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Whither Indian Politics/Elections?
4 March 2012, by Rajindar SacharDemocracy is a basic feature of our Constitution. Parliament and Legislative Assem-blies are instruments created to give effect to the democratic content of people governing themselves. Political parties are the medium through which (...) -
No Guarantee of Food Security in Children’s Incredible India
4 March 2012by RAZIA ISMAIL
India’s decision-makers seem to find it difficult to see that there are children in the country. Being unable to see them, they are unable to perceive that they are hungry. In an age when we are able to use euphemisms like (...) -
Syrian Uprising and Muslim Apprehensions
4 March 2012by ADFAR RASHID SHAH and FAYAZ AHMAD BHAT
The ten-month-long Syrian unrest against President Bashar al-Assad, one more increment to the Arab Spring, has assumed the shape of unending mass demonstrations but simultaneously it is a paradox (...) -
Moscow Stirs itself on Syria
4 March 2012, by M K Bhadrakumar[This article reached us a bit late. It is being used here as its contents still retain their validity.]
With the “Friends of Syria” (FOS) grouping sponsored by the Western powers and their Arab allies scheduled to hold its first meeting in Tunis (...) -
Faiz Ahmed Faiz: Harmony of Thought and Feeling in His Poetry
4 March 2012by ZAHIDA ZAIDI
The 101st birth anniversary of Faiz Ahmed Faiz, one of our subcontinent’s best Urdu poets, was observed last month. He was born in Sialkot on February 13, 1911, and passed away in Lahore in November 1984. Remembering him we are (...) -
Islamic Banking in India at the Service of Pan-Islamists
4 March 2012by ATHER FAROUQUI
The author has sent the following article explaining the background of its evolution that reads: “This article in its present form has evolved out of a previous one published in EPW (May 7-13, 2011) as Commentary and an even (...) -
Right to Freedom of Expression and Contemporary Left in India
4 March 2012COMMUNICATION
Apropos Mr Hasan Zaheer’s letter in Mainstream [Volume L, No 8, February 11, 2011], I must say that he has brought a very fine writer, Mr Ather Farouqui, into sharp focus through his critical appreciation. I must add that Mr (...) -
On PWA and Fight against Communalism
4 March 2012COMMUNICATION
Mr Ather Farouqui’s article in the annual issue of Mainstream ‘Indo-Pak Relationship: Companions of Paradoxical Syndrome’ is unique in many ways. He is the first to address the issue of Urdu and its relevance to the worsening (...) -
Polluted Politics
4 March 2012, by Nikhil ChakravarttyFROM N.C.’S WRITINGS
The sensational criminal case that has come up in Bombay focussing on an alleged plot to kill Nusli Wadia and implicating in it an Ambani close to Dhirubhai and some of the underworld mafia, has serious political implications (...) -
Citizens’ Statement against PM’s Malicious Comment on Kudankulam Struggle Who is under the foreign hand?
4 March 2012We strongly deplore the PM’s recent statement that the people’s struggle against Kudankulam nuclear power plant is instigated by foreign agencies and funds. We cannot accept our PM to stoop to such low levels.
This allegation is a clear hint from (...)
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