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Unfortunate Woman
13 December 2015, by Sangeeta Mall -
Revisiting the World of Keya
13 December 2015, by Arup Kumar SenKeya Chakraborty (1942-1977) was a legendary actress on the Bengali stage in the late 1960s and 1970s. She died a mysterious death while shooting for a Bengali film, Jeevan Jey Rakam (Life as it is). She jumped into the Ganges from the boat in a (...) -
Human Rights: Basic Issues
13 December 2015, by Nikhil ChakravarttyFrom N.C.’s Writings
Human Rights Day is observed on December 10 every year commemorating the day, in 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. To mark the occasion we are reproducing the (...) -
NREGA in Punjab — A Cause for Concern
13 December 2015by S.C. Sharma
The following is a study based on the results of a field survey undertaken by the author for the Research Project “Impact of NREG Scheme on Rural Economy of Punjab: A Case Study of Three Districts“. The project was funded by the (...) -
Showcasing Challenges before the Kerala Economy in Post-Reform Period
13 December 2015BOOK REVIEW
by Renji George Amballoor
Kerala Economy and its Emerging Issues by V. Mathew Kurien and Raju John; Sahitya Pravarthaka Co-operative Society Limited, Kottayam; 2014; pp. 400; Rs 350.
Kerala Economy and its Emerging Issues is a (...) -
Why So Tolerant?
13 December 2015by Ayaz Ahmad
The heated debate on so-called intolerance and Award Wapsi keeps throwing up an obvious question, why now? What has happened after the ascent of the BJP/RSS to power at the Centre and in some States since 2014 to cause such (...) -
Erdogan’s Game and Turkey’s Western Allies
13 December 2015by Hasan Hamidullah
By now it is getting increasingly clear by the day that the Turkish Government of President Recip Tayyap Erodogan is doing everything possible to help the Islamic State in every way thereby exposing the double-standards of a (...) -
An Existential Threat to Secular India
6 December 2015political notebook
The Babri Masjid at Ayodhya was demolished on December 6, 1992. The forces that demolished the historic mosque have become far stronger today and are threatening to demolish the entire edifice of India’s secular and democratic (...) -
Climate Change in India: Challenges and Solutions
6 December 2015by Sharat Poornima
“The Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs but not every man’s greed.”
—Mahatma Gandhi
The idea of environmental conservation was built into India’s traditional culture. The ancient dictum in India “tyakten (...) -
A Secularist Responds to Minister Rajnath Singh ....
6 December 2015by Ram Puniyani
The celebration of the Constitution Day (November 26, 2015) marked the revival of the debate, on, rather questioning of the concept of, secularism yet again. Rajnath Singh, the Union Home Minister, repeated the arguments which (...)
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