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Mayawati’s Gerrymandering: Fourfold Division of UP
27 December 2011, by A K BiswasThe State of Uttar Pradesh—at the bottom in the club of India’s sick States, BIMARU1—seems to stand at a crossroad. The UP Assembly has adopted a resolution on November 21, 2011 for a fourfold division of the State, which, according to the latest (...) -
Kashmir: Whither Strategy?
27 December 2011by ALI AHMED
It is often said that India does not have a strategic culture, implying that it is unable to think strategically. In other words, it cannot match ‘means’ with ‘ends’, or perhaps it is incapable of arriving at aims in the first place. (...) -
Terrorists can also Bestow Favours
27 December 2011, by M K BhadrakumarThe twin terrorist strikes on Tuesday (December 6, 2011) on Shi’ite worshipers in the Afghan capital Kabul and the northern city of Mazar-i-Shairf, killing 58 people, are an extraordinary event. Even in the darkest days of violence during the (...) -
Indo - Pak Relationship and Urdu: Companions in a Paradoxical Syndrome
27 December 2011by ATHER FAROUQUI
The state of the Urdu language and its literature in India, which, in its existing form, cannot play any positive role in Indo-Pak relations, forms the theme of this paper. By analysing contemporary socio-political conditions, (...) -
Dr Radhakrishnan’s Contribution to Contemporary Thought
27 December 2011, by Vinod AnandDr S. Radhakrishanan has a place of eminence amongst the most important thinkers of the contemporary world of philosophy and creative ideas. A man of very rare intellectual endowments, his fame rests securely on his creative interpreter of the (...) -
Durban Census: Prime Concern was Economy, not Environment
27 December 2011by BIJOY KAR
The Durban Climate Conference’s show of consensus has a bigger reason. Despite the world media’s tendency, the din over Durban could not match the “going, going, gone” screams from Angela Merkel, Nicolas Sarkozy and Co over the (...) -
Only Reacting, Not Acting
27 December 2011, by Mukul DubeThis piece of writing is inspired by a long telephone conversation with Harsh Kapoor (South Asia Citizens’ Wire, Communalism Watch, etc.) which followed a public meeting of Champa—the Amiya and B.G. Rao Foundation — at which the speakers were (...) -
Harvard Dumps Subramaniam Swamy
27 December 2011, by Subhash GatadeFREE SPEECH TO HATE SPEECH
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Mr Subramaniam Swamy must not have imagined in his wildest dreams that his alma mater would decide to ‘dump him’
The Harvard University faculty recently delivered its own ‘slap’ for one of its ex-students who also (...) -
Goddess Lakshmi and Cultural Traditions of Rice: Implications for Status of Women
27 December 2011, by Bidyut MohantyWOMEN’S WORLD
There is a worldwide concern at the falling proportion of the girl child in developing countries, especially in China and India, which are countries making news as rising economies. The recent census figures present an alarming (...) -
More on M.A. Jinnah
27 December 2011COMMUNICATION
With reference to the rejoinder of Dr Ajeet Jawed published in your esteemed journal dated November 26, 2011, I want to accept that M.A. Jinnah was a secular nationalist and joined the Muslim League on the advice of Gokhale to (...)