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State Violating Saibaba’s Fundamental Rights
25 April 2015In the eleven months that the Delhi University’s teacher-activist Dr G.N. Saibaba has been incarcerated, under the UAPA provisions, in the Nagpur Central Jail, he has been subjected to barbaric treatment by the jail authorities and Maharashtra (...) -
Beef, Buffalo and Brahmanism: The Politics of Food
25 April 2015by Navneet Sharma, Pradeep Nair and Harikrishnan B.
Cow is a national animal. Cow is our mother. Cow is a useful domestic animal. Cow has four legs, two eyes, one mouth and one tail. Cow gives us milk.... cow has a calf that grows into Sanjay (...) -
Putting AAP’s Historic Victory in Perspective
25 April 2015by Sanjay Mishra
This article, which reached us in March, could not be used earlier due to unavoidable reasons. Its contents, however, are still valid even though a bitter struggle has lately broken out within the AAP. It is thus being published (...) -
India: An Emerging Regional Hegemon
25 April 2015by Shatakshi Bhargava
South Asia, as a region, has always been a victim of political instability and economic disequilibrium. It is not hidden that political and economic affairs are interlinked amongst states. Nonetheless, the states have (...) -
National Task and Left Politics
17 April 2015, by SCEDITORIAL
While PM Narendra Modi is abroad visiting France, Germany and Canada trying to woo foreign investors and engaging in deals like the one on purchase of 36 Rafale fighter aircraft he has struck in France (thereby detracting from his “Make (...) -
Children of Democracy
17 April 2015, by Kuldip NayarReligious sensitivity has deepened since the advent of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s regime. Even though he has underlined the principle of sarva dharma samabhava, parochialism has shown its ugly face in one field or the other. The judiciary is (...) -
Courts and Social Justice Litigation
17 April 2015, by Rajindar SacharPrime Minister Modi’s gratuitous diatribe of the judiciary being influenced by five-star social activists was a cheap joke which brought down the prestige of the biggest political office of the country. And to make this observation at the Chief (...) -
Five-Star Activism, too, is Democracy. Deny it, and we face New Totalitarianism
17 April 2015, by T J S GeorgeIMPRESSIONS
Forget the beef ban and the Good Friday controversy in the Supreme Court. More important is the fact that we seem to have reached a stage where we cannot debate issues like water and air pollution, forests and wild life, the death of (...) -
Modi’s “Flyaway” French Deal
17 April 2015, by M K BhadrakumarIf Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi were alive, we could have asked him how the French get around authoritarian rulers and tin-pot dictators from the developing countries who carry fat cheque books in their pockets while travelling abroad. As the dreamy (...) -
On Rafale’s Induction into the IAF
17 April 2015by Hamid Habibullah
Egypt’s procurement of the muilti-role combat aircraft Rafale from the Dassault Aviation of France had been actually financed by Saudi Arabia and the UAE, which have been known for long to be Egypt’s sponsors in West Asia. (...)
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