by Ram Puniyani
Laws of nature cannot be applied to human society so directly. Still sometimes these have been used to explain/justify social catastrophes, ‘When a big tree falls, the earth shakes’ (in the aftermath of the anti-Sikh massacre of (...)
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Three Murders and a Lynching
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Rising Intolerance
4 November 2015, by Kuldip NayarWhen distinguished writers and artists return to the Akademis the awards which had been conferred on them, the question to ask is not why they did not do it earlier, say, at the worst times like the Emergency. Writers and artists are a sensitive (...) -
India-EU FTA: Time for a F undamental Rethink?
4 November 2015by Kavaljit Singh
India and the EU would soon resume negotiations on the stalled India-EU free trade agreement. In a joint statement issued by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and German Chancellor Angela Merkel in New Delhi on October 5, both (...) -
RSS forces a Tactical Shift in the BJP’s Style of Election Campaigning in Bihar
4 November 2015by Arun Srivastava
In a sudden tactical shift the BJP, instead of attacking Nitish and his claim of developing Bihar, has been seeking a clarification from him whether he would be able to keep his promises of reaching development to the (...) -
Bihar Poll: Mother of all Elections
4 November 2015by Sanjay Mishra
Dubbed as “the mother of all elections”, the five-phase election for the 243 seats of the Bihar Assembly has justifiably evoked a lot of media attention and buzz among political parties, psephologists and commentators. Bihar has (...) -
Nikhil Chakravartty and Some of his Times
4 November 2015, by Anil NauriyaThe Communist Party of India (CPI) was born in the aftermath of the ferment generated by the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 on the one hand and the non-co-operation movement led by Mahatma Gandhi and the Indian National Congress in the 1920s on (...) -
From the High Noon of Indian Journalism
4 November 2015, by John DayalIn the current wave of litterateurs and poets returning their well-deserved national honours to protest the hate-murders of three fellow writers, one was struck by the fact that there was just one professional journalist in that distinguished (...) -
Bhupesh: Some Reminiscences
4 November 2015, by Nikhil ChakravarttyFrom N.C.’s Writings
CPI leader Bhupesh Gupta’s 101st birth anniversary fell on October 20 this year. While remembering him we reproduce the following piece that N.C. wrote after his death in Moscow on August 6, 1981. it was published in (...) -
After Indira Gandhi
4 November 2015, by Nikhil ChakravarttyIndira Gandhi’s 31st death anniversary falls on October 31 this year. On this occasion we are reproducing the following ‘Editor’s Notebook’ that N.C. wrote after her death.
Twenty years after her great father’s passing away, Indira Gandhi fell, (...) -
India-China: Reflections on 1962 / In the Name of Ram / Bijbehara: A Challenge to Nation’s Conscience
4 November 2015, by Nikhil ChakravarttyThe following article appeared in Mainstream to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the Chinese aggression (that began on October 20, 1962).
India-China: Reflections on 1962
This week, thirty years ago, the Chinese Army had mounted a full-scale (...)
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