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I heaved a sigh of relief when the Opposition came up with the name of Gopalkrishna Gandhi as their vice-presidential candidate. As I’d mentioned in one of my earlier columns, this grandson of Mahatma Gandhi has been a former civil (...)
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Gopalkrishna Gandhi, the Man and his Personality
29 July 2017, by Humra Quraishi -
An individualist President
29 July 2017, by Kuldip NayarIt is not difficult to assess the regime of Pranab Mukherjee who retires from the office of President after completing his tenure of five years. He was a wrong choice and should not have adorned the gaddi at the first instance.
Pranab Mukherjee (...) -
Hindu nationalism risks pushing India into war with China
29 July 2017by Yu Ning
The following article appeared in China’s official publication Global Times on July 19, 2017. It brings out the Chinese stand on the Sino-Indian confrontation at Doklam.
Since Indian troops illegally crossed into the Doklam area, (...) -
Doklam Standoff: Beyond Border Dispute
29 July 2017by Ramakrushna Pradhan
The recent border standoff between arch rival China and India has been further escalated with Beijing holding live fire drills in the Tibet-Qinghai plateau at a height of 5000 feet. The telecast of the drill by the Chinese (...) -
Strong Action to Stop Mob Lynchings Should Get Top Priority
29 July 2017, by Bharat DograAt the time of writing this the Union Government appears to be waking up rather belatedly towards its responsibility for checking mob lynchings and related violence which, instead of being checked, have been worsening rapidly in recent months. (...) -
Lynching to Power
29 July 2017by Irfan Engineer
Mashal Khan, a 23-year-old journalism student, was seized from his dorm room by a mob that stripped and beat him, then shot him dead on April 13, 2017 in Mardan in North West Pakistan. Khan was accused of offending Islam. (...) -
Manipulating Narratives
29 July 2017by Garima Mani Tripathi
Karl Marx once said that the ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas. This is apparently relevant in recent times, when many minority community people have been lynched on petty issues like (...) -
Rumour to Riots in Bengal: Who do we blame and what do we do?
29 July 2017by Rumela Sen and Niloy Sengupta
In the first week of July, an inflammatory Facebook post by a teenage Hindu boy set off several days of communal violence in West Bengal’s Baduria-Basirhat region. Several senior BJP leaders blamed the violence (...) -
Anatomy of Basirhat (West Bengal) Violence
29 July 2017by Ram Puniyani
In an insane act of violence two people lost their lives in Basirhat (West Bengal, 4.7.2017). For quite sometime the social media is abuzz that West Bangal is turning Islamist, Hindus are under great threat, their condition is (...) -
Oppressed to Oppressor
29 July 2017by Samit Kar
A major chunk of the Muslim population in India originated courtesy the inhuman oppression of Hinduism in the name of casteism and untouchability. Hinduism is the world’s most Catholic religion and several studies did reveal that (...)
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