2013

• Daunting Scene, Hopeful Signs
  29 December 2013, by SC
  EDITORIAL
  After having crossed half-a-century of its chequered existence last year, this journal is now entering its fiftysecond year at a time when the scenario around us has turned out to be more daunting than before. And yet there are  (...)
• Fifty Years Ago: Indian Women’s Demonstration in Pretoria on Human Rights Day 1963
  29 December 2013
  by E.S. Reddy
  Introduction
  Fifty years ago, on December 10, 1963, police unleashed dogs against Indian women who came to Pretoria in a peaceful demonstration to present a petition to the South African Government against the Group Areas Act.  (...)
• Lesson from the Last of the Trimurthis: Only the Selfless reach Greatness
  29 December 2013, by T J S George
  IMPRESSIONS
  Like M.K. Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela marked his century with his imprint. While each of them played a seminal role in the shaping of his country’s history, all of them transcended their national confines to become  (...)
• His Undying Conviction in the Human Spirit and Global Good
  29 December 2013
  TRIBUTE
  I thank the President of the General Assembly for organising this ceremony.
  I extend a warm welcome to today’s special guests from many walks of life. 
  Those guests include Mr Enuga Reddy, a retired staff member who was among the many UN  (...)
• Nelson Mandela: His Life, his Thoughts
  29 December 2013
  TRIBUTE
  by Vivek Kumar Srivastava
  Nelson Mandela was released from prison on February 11, 1990, a day of liberation of humanity. He had spent a long time in Robben Island. His life was full of struggles. At the age of only twentynine years in  (...)
• Victory in Delhi
  29 December 2013, by Badri Raina
  The performance of the Aam Aadmi Party in the just concluded Assembly elections in the Capital city of India has been, however you look at it, a phenomenal event, and very likely a watershed departure in the political culture of Indian  (...)
• Electoral Nightmares of an NGO
  29 December 2013
  by Arun Srivastava
  The former BJP chief, Nitin Gadkari, has described the Aam Aadmi Party as Right-wing Maoism. Probably through coining this phrase he intended to send the message across that the AAP was an anarchist organisation, as the  (...)
• Behind AAP’s Bloodless Coup
  29 December 2013, by Humra Quraishi
  MUSINGS
  If the deadline for filing this column wasn’t coming in the way, this Wednesday afternoon—the day I’m filing this column—I would have been at the AAP office in New Delhi’s Connaught Place. In fact, the last two days I have been in and  (...)
• The Politics of Exoneration
  29 December 2013
  by Vasundhara Sirnate
  In leading discussions today in newspapers, political campaigns and on television, most party spokespersons opposing Narendra Modi as the prime ministerial candidate use one standard argument that revolves around condemning  (...)
• Statue of Unity: How the Varna Media is Loving It!
  29 December 2013, by Subhash Gatade
  The man who belonged to the whole country has now been abducted by Narendra Modi, a pracharak of the RSS, the communal organisation who the Sardar fought against throughout his life. ..The only purpose of the construction of the Sardar Patel  (...)

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