by Krishna Jha
The cultural meaning of gender, like the cultural meaning of class, is evolved by men and women, according to the spaces they occupy in the society at its roots, and this meaning in itself is intensely political. The options and (...)
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No to Instant Triple Talaaq
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Implications of Latest Paris Conference on Palestine
27 February 2017by Gautam Sen
An international conference on the Palestine issue has been held in Paris on January 15, 2017, at the initiative of France and chaired by the French Foreign Minister, Jean Marc Ayrault. This was a follow-up to the earlier Paris (...) -
The Litmus Test
27 February 2017, by Nikhil ChakravarttyFrom N.C.’s Writings
The menace of communalism looms large in this country today perhaps more than at any time before. With all the dire warnings being sounded repeatedly against the danger of destabilisation, the government so far has done very (...) -
India - US: Wheel turns Full Circle
21 February 2017POLITICAL NOTEBOOK
Some historic comments never get stale. Marx opened his Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte with these words: “Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot (...) -
Democracy in Decline
21 February 2017by Ashok Celly
Indian politics presents a distressing picture today. Both the ruling party and the Opposition have shown little regard for Parliament, the most important of our democratic institutions. Also, they seem to be totally indifferent (...) -
Sreelatha Swaminathan Is No More
21 February 2017Veteran leader of the CPI-ML (Liberation) Sreelatha Swaminathan, 73, passed away in Udaipur (Rajasthan) in the early morning of February 5, 2017. She had suffered a brain stroke on January 28 night and was rushed to a hospital in Udaipur where (...) -
Lucknow to Delhi: Why UP Elections Matter
21 February 2017COMMENTARY
by Navneet Sharma and Divyanshu Patel
“Whosoever rules on water shall rule upon the earth”
If the speaker would have been aware of the politics and demographics of India he would have said something similar about the rule in UP and at (...) -
Is Ayodhya Issue Still Alive?
21 February 2017by Nilofar Suhrawardy
Does the Ayodhya issue still have the same relevance that it had around 25 years ago? Undeniably, there still prevail several elements keen to make religious noise over the Ayodhya issue. But does their noise have the (...) -
Ayodhya and Hindu-Muslim Unity
21 February 2017, by Nikhil ChakravarttyFrom N.C.’s Writings
In the wake of the bid by the ruling party at the Centre for communal polarisation against the backdrop of the impending UP Assembly elections, the relevance of the following article by N.C. after the demolition of the Babri (...) -
UP Elections 2017: BJP’s Divisive Agenda
21 February 2017by Ram Puniyani
The forthcoming UP Assembly elections (2017) are regarded as very crucial for all the political parties and more so for the future of secularism and democracy in the country. The BJP’s rise on the national scene began at a higher (...)
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