I was a foetus: the future crown
of womanhood, growing
in the warmth of your womb,
cradled in a web of dreams:
for you the caring motherhood,
for me an ever receding skyline.
Suddenly something happened;
you started miscarrying;
frantically your (...)
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2018
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The Edict of Life
2 June 2018 -
Tuticorin: the Vedanta Doctrine
2 June 2018First we give you bagfuls
To make government,
Then you commit not to meddle
With our profit-piling hunt.
But when people demonstrate
Against our killer-loot,
You promptly send the troopers
To take aim and shoot.
Thus it is that you and we— (...) -
After Karnataka
2 June 2018, by Badri RainaThe decline of the National Democratic Alliance is by now a dated story. The few partners of the Bharatiya Janata Party—who are still formally in the Alliance—may be understood to be in the throes of a judicial separation, pending divorce. The (...) -
Lessons from Karnataka
2 June 2018by Binoy Viswam
Developments in Karnataka conveyed an important message to the nation. It marked the beginning of the end of the authoritarian rule of the BJP in the country. All secular, democratic and Left forces are expected to draw (...) -
Challenge to India’s Pluralism
2 June 2018, by Kuldip NayarHowever justified Delhi’s Archbishop Anil Joseph Thomas Cuoto may be in calling fellow Catholic Christians to pray for a change of government at the Centre, he is guilty of committing a grave mistake of mixing religion with politics. In a (...) -
Is it Politically Relevant today to ask whether Nehru visited Bhagat Singh in Jail?
2 June 2018by Ram Puniyani
In the recently held Karnataka elections, Narendra Modi made statements which are not true, and which are made to raise the emotive pitch against his opponents. In a blatant lie, in a rally in Bidar, he asked: “When Shaheed Bhagat (...) -
Finding Hope Amidst Despair
2 June 2018, by Bharat DograDuring the first two decades of the 21st century it has become increasingly clear that this is going to be the most critical century of human history in the sense that survival issues or existential issues created by human activities are likely (...) -
BJP’s Dangerous Politics
2 June 2018, by Nikhil ChakravarttyFrom N.C.’s Writings
One of my earliest reporting experiences was the great Calcutta killing of 1946. Fierce communal passions were unleashed and thousands were done to death on both sides in the course of a couple of days. But behind that gory (...) -
Wise Philosophers, Fanatic Kings
2 June 2018, by T J S GeorgeIMPRESSIONS
The time gap between voting day and results day is one of the afflictions of democracy. The tension is excruciating when it’s an election that will decide the temper of life for a considerable length of time. Will the freedoms we (...) -
Rape of Forms, of Psyches!
2 June 2018, by Humra QuraishiMUSINGS
I’m finding it impossible to grasp the ruthlessness meted out to rape victims in this country. Take the case of the eight-year-old girl raped and murdered in Kathua, on the outskirts of Jammu, and also that of the 16-year-old girl raped (...)
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