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Importance of being Rahul Gandhi
2 May 2015, by Kuldip NayarRahul Gandhi is in the news for one reason or the other. Yesterday, the debate was on his 57-day leave of absence from the country. In fact, Rahul himself should have told about his passion for chanting if that is what he was doing in Myanmar. (...) -
Kashmir: Masarat Alam, My Neighbour
2 May 2015by Mohan K. Tikku
The locality in Srinagar where Masarat Alam Bhat—who has been much in the news these past few weeks— comes from is where I once used to have my home: Zaindar Mohalla. It used to be a place where the two communities had lived (...) -
Dr Ambedkar’s 125th Birth Anniversary — The Real Tribute
2 May 2015, by Rajindar SacharAll newspapers on April 15, 2015 were full of all parties in the country, though normally at each other’s throat, vying with each other in their full-throated praise for Dr Ambedkar as one of the greatest Indian leaders of the country. The (...) -
Pakistan Declines to Send Troops to Yemen: Danger of US-Iran conflict
2 May 2015, by Harish ChandolaPakistan’s ties with its Saudi Arabia ally have come under great strain. The Saudis, who have been bombing the Houthi people in Yemen in the south for over a month, have failed to subdue or make peace with them. In spite of its enormous defence (...) -
Report From Bundelkhand: Agro-Ecological Crisis Aggravated by Untimely Excess Rain and Hailstorms
2 May 2015, by Bharat DograThe already serious agro-ecological crisis in Bundelkhand region has aggravated recently by untimely excessive rain and hailstorms. With crop damage (wheat, paddy and oilseeds) in many villages ranging between 50 to almost 100 per cent, many (...) -
Launch of the ‘Swaraj Abhiyan’ by Dissident Aap Members: The New ‘Temple Entry’ Movement
2 May 2015by Aurobindo Ghose
Fourteenth of April, 2015 was Ambedkar Jayanti, when I as a social activist from Delhi attended the Swaraj Samvad (a Dialogue on Present and Future Alternative Politics) held at Gurgaon, Haryana from 10:45 am to 6:45 pm. The (...) -
Moving Towards Dark Times
2 May 2015, by Humra QuraishiMUSINGS
Murders, killings, rioting over rotis have always taken place but going by the present condition of affected hectares there are more than indications of an extremely difficult period ahead.
It is estimated that 94 lakh hectares of crop (...) -
Congress Desperately Needs: a New Social Model for Survival
2 May 2015by Arun Srivastava
This article arrived late. We are still using it as its contents retain their validity.
Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi’s month long “leave of absence” will expire on April 19. He would resume his duties by addressing a (...) -
Significant and Encouraging
25 April 2015POLITICAL NOTEBOOK
Rahul Gandhi’s return to active politics after an extended sabbatical and Sitaram Yechury’s elevation the post of the CPI-M General Secretary have been the most significant and encouraging developments of the last few days. (...) -
Encounter or Sheer Murder
25 April 2015, by Kuldip NayarYet another encounter has taken place in the State of Jammu and Kashmir. I have lost the count. What is distressing is that even the human rights activists are practically quiet. Hardly anyone of them goes to the State to find out what happened (...)
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