by M.C. Pindwal
The recent statement of the former Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, to the Centreal Bureau of Investigation, the premier investigation agency of the Central Government, that he had many other issues to worry about when he was (...)
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Unbecoming of a leader as Prime Minister
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Centenary of First Independent Government of India Ignored
26 December 2015The Union Government (as well as the Opposition in Parliament) totally forgot the historic significance of December 1 this year: the centenary of the first Independent Government of India—Hukumat-e-Azad Hind—set up in Kabul.
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Bani Deshpande Is No More
26 December 2015Veteran Communist leader Vidyadhar Laxman Deshpande alias Bani Deshpande, 88, passed away in Mumbai after a brief illness on December 4, 2015. He is survived by his wife, Roza Deshpande, a former MP from Mumbai, a son and a daughter.
Suffering (...) -
Public Intervention Despite Heavy Odds
13 December 2015, by SCEDITORIAL
The most significant of the political developments of the last few days was captured by The Indian Express headline of December 7: “India, Pakistan break the ice off camera in Bangkok”—a reference to the meetings between India’s National (...) -
Is the Ice Melting?
13 December 2015, by Kuldip NayarSuddenly there was summer. A chance 160-second meeting between Prime Ministers Narendra Modi and Nawaz Sharif has melted the ice, which seemed frozen beyond change. The about-turn indicates that the differences have been exaggerated. The ego, (...) -
Turkey and Red Line in India-Russia Friendship
13 December 2015, by M K BhadrakumarHaving lived and worked as a diplomat in the ‘Soviet space’ and in Turkey for over a decade of the best years of my life, the current tensions playing out between these two historical rivals present an engrossing case-study where terrorism mixes (...) -
Saudi-US policies led to IS. Ignore this fact and face the ‘Islamisation of Europe’ scare
13 December 2015, by T J S GeorgeIMPRESSIONS
Western powers have pooled their formi-dable military resources to punish ISIS for its terrorism. But they may not succeed because they are themselves the Frankensteins who produced the monster through the agency of Saudi Arabia. The (...) -
My Take on Award Wapsi
13 December 2015by Mathew Varghese
Award wapsi has suddenly become fashionable among the writers and artists. The number is growing steadily. There is so much intolerance how can we be silent?—is the rhetoric. Don’t you call it a rhetoric! It is a rational and (...) -
Resurgence of the Communist Revolutionary Force in Bihar
13 December 2015by Arun Srivastava
In globalised India, the Left appears to be in a state of inertia; losing initiative and ideological mooring. With the state abandoning its responsibility towards the people, its inclusive growth and empowerment, the Left (...) -
Bihar Election Results: Time to Introspect!
13 December 2015by Sudhanshu Tripathi
The stunning victory of the “Mahagathbandhan” in Bihar has left the main Opposition, the Bharatiya Janata Party-led NDA, shell-shocked, which will have to review its strategy that failed to convince the electorate. Indeed, it (...)