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Is Malaysia turning into a Theocratic State?
6 March 2013, by S.K. DuttaMalaysia, a very important country in South-East Asia and a vital member of the ASEAN, is facing a huge turmoil in the last couple of years with the hard-core Islamist fundamentalists hell-bent upon the turning the country into a hard-core (...) -
Present Status of Power Sector in India
6 March 2013by Hiranmoy Roy and Anil Kumar
The expectations of the power sector from Union Budget 20013-14 must be formed on the basis of its present status. Therefore, an examination of the present status of the power sector is of special importance. The (...) -
New Indian Political Dialogue
6 March 2013, by Amna MirzaThe recently concluded Chintan Shivir of the Congress party will be etched in people’s memory for years to come for two reasons: elevation of Rahul Gandhi as the party’s Vice-President being the first and his candid speech being the second. The (...) -
The Debate Around Freedom of Expression: Need for Deliberative Democracy in India
6 March 2013by Tamanna Khosla
The right to freedom of speech as one of the basic human rights is enshrined in the main international human rights documents. Freedom of speech (synonym of freedom of expression) is an inseparable element of a democratic (...) -
Increasing Support for Pension
Parishad’s Demands
6 March 2013COMMUNICATION
In recent months the demand for pensions with dignity for all elderly citizens has gathered immense support in India. In the first week of March thousands of elderly citizens from all over the country will be coming to Delhi to (...) -
Towards Global Isolation: A Word of Caution
6 March 2013by V.C. Bhutani
We in India need to call things by their proper names, not sparing the US or Pakistan and not bending over backwards to be nice to China. It is reasonable to assume that the US needs Pakistan in order to complete the ISAF (...) -
When the State abets Communalism, Independence itself is in Danger
6 March 2013, by T J S GeorgeIMPRESSIONS
The soul of modern India is its liberal democracy. Are we in danger of losing it? Communal posturings are getting ever more blatant. Caste leaders are defying the law openly. Intolerance is flaunted as a badge of honour. The (...) -
Real Meaning of Shahbag
26 February 2013, by SCWith ‘choppergate’—that is, the Rs 350-crore kickbacks allegedly involved in the Rs 3546-crore contract for the purchase of 12 VVIP Augusta-Westland helicopters from the Italian aerospace and defence giant Finmeccanica—assuming a disproportionately (...) -
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26 February 2013February 21 is the International Mother Tongue Day as declared by the United Nations in recognition of the martyrs of the language movement who fell to the Pakistani police’s bullets on that day in 1952 in Dhaka while demanding that their mother (...) -
Shahbag Square — Why We, Pakistanis, Don’t Know and Don’t Care
26 February 2013by Pervez Hoodbhoy
Shahbag Square—where’s that? Abdul Kader Mullah—who’s he? A bunch of university students in Islamabad, with whom I was informally conversing yesterday (February 15), hadn’t heard of either. Of course, they knew of Tahrir Square and (...)
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