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US-Russia Ties: As Trump moves in, Memory mixes with Desire in Moscow
12 February 2017, by M K BhadrakumarA close look at the inaugural speech by US President Donald Trump and the outline of the various key plans of his administration that has been published immediately afterward on the White House website on January 20 amply bears out the basis of (...) -
Trump and Modi hover over the Jaipur Literature Festival
12 February 2017by L.K. Sharma
The reports of America’s decline are exaggerated. The Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) proved it. The POTUS—the President of the United States—matters. Donald Trump got mentioned in several sessions. It was yet another victory for (...) -
Trump, Modi and a Shaft of Worrying Similarities
12 February 2017, by Mani Shankar AiyarFrancis Fukuyama, the celebrated Japanese-American intellectual, who saw the end of the Cold War as the “End of History” but a “Clash of Civilisations” as the next stage, has explained the accession of Donald J. Trump to the Presidency of the United (...) -
Unimportance of Awards
12 February 2017, by Kuldip NayarWhen the distinguished writers and artists return to the Academies the awards which had been conferred on them, the question to ask is not why they did not do so earlier, say, at a testing time like the Emergency. Writers and artists are a (...) -
Labour Issues in the Current Milieu: An Introspection
12 February 2017by l. Mishra
Let me begin with a historic introspection.
“O mother! Why is it that I am black when everybody else around is white? The angels, the Tarzan, the little stars who twinkle are all white. The President’s residence is called ‘White (...) -
Kalpana Dutt
12 February 2017, by Nikhil ChakravarttyFrom N.C.’s Writings
The following lines were written by N.C. twentytwo years ago and published in this journal’s February 18, 1995 issue. It is being reproduced on the occasion of the distinguished revolutionary Kalpana Dutt’s twentysecond (...) -
Xi Jinping’s China
12 February 2017, by Dipak MalikAfter having some serious hiccups last year in its long march to a market economy with Chinese characteristics, the synod of the top Mandarin bosses has confabulated for resuscitating the second largest sagging economy of the world by (...) -
Hatred Justifies All
12 February 2017, by Mukul DubeA judge of the Bombay High Court recently gave bail to three men who were charged with a murder committed in the presence of eye-witnesses. Here is part of the judgment, which looks not at facts but at presumed motivation:
“The fault of the (...) -
The Meaning of being Gandhi
12 February 2017, by Sandeep PandeyA controversy erupted recently when Narendra Modi’s photo appeared behind the charkha in a calendar of the Khadi and Village Industries Commission where people are used to seeing Mahatma Gandhi. Some Modi supporters are asking why there was no (...) -
Turkey’s bid to join the EU: Have we reached a Point of No-Return?
12 February 2017by Sanjal Shastri
The year 2016 has been a testing year for Turkey’s relations with the European Union (EU). With Austria’s Foreign Minister threatening to freeze talks regarding Turkey’s EU membership bid, irreparable damage might be done to (...)
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