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Many thanks to Mainstream and to Prof Arun Kumar for increasing our understanding of demonetisation-related issues with such clarity. Prof Arun Kumar is, on the one hand, an eminent economist and also a top expert on black money. (...)
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Eminent Economists’ Views help in Understanding Demonetisation
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Genocide of Rohingyas in Myanmar: the Hindutva Imprints
23 September 2017, by Shamsul IslamCurrently, one of the worst post-World War II genocides is underway in India’s neighbour-hood. In the Rakhine province of Myanmar (Burma), cleansing of people belonging to the Rohingya tribe (mostly Muslims and a few Hindus and Buddhists) has (...) -
Is India Run by Dynasty?
23 September 2017, by Kuldip NayarCongress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi is wrong when he says that all of India runs on dynasties. Ruling means wielding power at the Centre. Only Jawaharlal Nehru’s family has had the opportunity to do so. Nehru ruled for 17 years, his daughter (...) -
Injuring Mother Narmada
23 September 2017, by Devaki JainThe rhetoric says that the dream of dear Mother Narmada, of flowing from Madhya Pradesh into Gujarat and irrigating lakhs of hectares, has now been fulfilled with the raising of the Sardar Sarovar Dam to 136 metres and its opening. What a (...) -
The Nero Syndrome
23 September 2017, by Sudhir VombatkerePrime Minister Modi chose to celebrate his birthday, September 17th, by inaugurating the Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP). There were several letters written to him, informing him in case he did not know, or reminding him in case he did know and had (...) -
Looking for a model Military Industrial Complex (MIC)
23 September 2017by Bhartendu Kumar Singh
Military power, along with economic power, constitute the great power edifice in contem-porary international relations. Yet, India’s attempts to consolidate its great power status is stymied by a sick and sterile (...) -
The ‘Madam’ as Defence Minister
23 September 2017WOMEN’S WORLD
by Garima Mani Tripathi
“Men define women not as ‘herself’ but relative to them,” wrote Simone De Beauvoir in The Second Sex (1949). While Ms Nirmala Sitharaman’s appointment as the first (full-time) woman Defence Minister is a (...) -
Draft of a Poem
23 September 2017Under the steadfast vigil
of the plestar,
all along the milky way,
I hear the steady tread of revolution
across the firmanent.
Millions are on their march.
Does it not raise
an answering echo in your heart?
Here, in the citadel of
inertia and (...) -
Disturbing Scenario Unfolds
19 September 2017, by SCEDITORIAL
The economic situation is worsening by the day. This is the naked truth which is staring us in the face. Lately the fuel prices have been increased phenomenally—seven per cent increase in the last few months. Prices of vegetables have (...) -
The Short Shelf-life of Post-Truth
19 September 2017, by Badri RainaIt is extremely rare to hear murmurs of discontent from within the Bharatiya Janata Party. Which of course does not mean that discontent does not ever exist.
A brave BJP Member of Parliament has, if you like, broken the hard ice and let out the (...)
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