MUSINGS
As the tragic news comes in of 39 of our men killed in the Iraqi township of Mosul, allegedly by the ISIS, one sits back shaken. There are too many disasters and human tragedies taking place in the Middle East—barbaric killings, car (...)
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Mosul Tragedy, Decoding ISIS
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Rahul in a New Avatar?
31 March 2018, by Kuldip NayarRahul Gandhi is the new star on the Congress firmament. His mother, Sonia Gandhi, has passed on the baton to him and he is the party President. Rahul is the great grandson of Jawaharlal Nehru. Thus the office of the Prime Minister, if and when (...) -
Anti-Muslim Riots in Sri Lanka
31 March 2018by Irfan Engineer
The recent anti-Muslim riots in Kandy, Sri Lanka, once again demonstrate that religion is becoming more salient in the public domain, including politics, in South Asia. My recent visit to Sri Lanka and talking to a (...) -
India-Vietnam Ties in Changed Regional Setting
31 March 2018, by M K BhadrakumarOnly 18 months separated Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Vietnam (September 2-3, 2016) and Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang’s visitto India (March 2-4, 2018). But the regional setting of the two countries’ so-called Comprehensive (...) -
PDP at Crossroads
31 March 2018by Javid Ahmad Ahanger and Mudasir Ahmad Qazi
Thomas Jefferson, the founding father of the United States of America, once said: “The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of good (...) -
Tribute to Dr Ajit Mozoomdar
31 March 2018TRIBUTE
Dr Ajit Mozoomdar, 94, who breathed his last in New Delhi’s Apollo Hospital on February 12, 2018, was a brilliant academic. A distinguished economist, he joined the IAAS in 1946 and was an eminent member of the Indian Administrative (...) -
Time for Revisionist Communism
31 March 2018, by T J S GeorgeIMPRESSIONS
Governmental non-performance in Kerala and electoral devastation in Tripura gave the CPM its unfinest hour in history. Just then the imaginative leadership of the All India Kisan Sabha miraculously pushed it into its finest hour; the (...) -
Threat to Constitutional Structure
31 March 2018, by Nikhil ChakravarttyFrom N.C.’s Writings
A situation of unprecedented confusion synchronising with the onset of serious crisis for the entire constitutional structure of the Indian state presents before the nation today.
On the one side is the outright challenge of (...) -
Understanding Section 497 of IPC: Is it Gender-neutral?
31 March 2018by Shiladitya Chakraborty
The concept of adultery is as old as the institution of marriage. Adultery as a form of social deviance has been universally condemned since time immemorial. It has been condemned by all major religions of the world, (...) -
JNU on the Roads: Protesting Injustice, Suppression and Repression
31 March 2018by Rushda Siddiqui
On March 23, 2018, thousands of students of the JNU, supported by students and teachers from a range of other universities, marched across the city seeking justice in a democratic India. On March 23, the scribes covering the (...)
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