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The Lynchings
10 October 2015, by Badri RainaA quickly assembled loud speaker atop a make-shift temple first blared the rumour that, allegedly, a cow had been slaughtered in the village and that Hindus must gather apace. Simultaneously, that wonder from Silicon Valley called Whatsapp (...) -
Today‘s Imperative / Moradabad: What Really Happened
10 October 2015, by Nikhil ChakravarttyFrom N.C.’s Writings
In the wake of the horrendous incident in Bisada village at Dadri, we reproduce here N.C.’s editorial in Mainstream Annual 1980 highlighting the happenings in Moradabad in August 1980. It is followed by the reproduction of a (...) -
Utkalmani Gopabandhu Das: A Compassionate Rebel and a Modern Man
10 October 2015by S.N. Sahu
Utkalmani Gopabandhu Das was one of the extraordinary personalities of modern India. He was born in Odisha on October 9, 1877 seven years after the birth of Mahatma Gandhi and breathed his last in 1928, twenty years before the (...) -
Forgotten Heroes
10 October 2015, by Kuldip NayarI have not been able to understand why Pakistan is reluctant to recognise heroes who went to the gallows during the national struggle for independence. Bhagat Singh is one of them. Eightyfour years ago he was sentenced to death by the special (...) -
Media and Children
10 October 2015by Dipa Dixit
India is home to 17 per cent of the world’s children, and has the world’s largest child population. Despite this, India’s children are often neglected and their rights ignored. Of the 430 million children in India, an estimated 55 (...) -
Exploring Women’s Spaces
10 October 2015book review
by Noor Zaheer
Indian Women: Contemporary Essays, editors: Devaki Jain and C.P. Sujaya; Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broad-casting, Government of India; 2015; pages: (i)- (xi) + 235; Price: Rs 335.
Feminist (...) -
Nepal’s New Constitution and Contending Voices
10 October 2015by Sangeeta Thapliyal
Nepal created history by writing a new Constitution through an elected Constituent Assembly. The Constitution was promulgated on September 20 in the Constituent Assembly hall which acted as working place for the CA. On the (...) -
Jayaprakash Narayan and Socialist India
10 October 2015Jayaprakash Narayan (the venerable ‘JP’ of Indian politics) was born on October 11, 1902 and passed away on October 8, 1979. To make his 113th birth anniversary we are carrying the following article.
by Vivek Kumar Srivastava
The initial idea of (...) -
Female Suicides : A Challenge in the Current Indian Scenario
10 October 2015WOMEN’S WORLD
by Shahla Tabassum
The loss of human life in any form is not good for any society, as we know human beings are one of most important creatures of God and, more importantly, constitute vital human resources of the country. A report (...) -
As IS Terror grows, Russia bombs Syrian Targets; the World is Changing — at India’s Doorsteps
10 October 2015, by T J S GeorgeIMPRESSIONS
When 10 million Bangladeshis poured into India to escape from the brutalities of Pakistan’s army, war followed. When 12 million Syrians were uprooted and four million of them fled across unwelcome borders to get into Europe, a good (...)
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