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Russia: Boris Nemtsov’s Murder and Demonisation of Putin
9 March 2015, by Arun MohantyBoris Nemtsov, one of Russia’s most flam-boyant and exotic liberal Opposition leaders and Russia’s first President Boris Yeltsin’s one-time favourite and heir-apparent, was shot dead on February 28 night at a stone’s throw from Moscow’s iconic (...) -
Fukuyama’s Journey since the Fall of the Berlin Wall
9 March 2015BOOK REVIEW
by Nirupam Hazra
Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalisation of Democracy by Francis Fukuyama; Publisher: Profile Books, New Delhi; 2014; price: Rs 699; pages: 658
It is difficult to put (...) -
A Letter to Friends on a Matter of Concern
9 March 2015, by Chaman LalDear Friends,
Perhaps I should not address you like this, yet feeling concerned about media reports, which I wish to be proved false, about internal bickerings in the AAP, I am doing so.
The Indian society is going through very hard times, (...) -
Women’s Day
9 March 2015, by Badri RainaWould it not be nice if, in fact,
You did not set aside that one
Charitable day to propitiate us,
But simply, through the year,
Internalised our human status.
Would it not be nice if you
Understood how, lacking us,
Your brood would have no (...) -
On Modi’s Defeat in Delhi Election
9 March 2015COMMUNICATION
PM Narendra Modi’s new avatar as a high-handed, know-all self-promoting man with a tinge of arrogance was responsible for the fast deterioration of his so-called charm among electors. After all, votes like alms are is to be sought (...) -
Actions Accentuate Alienation
1 March 2015, by SCEDITORIAL
The Budget session of Parliament has begun with the Opposition mounting a fierce attack on the Treasury Benches on the new Land Acquisition Bill the BJP-led NDA Government has introduced in the Lok Sabha on the lines of the Ordinance (...) -
8th Falgun
1 March 2015a noted poem by the National Poet of today’s Bangladesh, Begum Sufia Kamal
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Will Mr Narendra Modi be Able to Check the Sangh Loonies? Perhaps Not
1 March 2015, by John DayalIn retrospect, the Prime Minister of India, Mr Narendra Modi, would have done better, achieved a thousand times more, and helped India’s cultural integrity, unity and amity—and therefore its prosperity—by the simple visual action of putting on a (...) -
Bihar: Checkmating the Upsurge of Neo-dalit Politics
1 March 2015by Arun Srivastava
The Manjhi-Nitish break-up in Bihar has indeed come as a surprise as this would dent the “clean” image of Nitish Kumar, the Chanakya of Bihar, and also decimate the tenets of his renunciation of power eight months back. No doubt (...) -
India - Sri Lanka Ties: Sirisena Visit - An Appraisal
1 March 2015, by Apratim MukarjiLike most of his predecessors, Sri Lanka’s new President Maithripala Sirisena chose to make his first official visit abroad to India in mid-February, thereby reinforcing the special relationship between the two South Asian neighbours.
Though the (...)
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