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Shri. T.N. Chaturvedi, was a Governor of another kind. I had a personal experience of witnessing how he conducted the business of a Governor. It was exemplary. He kept a distance from both bureaucracy and civil society but was always (...)
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Governor of Another Kind
27 January 2020, by Devaki Jain -
Re-orienting the Republic Day
27 January 2020by Bhartendu Kumar Singh
When the first Republic Day was celebrated in 1950, people just poured out here, there, and everywhere on the Delhi roads to catch a glimpse of their first President as he drove from the majestic Rashtrapati Bhavan (...) -
Women targeted by the Cops!
27 January 2020, by Humra QuraishiMUSINGS
Shouldn’t all possible Commissions for Women and also those for the Human Rights sit up and take note of the fact that in these very recent protests against the CAA and NRC and NPR, the police force has been not just blatantly brute (...) -
Understanding Arab Spring: Interrogating the Role of Media and Diplomatic Communications
27 January 2020BOOK REVIEW
by Bharti Chhibber
Arab Spring: Not Just A Mirage by Nilofar Suhrawardy; New Delhi: Gaurav Book Centre; 2019; pp. 167; Rs 825.
It has been nine years since the world witnessed one of the largest wave of democracy of the 21st Century (...) -
Lead, kindly Light....
27 January 2020, by Nikhil ChakravarttyFrom N.C.’s Writings
Every year we dutifully go through the ritual of offering homage to Gandhiji on the day of his martyrdom.
We shall once again be witnessing the ceremony on January 30 to be conducted as per protocol—early morning prayer at (...) -
We Shall See
27 January 2020The following is the transcreation of Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s “We Shall See” by Badri Raina.
Inevitable that we shall see
Dawn of the promised day,
When pinnacles of tyranny
Will come to be blown away
Like bales of cotton loosely held,
When the ground (...) -
DPT—A Man Who Touched Many a Heart!
27 January 2020TRIBUTE
by Syeda Hameed
The following lines from Allama Iqbal express what Devi Prasad Tripathi means today to all his friends and admirers.
Marney waley marte hain lekin fana hotey nahin
Woh haqeeqat mein kabhi humse juda hotey nahin
Marne (...) -
A Pilgrim in Quest of Truth
27 January 2020On January 30 this year falls the seventysecond anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s martyrdom. We pay our homage to the Father of the Nation on this occasion by reproducing some paragraphs from Jawaharlal Nehru’s Foreword to D.G. Tendulkar’s Mahatma (...) -
Formation of State Government
27 January 2020by P.B. Sawant
Under our Constitution, we have accepted parliamentary democracy as our political system. It means and implies that the executive/ministry consists of members of the legislature, that is, the Assembly in the case of the State, and (...) -
Gandhi-Ambedkar Debate
27 January 2020by Ashok Celly
Gandhi was the inventor of the world’s most original non-violent revolution called Satyagraha. He thought it would prove India’s most effective weapon in her fight for freedom against the British. And it did. The British left (...)
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