Shri Rajnath Singhji,
Namaskar. It was heartening to note that as the Home Minister of a democratic-secular India you warned Pakistan, an Islamic state, not to be misled by the illusion that the latter could divide India on the basis of (...)
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Open Letter to Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh - With RSS Ruling India, Do We Really Need Pakistan or Any other Foreign Enemy To Destroy Democratic-secular India?
26 December 2016, by Shamsul Islam -
The Idea of Interlinking Rivers: Cupidity or stupidity?
26 December 2016, by S G VombatkereThe idea
A project to interlink Indian rivers was formally declared in 2002. It was envisaged as a grand scheme to link 37 major Indian rivers by 30 link canals (14 Himalayan and 16 peninsular) with a total length of 14,900-km. The interlinking (...) -
Russian Revolution: A Century of Historic Lessons
26 December 2016, by Anil RajimwaleThe observance of a century of the Russian Revolution has begun on November 7 this year. This article is being published in that connection.
No other revolution has so deeply impacted the world as the great Russian Revolution. It has begun its (...) -
End of an Iconic Revolutionary Phase in Post-WW II
26 December 2016TRIBUTE
by Vijay Kumar
The death of Fidel Castro has marked the end of an iconic revolutionary phase of the post-Second World War era. Fidel Castro was a hero of generations of students of history and politics, especially for students in DU and (...) -
Triple talaaq is neither constitutional nor a Quranic form of divorce
26 December 2016by Irfan Engineer
The observations of the Allahbad High Court on December 8 stating that the Muslim personal law on triple talaaq didn’t give unbridled authority to a Muslim male to unilaterally divorce his wife would be welcomed by Muslim women (...) -
Governance, Resources and Livelihoods of Adivasis in India
26 December 2016, by C.H. Hanumantha RaoThe following is the author’s valedictory address at the National Seminar on ‘Governance, Resouruces and Livelihoods of Advasis in India: Implementation of PESA and FRA’, organised by the S.R. Sankaran Chair at the National Institute of Rural (...) -
Historical Materialism and a Relook at the “Tribal Question” in India
26 December 2016by Murzban Jal
The overthrow of mother right was the world-historic defeat of the female sex. The man seized the reigns of the house also; the woman was degraded, enthralled, the slave of the man’s lust, a mere instrument for breeding children. (...) -
Oraon Plantation Labour Agitation in the Duars: Remembrance of a centenary
26 December 2016by Tapan Bandyopadhyay
“Gajio Me Boo Rahegi Jab Tak Iman Ki/Tab To London Tak Chalegi Teg Hindustan Ki.” — Bahadur Shah Jafar, the last Mughal Emperor of India, refusing to ask for clemency and mercy
Historians and chroniclers of all hues have (...) -
Imperative Need to Protect and Promote Self-Reliance in S&T Today
26 December 2016, by Ashok ParthasarathiThe following is the speech by Prof Ashok Parthasarathi after accepting a volume of Festschrift (collection of writings in his honour) from the Vice-President, M. Hamid Ansari, at a function in New Delhi on November 15, 2016.
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A memorable chapter neglected in history: Ambedkar’s Odyssey to the Constituent Assembly of India through Bengal
26 December 2016, by A K Biswas“Turn in any direction you like, caste is the monster that crosses your path. You cannot have political reform; you cannot have economic reforms unless you kill the monster.” — Dr B.R. Ambedkar,
Annihilation of Caste
The public parade of (...)