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Sun Sets on the British Empire
9 July 2018, by Nikhil ChakravarttyOn July 1, 1997 Hong Kong came back to the People’s Republic of China from Britain. On the anniversary of Hong Kong’s sovereignty having been resumed to the PRC, we are reproducing the following article written by N.C. on that historic event. It (...) -
BJP’s Pull-out from J&K’s Coalition Government
9 July 2018, by Humra QuraishiMUSINGS
The BJP’s political games are writ large in the Kashmir region soon after its pull-out from the PDP-BJP coalition government in J&K. In fact, to go a step backwards, it was more than obvious that the BJP-PDP pairing was more of a (...) -
Christianity and Development among the Tribes of North-East India: Pros and Cons
9 July 2018, by J.J. Roy BurmanA majority of the tribes in all the States of North-East India, except Arunachal Pradesh and Tripura, have embraced Christianity leaving behind their traditional religions. However, their traditional social structure based on exogamous clan (...) -
Preliminary Inquiry into Mega Projects of South America and South Asia
9 July 2018by Gopal Krishna
Simile of Water
In his Budget speech in July 2009 Pranab Mukherjee (as India’s Finance Minister) announced the setting up of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) as a major step in improving governance with (...) -
People’s Movement and the Story of the RTI
9 July 2018BOOK REVIEW
by Rakesh Kumar Singh
The RTI Story: Power to the Peopleby Aruna Roy with the MKSS Collective; Roli Books, New Delhi; 2018; pp. 424; Rs 495.
The RTI Story: Power to the People is about one of the most powerful people’s movements in (...) -
Tribals need Justice for Land and Forest Rights
9 July 2018, by Bharat DograIt is by now widely agreed that tribal communities in India have suffered in many cases from extreme injustice in most basic livelihood contexts of farmland and forest rights.
In a widely quoted paper ‘Review of land-reforms during 1950-95’ (...) -
Release Dr G.N. Saibaba, urge UN Experts
9 July 2018The following report has come from Geneva on June 28, 2018.
United Nations rights experts (Catalina Devandas, Special Rapporteur on Rights of Persons with Disabilities; Michel Forst, Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders; (...) -
Diverting Attention, BJP Style
30 June 2018, by SCEDITORIAL
We have just observed the 43rd anniversary of the Imposition of internal Emergency that constituted a blot on our development as the world’s largest democracy. But one was startled to find petty politics being played by our national (...) -
An Apology Overdue
30 June 2018, by Kuldip NayarCertain dates are so important in a nation’s history that they cannot be forgotten. One such is June 25, when Mrs Indira Gandhi, then the Prime Minister, switched off the lights of democracy. Instead of resigning from her office after the (...) -
The Legacy for Tomorrow
30 June 2018, by Nikhil ChakravarttyFrom N.C.’s Writings
June 27 this year marked Nikhil Chakravartty’s twentieth death anniversary. On this occasion we remember him by reproducing the following articles he had written at different times. We are also carrying tributes to him (...)
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