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The Long-term Goal of PADS
17 February 2014, by Mukul DubeA dozen or so people met on October 20, 2013 to speak of the recent violence against Muslims in Muzaffarnagar and to discuss the possibility of preventing such violence. That was the first meeting of what was named the People’s Alliance for (...) -
Communalism will be the Poll Plank
17 February 2014, by Kuldip NayarThe Congress is a late starter. It firmed up its campaign for the April-May parliamentary elections only two months ago. The party was complacent till it was woken up by the dismal defeats in four of the five States during the Assembly polls. (...) -
Conferring Rights on Citizens: Laws and their Implementation
17 February 2014, by P R DubhashiI. Policy Contradictions
The UPA Government at the Centre, dominated by the Congress party, has followed during the last nine years a dual policy. On one side, a policy of marketisation, privatisation, liberali-sation and globalisation which has (...) -
Interrogating the Anti-graft Platform
17 February 2014, by Arun KumarThe Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has announced its intention to fight against corrupt leaders from all parties in the coming general election. So, anti-corruption seems to be its main plank since it has not yet announced anything else. Its success in (...) -
Unscrambling the Electoral Discourse
17 February 2014, by Uttam SenWe, among the aam aadmi and the middle classes, have habitually seethed over the daily pinpricks that immiserate us. Yet at the defining moment we are caught in two minds. We are watching the AAP and its activist Ministers in Delhi from afar, (...) -
STR and Mode of Information, Crisis in Modern Thought, Nature of Working Class
17 February 2014COMMUNICATION
Recently, I had a chance to glimpse portions of a fascinating book by Anil Rajimwale under the title The Particle and Philosophy in Crisis: Towards a Mode of Information. I am yet to fully grasp its contents. But I was fascinated (...) -
Wield the Broom to Clean the Minds of the People
17 February 2014by Jeevesh Gupta
The difference between saying and doing is infinite, if you really look at the state of our nation today. A Central Parliament along with the Legislative Assemblies and Councils are filled with representatives elected by us who (...) -
Acid Test for Mulayam
17 February 2014, by Nikhil ChakravarttyFrom N.C.’s Writings
Varanasi and Kanpur are the danger signals which Mulayam Singh Yadav can hardly afford to underplay. The significant impact that was made on the Indian political scene by his victory in the December elections along with his (...) -
What about 2014?
17 February 2014by Arko Dasgupta
If people are to be believed, 2014 is slated to be a year of much significance for India and its citizens. What makes 2014 so special? Is it the numbers at play? They add up to 7, which I’m told can be a rather lucky number. (...) -
Delhi fails to win Japan’s ‘Nuclear Trust’
17 February 2014, by M K BhadrakumarWhen joint statements after high-level visits become verbose, a sense of uneasiness arises: is it an attempt to make a mountain out of a mole-hill? That impression becomes unavoidable when one reads the joint statement issued after the visit of (...)
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