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MDGs: India Has A Long Way To Go
16 March 2011, by Suranjita RayThe recent Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Review Summit in New York, the G-20 Summit in Seoul and the United Nations Human Development Report 2010 serve as reminders for the urgent need to narrow the inequalities and disparities within and (...) -
The Story of ‘Palestine Papers’
16 March 2011, by Sujata Ashwarya CheemaWe didn’t need the leaked Palestine Papers—more than 1600 internal Palestinian documents summarising negotiations with Israel over the past decade—to know that the two-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is all but dead. The absence (...) -
Plea for an Alternative Development Plan for West Bengal
16 March 2011, by Barun Das GuptaThe CPI-M took its massive victory in the 2006 Assembly elections to be a mandate for its policy of industrialisation of West Bengal by evicting thousands of peasant families from their hearths and homes and their farmland and forcibly acquiring (...) -
The Akali Accord
16 March 2011, by Nikhil ChakravarttyFROM N.C.’S WRITINGS
(On March 4, 2011 former Union HRD Minister Arjun Singh, 81, passed away in New Delhi’s All India Institute of Medical Sciences. Besides being an ardent loyalist of the Nehru-Gandhi family, he was a sturdy secularist and cast (...) -
The Tragic History of Muslim Complacency (1949-2010)
16 March 2011, by Syed ShahabuddinUNLAWFUL OCCUPATION OF BABRI MASJID, ITS CONVERSION INTO A MANDIR AND SUBSEQUENT DEMOLITION
Communal politics, partition and the migration of the Muslim elite from UP to Pakistan had all cast their shadows on Ayodhya around independence and the (...) -
Understanding Binayak Sen’s Victimhood
16 March 2011, by Arup Kumar SenDr Binayak Sen was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Raipur Sessions Court in Chhattisgarh for sedition on December 24, 2010. He was convicted under various sections of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and Chhattisgarh Special Public (...) -
On Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s Birth Centenary
16 March 2011The birth centenary of Faiz Ahmed Faiz, one of the most powerful Urdu poets of our subcontinent, was observed last month but even now several functions are being held in both Pakistan and India to commemorate the occasion and offer homage to his (...) -
Faiz: A Tribute
16 March 2011by S.M. Mehdi
Urdu can boast of many great poets—from Meer Taqi Meer of the 18th century to Josh, Firaq, Iqbal, Faiz and others of our own century. But few were recognised as great in their own life-time. Iqbal and Faiz were perhaps the only two (...) -
Struggle for Peace and Struggle for Independence are Indivisible
16 March 2011, by Faiz Ahmed FaizThe following is the acceptance speech of Faiz Ahmed Faiz on receiving the Lenin Peace Prize in 1962.
Creating words and shaping them in an orderly form is the vocation of poets and men of letters. But there are occasions in life when one is (...) -
Remembering Zahida Zaidi
15 March 2011Eminent scholars, colleagues, friends and relatives of Prof Zahida Zaidi gathered at the Arts Faculty of the Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh on March 1, 2011 to offer homage to Prof Zahida Zaidi, 82, the outstanding scholar, poet, dramatist, (...)
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