by Suparna Sanyal Mukherjee
The Indian Forest Act and Democratic India are two sides of the same coin; both concern the Indians, special mention to the aboriginals, the tribes, whose traditional system of livelihood were affected by the (...)
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Indian Forest Act and Democracy: Effect on the Traditional Tribal System
25 April 2016 -
The Brussels Ultimatum
25 April 2016by Sanjal Shastri
The attacks in Brussels and in Paris earlier have jolted Europe. There has been another ultimatum from the IS warning that there would be more such attacks in other cities of Europe as well, for example, Rome and London. Europe (...) -
West Bengal : A Case of Costly Arrogance
25 April 2016, by Nikhil ChakravarttyFROM N.C.’S WRITINGS
As the State Assembly elections in West Bengal are in full swing, the arrogance of the ruling Trinamul Congress has come out in the open in different forms. We are thus reproducing the following write-up of N.C. higlighting (...) -
Charusita Chakravarty: A Scientist and Multifaceted Scholar
25 April 2016, by S.K. PandeTRIBUTE
On March 29, 2016, Professor Charusita Chakravarty, one of the leading women scientists of India, was no more. She was not even 52 when she died in Delhi. Her life was snatched after her brave fight against cancer for around four years, (...) -
Svetlana Alexievich: A Warrior for Peace
25 April 2016, by Sagari ChhabraI must confess that I first heard of Svetlana Alexievich when she won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2015. A woman journalist winning a Nobel Prize is in itself newsworthy, but who is this woman and what kind of books does she write?—I (...) -
Our Elections often field the Worst of Leaders—Kerala does it again for Chandy’s People
25 April 2016, by T J S GeorgeIMPRESSIONS
Trust Kerala to make the impossible possible. It is a holy tenet of the Congress Party’s culture that the High Command be implicitly obeyed; no one ever dreams of going against its wishes. Kerala’s Chief Minister Oommen Chandy has not (...) -
Leveraging on Societal Insecurities and Politics of Crises in India
25 April 2016by Santosh K. Patra and Sumana Khan
The definition of “Democracy” in India today is obfuscating. The kind of political scenario that India has been housing, especially since the last two-three decades, is forcing the public to make myriads of (...) -
CJI bats for the Downtrodden: A ray of hope beyond the dark tunnel
25 April 2016by M.M. Khajooria
The inaugural address of Justice T.S. Thakur to the two-day legal seminar in Jammu the other day came as a whiff of fresh air in the suffocating, stifling and polluted environment that has engulfed the country. That the concern (...) -
Sheikh Peer of the Twentythird
25 April 2016, by Badri Raina(On the occasion of William Shakespeare’s birth and death on April 23)
You died the day you were born. And immortalised The day you died. Four hundred years after We come to you for Knowledge of our world Which you saw coming As your sentience (...) -
Thoughts on World Earth Day
25 April 2016, by Bharat DograCOMMUNICATION
The predominant thought that comes to mind as the World Earth Day (April 22) approaches is regarding the alarming extent to which some of the most pressing problems which can damage seriously the life-creating conditions on earth (...)
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