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Remembering Mazhar Ali Khan On His Birth Centenary
10 June 2017Mazhhar Ali Khan Ali Khan, a legendary journalist who never flinched from uncompromising journalism, upholding the sanctity of the freedom of press, was born on June 6, 1917. He married Tahira Hyat Khan, daughter of Sir Sikandar Hyat Khan, Prime (...) -
Glorious Dust (Editorial, Pakistan Times, January 31, 1948)
10 June 2017Mahatma Gandhi is dead. The world has been deprived of the sight and sound of his frail body and aged voice—the body and voice that had in the last few months almost lost, for a large section of mankind, their personal and emphemeral character (...) -
On Fiftieth Anniversary of the Naxalbari Uprising: Memory of a Meeting with Charu Mazumdar
10 June 2017, by Barun Das GuptaAs the fiftieth anniversary of the Naxalite movement is being observed, old memories come crowding in my mind. One unforgettable memory is that of meeting Charu Mazumdar, the leader of the Naxalite movement, at his home at Siliguri in north (...) -
On Fiftieth Anniversary of the Naxalbari Uprising: Wages of Conceit and Eulogy
10 June 2017, by Sankar RayLooking back at the ‘spring thunder’—the ecstatic definition of the historic Naxalbari struggle by the Radio Peking in mid-1967—after 50 years from many angles is a reflex of historical consciousness. There’s no denying that the battle had for the (...) -
On Fiftieth Anniversary of the Naxalbari Uprising: Looking Back
10 June 2017, by SCThe following piece appeared in this journal on July 18, 1992 to mark twentyfive years of the Naxalbari movement. On the fiftieth anniversary of the same struggle it is being reproduced for the benefit of our readers. The author, then the (...) -
The Red Day
10 June 2017Yours is the face I saw in a procession.
All day I searched for you and then at dusk I found you sitting in my home resplendent beside the lamp.
Refusing me all day you held me close at night. In that terrible heat I found no shade (...) -
Anatomy of the ISI: Providing Insights into its Valuable Pitfalls, Failures and Success Stories
10 June 2017BOOK REVIEW
by Ahmad Zaboor
Faith, Unity, Discipline: The ISI of Pakistan by Hein G. Kiesling; Harpercollins India; 2016; pages: 307.
Writing about the intelligence agency is the most uphill task given their secretive protocols and apprehensions (...) -
Exploring the “Achievements” of Modi Rule
8 June 2017, by SCEDITORIAL
The Narendra Modi-led BJP Government at the Centre has completed three years and the party leaders are busy projecting their dispensation’s “achievements” in these three years.
The real “achievement”, of course, is in the sphere of social (...) -
RSS rolls on Nazi Racist Project of producing ‘Aryan’ Babies in India
8 June 2017by Shamsul Islam
According to press reports, one of the RSS offshoots, Garbh Vigyan Sanskar (Uterus Science Culture), following the Vedic preaching and post-World War II experiments in Germany, is conducting live trials in many parts of India (...) -
RSS-controlled Garbh Vigyan Sanskar in pursuit for “Master Race”
8 June 2017by Ram Puniyani
The RSS agenda of Hindu Rashtra draws heavily on the superiority of the Aryan race and greatness of Brahmanical values. The ideology constructed by this organisation tells us that Aryans are the superior race. The whole (...)
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