From N.C.’s Writings
This article, which brings into focus the Third World stalwarts who attended the Seventh NAM Summit in New Delhi in March 1983, is being reproduced after almost 34 years to recall the rich tributes paid by N.C. to the (...)
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Men and Mountains / Not Sorrow but Atonement
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Remembering Professor M.G.K. Menon
5 December 2016Professor M.G.K. Menon, 88, who passed away in the Capital on November 22, 2016, has been described by his grand-nephew Himadri Gupta, a senior lecturer of bio-materials, School of Engineering Materials Science, Queen Mary University of London, (...) -
Surgical Intolerance in a Democracy
5 December 2016by Saumitra Mohan
A slew of incidents in recent times have again adumbrated an increasing intolerance in the country, the intolerance of opposition to established wisdom, intolerance of contrarian views or intolerance of standing against the (...) -
New Dawn in Pakistan
5 December 2016, by Kuldip NayarThe Dawn is a fairly respected newspaper in the subcontinent. It was founded by Qaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah at Daryaganj in New Delhi to propagate his cause of Pakistan. When Pakistan was founded The Dawn started appearing from Karachi. (...) -
Is Delhi Ready to Take Tough Decisions?
5 December 2016by Anshuman Gupta
Delhi is increasingly becoming a difficult place to live in with increasing levels of pollution there. It has been manifested with the recent blanket of thick haze at the onset of winter. This is in spite of the tough measures (...) -
Burma for New Talks
5 December 2016, by Harish ChandolaThe Myanmar (Burmese) Army has stopped Aung San Suu Kyi from becoming the President of the country in spite of her party, the National League for Democracy, winning the country’s general elections in November last by a landslide. The Army (...) -
Sixtyseventh Anniversary of Democratic-secular Constitution
5 December 2016, by Shamsul IslamThere is no doubt that despite many infirmities the Indian Constitution, as framed by the Constituent Assembly (CA) of India on November 26, 1949, was a fine document of liberal democracy. Its emphasis on an all-inclusive polity assuring social, (...) -
Remembering Dileep Padgaonkar
5 December 2016Noted journalist Dileep Padgaonkar, 72, passed away in Pune on November 25, 2016.
In a message President Pranab Mukherjee wrote: “Shri Padgaonkar was a scholar, columnist and editor who maintained the highest standards of journalism throughout (...) -
Demonetisation and the ‘Common Man’
5 December 2016by Arup Kumar Sen
The demonetisation of 500 and 1000 rupee currency notes by the Modi Government is an unique event in the history of monetary policy in post-colonial India. It should be mentioned in this connection that at the time of (...) -
2017 UP Assembly Elections: Challenges and Stakes
5 December 2016by Sanjay Mishra
The election to the Assembly of Uttar Pradesh, slated for the first half of next year, promises to be a high-pitched, high-stake electoral battle. It is an important election for all the stakeholders in the fray— principally the (...)
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