January 2009

• Amid Ominous Forebodings
  26 January 2009, by SC
  As we are about to observe the fiftyninth anniversary of an event that consolidated our independence—that is, the transformation of the Indian Union into a Republic simultaneous with the adoption of the Constitution of the free nation on January  (...)
• Bapu
  26 January 2009, by Jawaharlal Nehru

  January 30 this year marks the sixtyfirst anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination. On this occasion we remember the Father of the Nation by reproducing the following piece by Jawaharlal Nehru written shortly after Gandhiji’s departure.

• Moral Warfare
  26 January 2009
  By segregating ethics to the Kingdom of Heaven and depriving the Kingdom of Earth from its use man has up to now never seriously acknowledged the need of higher ideals in politics or in practical affairs. That is why when disagreements occur  (...)
• Netaji: The Undying Legend
  26 January 2009, by R K Bhatnagar
  [(January 23 happens to be the 112th birth anniversary of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose. We remember that indomitable freedom fighter and uncompromising crusader against British imperialism with the following tribute.)]
  Is there any parallel that  (...)
• Lessons from the Jammu and Kashmir Elections
  26 January 2009, by Balraj Puri
  Omar Abdullah received a massive reception when he arrived in Jammu, a day before taking oath of office on January 5 as the eleventh Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir.
  In July-August Omar’s effigies were burnt in Jammu for a word in his much  (...)
• Kashmir in Perspective
  26 January 2009, by I K Gujral
  A history-maker has surrendered to Death. For a great man like him there can be no conventional praise or blame. Physically and mentally he was outsize.
  It was once said about De Gaulle—of whom he reminded me so much—that he was possessed by an  (...)
• On Kashmir and Palestine
  26 January 2009, by Humra Quraishi
  All these days I have been reading one report after another on the recent elections held in the state of J&K. I was in the Valley as the results came trickling in and though volumes can be written on the very reactions to these results and the  (...)
• Israel’s Shifting Strategy in Gaza Strip
  26 January 2009, by Sujata Ashwarya Cheema
  With the beginning of the ground offensive in Gaza Strip, the objective of ‘Operation Cast Lead’ appears to have shifted subtly. Though the primary aim of the operation, as reiterated by Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak, is to force Hamas to  (...)
• Israeli Invasion of Gaza
  26 January 2009, by Shree Shankar Sharan
  Holocaust, the attempted annihilation of the Jews by Adolph Hitler and the Nazis had exposed the true and ghastly nature of fascism, made the world stand up against it, inspired the allies to fight World War II and stop Hitler from annexing the  (...)
• The Many Roads to Iraq…
  26 January 2009, by Seema Sridhar
  It’s official now. Barack Obama has been elected as the 44th President of the United States by the 538-member Electoral College as mandated by the US Constitution and shall take charge at the 56th presidential inauguration on January 20 amidst  (...)

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