.K. Advani, Uma Bharati, Murli Manohar Joshi and hundreds of kar sevaks in the winter of 1992. Yet, instead of getting discarded from the political  (...)

• Three years down the lane, has the Modi Government taken the citizens for a ride?

  17 June
  by Ram Puniyani
  On May 26, 2017, the Modi Government completed three years in office. Various programmes such as the Modi fest were organised at various places and there are plans to celebrate them in different cities across the country. The  (...)

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