I am past the half-way mark between sixty years and seventy, but I did not until recently hear the expression “anti-national”, which is now flying around like a swarm of maddened bees. Just what might it mean?
In accepted usage a “national” is a (...)
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A Note on “Anti-National”
12 March 2016, by Mukul Dube -
Was Afzal Guru a martyr or a militant?: JNU Students were Debating a Question that Law Can’t
12 March 2016, by Nandita HaksarA Delhi High Court Bench headed by Justice Pratibha Rani gave bail to Kanhaiya Kumar, the President of the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union, on March 2 quoting a Bollywood song. The bail order began with a stanza from a song from the (...) -
Spare the Students
12 March 2016, by Kuldip NayarShould students take part in politics was the question even before independence. This same debate raged when I was studying law at Lahore. We would skip classrooms on the call of Mahatma Gandhi or some other national leaders to show solidarity (...) -
Modi, RSS Get Unexpected Empathy
12 March 2016, by M K BhadrakumarThe turmoil in the Jawaharal Nehru University (JNU) and the caste war in Haryana are bound to attract a lot of attention abroad. When the government projects India as the ‘fastest-growing big economy’ of the world, it whets outsiders’ appetite in (...) -
Political Legacy of Mufti Mohammad Sayeed
12 March 2016by Aijaz Ashraf Wani and Mehragud Din Bhat
Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, the founder of the Jammu and Kashmir People’s Democratic Party (PDP), passed away on January 7, 2016 at the age of 79. He was the 12th Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir. Born on (...) -
Tribute: Dr N.A. Karim
12 March 2016by K.M. Ajir Kutty
Dr N.A. Karim, a prominent public intellectual of Kerala, breathed his last in the afternoon of February 4, 2016 at Manjari, his residence at Peroorkkada in Thiruvananthapuram. He had been ailing for some time and had just had (...) -
Brexit: Will it be a Good Proposition for the UK and EU?
12 March 2016by Purusottam Bhattacharya
Britain faces a crucial test for its role in European and world affairs for a generation to come when the UK votes on an in-out referendum on June 23 to determine whether it will continue to be a member of the European (...) -
Amartya Sen: National Security is one Component of Human Security
12 March 2016Economist and Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen’s latest book, The Country of First Boys, is a collection of essays on an array of topics, ranging from development, justice, and education to calendars, Rabindranath Tagore, and the importance of play. (...) -
On Amartya Sen’s Interview
12 March 2016by Paresh Chattopadhyay
We read with considerable interest Sen’s interview with the Hindu (The Hindu, December 24, 2015: Amartya Sen, ’National Security is one component of human security’). Here again this eminent humanist, unlike many in the (...) -
Truth Will Prevail
9 March 2016, by SCEDITORIAL
The release of Kanhaiya Kumar, the President of the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union, on March 3 after three weeks of detention in police custody and prison and his electrifying speech the same evening before a packed (...)
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