by M.A. Sofi
As should be gleaned from the (sub)title of this write-up, it is intended to contend that howsoever randomly events may be seen to unfold at different levels of their occurrence in the society at a given point of time, there is an (...)
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A Curious Commonality Underpining Social, Global Events
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Govindrao Talwalkar
30 April 2017TRIBUTE
by Kumar Ketkar
Culturally and socially, Govind Talwalkar was a quintessential middle class Brahmin, who grew up in Dombivali, then a small town in the Thane district, close to Mumbai. In the 1920s and even till 1950s, it was an extended (...) -
The Original Propagator of ‘Coercive Diplomacy’
30 April 2017, by Apratim MukarjiBOOK REVIEW
ndia’s Foreign Policy: Selected Writings by Prof Manohar Lal Sondhi; Editor: Harsh V. Pant; Har-Anand Publications Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi; 2017; pages 224; Price: 695.
As the space for counter-thought in India is being sought to be (...) -
Tribute to Ahmed Kathrada and Excerpts from an interview he gave in February 1991
30 April 2017TRIBUTE
Ahmed Mohamed Kathrada, who passed away at the Medical Center in Johannesburg on March 28, 2017 at the age of 87, was one of the best known freedom fighters of South Africa who waged a steadfast struggle against the aparthied regime and (...) -
Apex Court Fast-tracks Ayodhya Trial
24 April 2017, by SCEDITORIAL
With the Supreme Court today asking BJP patriarch L.K. Advani and his colleagues, notably Murli Manohar Joshi and Uma Bharti, to stand trial for criminal conspiracy in the demolition of the Babri Masjid at Ayodhya on December 6, 1992, (...) -
Checkmated by Teesta: Hasina Visit and the Trajectory of India-Bangladesh Ties
24 April 2017by Purusottam Bhattacharya
The much hyped state visit of the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina Wajed, concluded on April 10, 2017 with feelings of satisfaction on both sides barring the much anticipated missing accord on sharing of the (...) -
EVMs, Rapes and Kidnappings in UP
24 April 2017, by Humra QuraishiMUSINGS
This entire week during my interactive talks with persons from Uttar Pradesh, there has been focus on three prime aspects: Their doubts about the very ‘proper authentic’ functioning of the Electronic Voting Machines! Those doubts coming (...) -
India should make a last-ditch effort to save Kulbhushan Jadhav from execution
24 April 2017, by M K BhadrakumarThe government will need to go beyond self-righteous displays of ‘muscular diplomacy’ to save the brave officer.
The death sentence handed down to former Indian Navy Commander Kulbhushan Sudhir Jadhav through Field General Court Martial in (...) -
The Other “Jallianwala Bagh”
24 April 2017, by Apratim MukarjiOn April 13 India has observed the 97th anniversary of British India’s darkest episode, the massacre of innocents at Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar. That unspeakable act happened in 1919. A year later British India bared its imperial fangs again (...) -
The Prime Minister’s Office: Origin and Evolution
24 April 2017, by Ashok ParthasarathiJawaharlal Nehru, our first Prime Minister, had only his Special Assistant, M.O. Mathai, to assist him in his work. Mathai had the rank and salary of a Joint Secretary to the Government of India. However, Nehru was, for much of his seventeen (...)
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