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by HIRANMAY KARLEKAR
With the recent passing of Prithvis Chakra-varti—Prithvisda to this writer and Prithvis or Chakravarti to his friends and colleagues—the country has lost one of the last tall eminences of the great decades of print (...)
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2012
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End of an Era in Journalism
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How to Solve the Gujarat and Kashmir Imbroglios: India as a Deliberative Democracy
3 December 2012by TAMANNA KHOSLA
In India, the States of Gujarat and Kashmir have seen a lot of conflict in the past. Kashmir though even now is not free from conflicts of many kinds. Women, men and children in these areas have been affected in the same (...) -
China’s Congress and India’s Congress: Not All Princelings are the Same
3 December 2012, by T J S GeorgeIMPRESSIONS
First, India’s Congress party met, then China’s party Congress met. Don’t see it as just a nice coincidence allowing a nice play on words. The twin events demonstrated yet again how we go in circles while others go forward. The party (...) -
Metastasis of Maoist Networks in Urban India
3 December 2012, by Sudhanshu Bhandari“Work in the rural base areas does not mean abandoning our work in the cities and in the other vast rural areas which are still under the enemy’s rule; on the contrary, without the work in the cities and in these other rural areas, our own rural (...) -
Avoid Unilinear Comprehension of Events
1 December 2012, by SCThe winter session of Parliament has opened on November 22 with the apprehension that it could meet the fate of its monsoon session when practically no business was transacted in both the Houses on account of the Opposition’s (read the BJP’s) (...) -
Open Letter to Justice Katju
1 December 2012by JAVED ANAND
Dear Justice (Markandey) Katju,
As a former judge of the highest court in the country and as a defender of free expression in your current capacity as Chairperson, Press Council of India, you are understandably outraged by the (...) -
Why Hanging Kasab Did Not Make Anyone Feel Any Safer
1 December 2012, by Nandita HaksarThere was a time when I felt so proud to be an Indian. I was proud of India’s achievements, especially of our stand in the international field. We were the champions of the Non-Aligned Movement, we took a firm stand on the Palestinian problem in (...) -
Not the Friends in Need
1 December 2012by JAYA JAITLY
If India had stood solidly by the forces fighting to restore democracy in Burma, Aung San Suu Kyi may have made this country her first stop when she travelled to receive encomiums around the world. Considering the strong influence (...) -
Fundamentalism and Secularism
1 December 2012, by P N Haksar[(On November 27 this year falls the fourteenth death anniversary of distinguished administrator P.N. Haksar, one of the country’s foremost thinkers. On this occasion we remember him by reproducing an article he wrote in Man and Development (Vol. (...) -
Fundamentalism — the Oldest Folly
1 December 2012by A. RASHID
Dictionaries define a fundamentalist as ‘one who believes in the literal interpretation and the infallibility of the Bible’ as if fundamentalism were unique to Christianity alone. This definition may be modified some day, but, the (...)
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