EDITORIAL
Politics in Tamil Nadu has taken a new turn with the passing of 94-year-old Muthuvel Karunanidhi in Chennai last evening. And today with countless persons lining the road from the Rajaji Hall, where his body was kept for public viewing (...)
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Tamil Titan of National Eminence Departs
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Lynching to Nowhere
13 August 2018, by Kuldip NayarMore gruesome details about the Alwar lynching have come to light. Rakbar Khan, the victim, could have been saved if the police had acted in time. In fact, the force stopped for tea and wasted three-and-a-half hours in reaching the victim to the (...) -
What Pakistan Poll Outcome holds for South Asia
13 August 2018by Mahendra Ved
India’s former Chief Election Commissioner and scholar S.Y. Quraishi once told a gathering that Islam and democracy are not always compatible. It shocked some Muslims present, prompting them to privately inquire whether he was a (...) -
Minister and Bureaucrat
13 August 2018, by Badri RainaWhen minister garlands convict.
Democracy is at its peak;
When bureaucrat speaks the truth.
The iron-frame has a leak.
Some media mention the minister.
Most bash the bureaucrat;
Loyal spokesperson thunders
How the minister is a patriot.
The (...) -
Communists and ‘Quit India’ Struggle
13 August 2018, by Nikhil ChakravarttyFrom N.C.’s Writings
This was the week, fiftytwo years ago, that marked the parting of ways between the Communists and the Congress. It was the Communist opposition to the ‘Quit India’ resolution at the historic AICC session in August 1942 that (...) -
“Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan, Jai Bhim!”
13 August 2018, by Sudhir VombatkereIt was Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri, when he was India’s Prime Minister, who coined the slogan “Jai Jawan! Jai Kisan!”, in the realistic under-standing that the Jawan provides national external security (since then he has also been providing internal (...) -
Military and Common Public: Hope and Paradox in Kashmir
12 August 2018by Roohul Amin Malik
During the phase of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led collation with the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Jammu and Kashmir, the approach to deal with separatists like the Hurriyat, youth stone-pelters and militants had (...) -
Post-Sachar Discourse: Search for an Inclusive Idea of India
12 August 2018by Badre Alam Khan and Mohammad Shahid Alam
Recently under the banner of the Institute of Objective Studies (IOS), a report has been released on ”Vision 2025, Socio-Economic Inequalities: Why does India’s Economic Growth need an Inclusive (...) -
Sushma versus Trolls: Rift within BJP before 2019 polls
12 August 2018by Aurobindo Ghose
There is more to External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj’s apparently graceful response to the Twitter trolling she has faced over her Ministry’s issuance of a passport to an inter-faith couple than meets the eye.
Swaraj has (...) -
The Bugles Are Calling For War
12 August 2018, by T J S GeorgeIMPRESSIONS
The big question is finally being addressed: who will be the Opposition’s candidate for the Prime Minister? It will be unrealistic of course to expect an answer at this stage. But the unexpected flexibility in the Congress’ position (...)
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