by Pradeep Nair and Sandeep Sharma
In the wake of the social media, the political-public sphere is broadening. The scope of feedback from the public directly to their representatives has set a new phase in public opinion and policy formations. (...)
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Reverse Agenda-setting: Politics in the Time of Facebook
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Need for Dange-line in Contemporary Politics
5 August 2017by Pratip Chattopadhyay
Contemporary Indian politics is under the siege of reactionary Rightist political forces exemplified by the rising electoral mandate for the BJP since 2014. At the same time efforts are there to conglomerate all (...) -
More on EPW
5 August 2017COMMUNICATION
The chain reaction to the questionable exit of Paranjoy Guha Thakurta from EPW continues. My article, “EPW confronting Crisis of Identity” (Mainstream, July 29, 2017), catches a segment of it.
On July 25, two days before the (...) -
An Appeal from Narmada for Justice
5 August 2017, by Bharat DograOnce again the situation in the villages around the Narmada river has become so serious as to demand the attention of all people who are committed to justice. In fact this time the situation is more serious than ever before as with the rise in (...) -
Pushpa Mittra Bhargava (1928-2017
5 August 2017TRIBUTE
The following is a tribute to Prof P.M. Bhargava, the distinguished molecular biologist and indefatigable champion of promoting scientific temper and self-reliance, from the Council for Social Development. He passed away on August 1 in (...) -
Kohinoor
5 August 2017, by Badri RainaAmong India’s fine politicians there
Is but one who never loses his shine.
Like the Kohinoor, he passes from
Hand to hand, crown to crown, enemy
To enemy, friend to friend, glowing
For all with equal light just so long
As they keep him at the (...) -
Rank Opportunism Scales New Heights
29 July 2017, by SCEDITORIAL
Whatever has happened since last evening in Patna—that is, after the Bihar CM tendered his resignation as the head of the JD(U)-RJD-Congress mahagathbandhan government there following a meeting of the JD(U) MLAs—has stunned the secular (...) -
Amarnath and After: Misplaced Euphoria
29 July 2017, by Badri RainaShri Raj Nath Singh, our hard-working Minister for Home Affairs, is a good secular man, one who has a felt recognition and understanding of the unquantifiably rich and diverse Muslim contribution to the making of India’s economic and cultural (...) -
Aruna Asaf Ali: A Tribute
29 July 2017, by Nikhil ChakravarttyFROM N.C.’S WRITINGS
July 16 this year marked legendary freedom fighter Aruna Asaf Ali’s 108th birth anniversary. She passed away twentyone years ago on July 29, 1996. As a tribute to her abiding memory we reproduce here N.C.’s moving piece and a (...) -
Raisina Hill’s New Tenant / President’s Moral Standing
29 July 2017, by Nikhil ChakravarttyRaisina Hill’s New Tenant
Since President Pranab Mukherjee is laying down office this week, we carry here two pieces by Nikhil Chakravartty, written twenty years ago in July and November 1997, that bring out the importance of one of Mukherjee’s (...)
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