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Pakistan in flap over Russia’s Afghan Moves
25 March 2017, by M K BhadrakumarPakistan is finding itself between the rock and a hard place with the announcement by the Russian Foreign Ministry on March 10, 2017 that the Afghan National Security Advisor, Mohammad Hanif Atmar, was heading for Moscow for talks with Russian (...) -
Bonded Silence
25 March 2017She is in her early playing teens,
uprooted from the scenic setting
of her village home nestling against
a huge sheltering mango grove,
then transplanted on the top floor
of a big building of iron, concrete
towering into the grey city sky.
She (...) -
Return of Indira Gandhi
25 March 2017, by Nikhil ChakravarttyFrom N.C.’s Writings
In the backdrop of the BJP’s resounding success in the Assembly polls, and the elections in UP in particular, we are reproducing the editorial the founder of this journal wrote following Indira Gandhi’s spectacular return to (...) -
Women’s Rights in India: Miles to go
25 March 2017WOMEN’S WORLD
by Archna Katoch
While celebrating the International Women’s Day on March 8, 2017, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said: “The truth is that north and south, east and west [...] everywhere, we still have a (...) -
Making Sense of the Poll Results
19 March 2017POLITICAL NOTEBOOK
The outcome of the elections to the five State Assemblies has confounded everyone—the victor and the vanquished alike. Exit polls indicated the BJP was ahead of others in UP, but the actual result—the BJP and its allies winning (...) -
BJP Government in UP Doesn’t Bode Well for the Poor and Democracy
19 March 2017, by Sandeep PandeyThe shocking victory of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the North Indian State of Uttar Pradesh with over three-fourths of the seats in the Assembly elections appears too one-sided to be true. I had predicted a victory for Mayawati’s Bahujan (...) -
Modi Marches on amid Hope and Fear
19 March 2017by L.K. Sharma
A foreign correspondent who came to India to cover the State elections must stay on to report on this land of miracles. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is being called the Magic Man after he won the largest State of Uttar Pradesh (...) -
Pollsters’ Calculations Go Haywire
19 March 2017by Shahira Naim
The following report appeared in The Tribune (Chandigarh) on March 12, 2017. It is being reproduced with due acknowledgement.
Lucknow, March 11: Ending a 14 year ‘vanvaas’ in Uttar Pradesh the BJP juggernaut has stormed the (...) -
BJP’s Landslide Victory in UP and the Muslim Community
19 March 2017by Arup Kumar Sen
The BJP’s landslide victory, winning 325 seats in the 403-member Assembly in the 2017 elections in UP has opened up a new chapter in the political history of India. We are yet to get micro-analysis of the voting pattern in the (...) -
Winners cheer, Losers sulk, but what Real Difference do Elections make to our Anarchic Democracy?
19 March 2017, by T J S GeorgeIMPRESSIONS
This is a loner’s lament when more than half the country is rejoicing over the BJP’s overwhelming triumph in UP. The party and its leaders deserve the best of compliments. But the victory and the defeat of those who lost need to be (...)
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