In 2016 this writer published a collection of commentaries on the ongoing state of the Republic titled, recklessly it may seem, Idea of India Hard to Beat: Republic Resilient.
The central speculation in that volume was that whereas it was (...)
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2017
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Independence Day: May the Good Indian Show Us the Way
20 August 2017, by Badri Raina -
India At Seventy: Are All Citizens Equal?
20 August 2017by Mridula Mukherjee
The celebrations of the seventieth anniversary of Independence Day and the seventyfifth anniversary of the ‘Quit India’ Movement, within the same week, have brought with them a welcome focus and debate in the public domain on (...) -
Mockery of Independence? What a Country!
20 August 2017, by A K BiswasNationalist ruler’s loyal forefathers were ‘unsolicited’ British collaborators honoured with Royal Salute
I was overwhelmed on reading in The Calcutta Gazette, 1858 that the East India Company bestowed an extraordinary distinction upon an Indian (...) -
My Transition from Gandhism to Marxism
20 August 2017, by Barun Das GuptaFor a child to be born into a staunch Gandhian family and to have grown into boyhood in the strict disciplinary ambience of an ashram run on Gandhian principles to have embraced Marxism and become a member of the Revolutionary Communist Party of (...) -
Without Borders
20 August 2017How do you conjure up a scenario: no states, no nations, only a vast ocean of humanity! It may sound amazing - not easy to comprehend; yet, look inward. Blind self-love fascinates, but excludes, blurring vision beyond borders; a closed (...) -
The ‘Legitimate’ Writer and his ‘Illegitimate’(?) Writings
20 August 2017by Sudipto Mukhopadhyay
The ongoing protest on Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar’s writings and the debates over their legitimacy (to the claim of an accolade from the Sahitya Academy) and authenticity (in representing the Santhali community) lead us to (...) -
Graphic Account of Afghan Turmoil in the 1980s and Questions posed Thereafter
20 August 2017, by Mahendra VedBOOK REVIEW
Whispers of War: An Afghan Freedom Fighter’s Account of the Soviet Invasion by Masood Khalili; Sage Publications, New Delhi; 2017; 275 pages; Price: Rs 495 (paperback).
Afghanistan’s Ambassador Masood Khalili is a born story-teller. (...) -
Tribute: N.V.K. Murthy
20 August 2017TRIBUTE
N.V.K. Murthy was born on August 16, 1925 in Hyderabad. He received a baccalaureate degree in English literature from Maharaja’s College in Mysore. In August 1942, while a still a student at Maharaja’s College, he joined the ‘Quit India’ (...) -
Pledge-taking on ‘Quit India’ Anniversary
12 August 2017, by SCEDITORIAL
Today, August 9, 2017, happens to be the seventyfifth anniversary of the ‘Quit India’ movement also known as the August Revolution that, alongwith the Azad Hind Fauj’s daring exploits in South-East Asia right up to the borders of (...) -
An Open Letter from Veterans of the Armed Forces
12 August 2017To the Prime Minister of India, Chief Ministers of the States, and Lieutenant-Governors of the Union Territories,
We are a group of Veterans of the Indian Armed Forces who have spent our careers working for the security of our country. (...)
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