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Can Interlocutor Help Solve Kashmir?
6 November 2017, by Kuldip NayarThe Government of India has appointed Dineshwar Sharma, the former Intelligence Bureau chief, as an interlocutor to find a solution to Kashmir’s problems. This is not the first time that such an exercise is being conducted. New Delhi has had (...) -
Decoding Dera: A Perspective on its Historicity and Guru Phenomena
6 November 2017by Geetanjali Atri
With the imprisonment of Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh in the 15-year-old rape cases in the last week of August this year and the violence that followed, the sacred imagination of the masses has been marred by turmoil. The event (...) -
Red Star Glows Brighter
6 November 2017, by Nikhil ChakravarttyFrom N.C.’s Writings
November 7 this year marks the centenary of the October Revolution that heralded a new dawn in the world. Today a hundred years later the Soviet Union, the product of that Revolution, has ceased to exist. Yet the (...) -
Russian Revolution and India
6 November 2017by Shaukat Usmani
The approaching fiftieth anniversary of the October Revolution brings to mind many episodes connected with it. This Golden Jubilee of that great historical event of 1917 takes us back to the blessings of our own national (...) -
Thoughts on the Occasion of October Revolution’s Centenary
6 November 2017, by Arun MohantyHuman society has witnessed so many revolutions but no revolution has influenced human history so much as has the Great October Revolution of 1917. No other revolution has triggered so profound socio-economic and geopolitical transformation in (...) -
Revolution Belied
6 November 2017, by Barun Das GuptaWhat exactly was unique about the October Revolution of 1917 in Russia? What was it that made this revolution fundamentally different from all other previous revolutions? Why was it that it was something new, something unheard of, something (...) -
October Revolution and Women
6 November 2017, by Gargi Chakravartty‘Ten days that shook the world’—the tremor of the October Revolution was felt throughout the world with its cascading effects on society, polity and economy at large, its far-reaching impact on the national liberation struggles of Asia and Africa, (...) -
On N.C.’s 104th birth centenary: I. A. Rehman and Mubashir Hasan
6 November 2017On November 3 this year fell Nikhil Chakravartty’s 104th birth anniversary. On this occasion we are reproducing two eminent Pakistani public figures’ article and message sent on N.C.’s birth centenary four years ago when a two-day conference on (...) -
My Earliest Recollections / Allround Decadence and Ray of Hope / Iraq Crisis and Gujral Government
6 November 2017, by Nikhil ChakravarttyFrom N.C.’s Writings
My Earliest Recollections
After N.C.’s demise on June 27, 1998 three pieces were recovered from his notes as evidence that he had started writing his autobiography. Since November 3 this year happens to be his 104th birth (...) -
Need of the Hour
30 October 2017EDITORIAL
At long last the dates for the Gujarat Assembly polls have been announced.
Yesterday Chief Election Commissioner A.K. Joti disclosed to the media that voting for the crucial electoral contest in the State will take place or December 9 (...)
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