Whenever a State language wants to spread itself to the national sphere, it naturally meets with some resistance. The limits of both are delineated. One is confined to the State while the other has the entire country for its spread.
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Hindi Spread requires Patience
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The Epidemic of Lynching: It’s a crying shame on humanity
5 August 2017by M.A. Sofi
Witness the pall of gloom that has enveloped the vale of Kashmir over a long period of time and which of late has assumed staggering proportions as a result of unprecedented violence having been unleashed there following innumerable (...) -
Nazism and Corporate Power
5 August 2017by Arup Kumar Sen
Very recently, I chanced upon a book, IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance between Nazi Germany and America’s Most Powerful Corporation, written by Edwin Black (Crown Books, New York, 2001). The book “tells the story of (...) -
On Continuing Caste Violence in Saharanpur, UP - People’s Alliance for Democracy and Secularism’s Public Statement
5 August 2017DOCUMENT
The following is a statement issued by the Convener of the People’s Alliance for Democracy and Secularism (PADS), Battini Rao.
Fiftyfive Dalit houses were burnt down during the afternoon of May 5 in Shabbirpur village of Saharanpur in (...) -
Global Times Lashes out at India: Doval visit won’t sway China over border standoff
5 August 2017The following is a recent editorial that appeared in China’s official organ, Global Times (July 25, 2017), bringing out its no-holds-barred attack on India over the Doklam standoff.
India’s National Security Adviser Ajit Doval is to visit China (...) -
Anguish, not Anger / Riding the Tiger
5 August 2017, by Nikhil ChakravarttyFrom N.C.’s Writings
Anguish, not Anger
The countdown for a national crisis of fearsome dimension has begun. The build-up of a nationwide communal conflict could be discerned, as one finds that the feverish activity for the building of the Ram (...) -
Indo-Israel Strategic Relations within the framework of Hindutva Philosophy
5 August 2017by Arun Srivastava
Two remarks by the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, are yet to make any significant sense: First, the marriage between Israel and India was made in heaven. Benjamin did not elaborate the nature of the marriage, (...) -
India-Israel Relations
5 August 2017, by Eduardo FaleiroPrime Minister Narendra Modi visited Israel from July 4 to 6. Modi is the first ever Indian Prime Minister to visit Israel. Indo-Israeli relations have witnessed a sharp upswing since the present government came to power and there has been an (...) -
Reinventing Eqbal Ahmad’s Thoughts on Middle East
5 August 2017by Ahmad Zaboor
Introduction
Following the death of Eqbal Ahmad in 1999, Palestine lost a sincere friend. His insightful analysis, revolutionary writings, ideas “woke up the Americans’ conscience” as the New York Times put it. But his ideas still (...) -
Challenges before Right to Information
5 August 2017BOOK REVIEW
by JAYANTA DEBNATH
Right to Information: Empowerment and Good Governance by Rajeev Kumar Singh; New Delhi: Mewar University Press; 2016; pp. xx + 284; Rs 550.
We are living in a post-industrialist society. Daniel Bell argued that (...)
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