The following is the letter of the former Chief of Naval Staff Admiral L. Ramdas (Retd.) to the Chief Justice of India.
Dear Hon Chief Justice of India,
All democracies exist and survive on three main pillars — namely the Executive, Legislature (...)
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Sudden Death of Justice Loya
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Journey from Bhopal Disaster to Nuclear Disaster
2 December 2017by Gopal Krishna
“We may admire what he does, but we despise what he is.” (referring tohumans who act mechanically on instructions) - Wilhelm von Humboldt, 1792
The 33rd anniversary of the industrial disaster of Bhopal, some six years after the (...) -
Grim Warning from Bhopal / Mother India beckons us All / By Decree Alone
2 December 2017, by Nikhil ChakravarttyFrom N.C.’s Writings
Grim Warning from Bhopal
It was a massacre of innocents by all counts. What happened at the Union Carbide plant at Bhopal in the early morning of December 3 was not just a tragedy but a heinous crime which killed nearly two (...) -
Danger from Nuclear Reactors
2 December 2017by P.B. Sawant
The news published with fanfare on May 18, 2017 that the government had decided to install ten indigenous nuclear reactors in four different States to augment energy by 7000 MW followed by the news on June 2, 2017 that two (...) -
Classy Caste and Prejudice: Being Scientist, Being Khole
2 December 2017by Navneet Sharma and Anamica
Maharashtra is a land of wonders. Wonder leads to philosophy, it amazes and amuses, simultaneously it bewilders. Maharashtra has been the land of Shahuji Maharaj, Ambedkar, Ramteerth, Ramdas, Namdeo Dhasal, Bhaurao (...) -
India surviving inside the Republic of Lynching
2 December 2017by Arun Srivastava
In eastern Indian States, especially in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, people have been witness to an old-fashioned rural politics, called the “Bhumihari policy”. Under the policy the head of the family usually chastises the younger (...) -
Adivasi has no reason to Dance
2 December 2017BOOK REVIEW
by Debatra Dey
Adwasi will not Dance by Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar; Speaking Tiger, New Delhi; 2017; pages 189.
Sometimes it seems that the border-line between fiction and reality is shrouded in a cloud of confusion. It is hardly (...) -
Russian Revolution and India — V
2 December 2017by Shaukat Usmani
IN 1919, there was born in Moscow, a unique organisation embracing all the revolutionary socialist elements of the world. This was the historic Communist International.
There was no Indian present at the First Congress of the (...) -
Guru Arjan Dev — The Great Visionary
2 December 2017, by Ashok CellyGuru Arjan Dev (1563-1606)—the fifth Sikh guru—was a great visionary and one of India’s greatest heroes. The grandeur and catholicity of his vision is best seen in the compilation and editing of the Adi Granth which later, in its expanded form, (...) -
Renu Chakravartty’s Birth Centenary Observed in New Delhi
2 December 2017A largely attended public meeting was held at Ajoy Bhavan, the CPI headquarters in New Delhi, on November 25, 2017 to observe the birth centenary of Renu Chakravartty that fell on October 21, 2017. It was presided over by CPI General Secretary (...)
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