Dear Dr Kalam,
You are one of the most popular ex-Presidents of the Republic of India, the home of one-sixth of humanity. As such, you enjoy high respect at home and abroad. Your eagerness to ignite people’s minds is universally acclaimed. Your (...)
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How Safe Is Kundankulam N-Power Plant?: An Open Letter to Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
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Jaipal Singh Munda
14 February 2012, by A K BiswasThe Commonwealth Games, Delhi 2010, a 12-day extravaganza left an enduring imprint of India’s rising capabilities as a sporting nation. In the meanwhile “the government has made a necessary change in the eligibility criteria for a person getting (...) -
Right Diagnosis but Need for a Clarification
14 February 2012COMMUNICATION
The debate initiated by Mr Ather Farouqui in Mainstream through his seminal piece ‘Indo-Pak Relationship and Urdu: Companions in a Paradoxical Syndrome’ (Mainstream Vol L, No 1, December 24, 2011 (Annual 2011) regarding the (...) -
Concealing Battered Realities
14 February 2012, by Humra QuraishiTell me from where to start off, to begin webbing details to the spread around! Murkier getting each single aspect—whether those scams, or those age rows of ageing Generals or babies lying battered or curtains getting drawn on the very screening (...) -
A Prejudiced View of Mahatma Gandhi Sixty Years after his Death
14 February 2012, by P R DubhashiBOOK REVIEW
Catching Up with Gandhi by Graham Turner; 2010; pages 344; Rs 350. Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and his Struggle with India by Joseph Lelyveld; Harper Collins Publishers; 2011; pages 452; Rs 699.
More than sixty years after Mahatma (...) -
Gandhian Democracy: Ignored by the Constitutionalists of India
14 February 2012, by K G Somasekharan Nair“The condition of England at present is pitiable. I pray to God that India may never be in that plight. That which you consider to be the Mother of Parliaments is like a sterile woman and a prostitute. Both these are harsh terms, but exactly fit (...) -
Need of the Hour
31 January 2012, by SCExactly a year ago, on the eve of our sixtysecond Republic Day, it was written in these columns:
...if one speaks of the political class, there is hardly any political leader of the Right, Centre or Left worthy of emulation in today’s India. They (...) -
A Radiant Figure
31 January 2012, by Jawaharlal NehruOn January 30 this year falls the sixtyfourth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination. On this occasion we remember the Father of the Nation by reproducing excerpts from a piece that Jawaharlal Nehru wrote in homage to the pioneer of our (...) -
No Walmart, Please
31 January 2012, by Rajindar SacharIf the combined Opposition had sat down for weeks so as to find an issue to embarrass the UPA Government and make it a laughing stock before the whole country, they could not have thought of a better issue than the free gift presented to it by (...) -
Belittling CAG Diminishes Parliament’s Effectiveness
31 January 2012, by B P MathurThe Comptroller and Auditor General’s Report on the 2G Spectrum has created a great deal of controversy and his role is being questioned. The Public Accounts Committee could not finalise its report due to the splitting on the issue on party (...)
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