by Mohan K. Tikku
It has been a time of great political uncertainty in Sri Lanka since Friday (October 26) when President Mathripala Sirisena announced the appointment of former President Mahinda Rajapakse as the new Prime Minister of the (...)
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Sri Lanka: Let Parliament Express Its Will
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Dire Threat to Peace: A New Nuclear Arms Race Has Begun
3 November 2018by Mikhail Gorbachev
Over 30 years ago, President Ronald Reagan and I signed in Washington the United States-Soviet Treaty on the elimination of intermediate-
and shorter-range missiles. For the first time in history, two classes of nuclear (...) -
Selected articles - from Early Recollections to Some Editorials, Commentaries
3 November 2018, by Nikhil ChakravarttyAfter N.C.’s demise on June 27, 1998 three pieces were recovered from his notes as evidence that he had started writing his autobiography. Since November 3 this year happens to be his 105th birth anniversary, we are carrying the following piece (...) -
On 105th birth anniversary of Nikhil Chakravartty on November 3, 2018 - Some Tributes (published after his death)
3 November 2018Former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao was to have released the book India-Pakistan: Themes Beyond Borders—Selections from Nikhil Chakravartty’s Writings (published by Konark Publishers Pvt. Ltd.) at the meeting held in New Delhi on November 3, (...) -
Sacrifice at the Altar of Development
3 November 2018TRIBUTE
by Medha Patkar and Sandeep Pandey
The legendary Professor Guru Das Agrawal, who got promoted from a Lecturer directly to Professor at the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur after having finished his Ph.D from the (...) -
National Security Adviser Sermonises on National Governance
3 November 2018by Gautam Sen
India’s National Security Adviser (NSA), Ajit Doval, has given a clarion call for a strong and decisive government for at least ten years, while delivering the latest Sarder Patel Memorial Lecture entitled “Dream India : 2030”. The (...) -
Telangana caretaker CM K. Chandrasekhara Rao
3 November 2018, by T J S GeorgeIMPRESSIONS
As Chief Ministers go, K. Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR) is in a class of his own. He is known as an effective speaker and he is a good tactician. These were factors in the success of his mission to carve Telangana out of the original (...) -
Poetry of Pain, Life and Death
3 November 2018BOOK REVIEW
by H.K. Dua
My Soul Flower, a collection of poems by Lavlin Thadani; published by Authors Press; pages: 287.
In the 21st century India, we the people, are increasingly becoming dots and digits. Only an unanimated table of algorithms (...) -
Strong Democracy at Work
3 November 2018, by Badri RainaA strong democratic state
Must learn from the sultanate;
It better know who does what
At any hour of day and night.
So, first, the various agencies
Must spy on recalcitrant citizen;
Then they must do so to each other,—
The IB on the CBI, and both (...) -
Bhanwari Devi, the First Victim of Sexual Violence as a Worker
3 November 2018by Basudev Mazumdar
In the wake of the #MeToo campaign by educated, employed and largely empowered urban women no one should forget the extreme plight of Bhanwari Devi of Rajasthan who worked as a ‘saathin’ for the family welfare programme long (...)
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