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Pressure Counter Pressure
Behind the angry protests and almost interminable complaints of Cease Fire violations, there is a feeling in New Delhi about the overall situation with regard to Pakistan which, though not vocal, is (...)
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Pressure Counter Pressure / The Twilight Hour
9 October 2016, by Nikhil Chakravartty -
Paradise Lost
9 October 2016, by Badri RainaIs this now a paradise lost To an ancient contention? A clanging of frozen wills Where all is lost and nothing won? Relentless crones in safe enclaves Send nubile angels to war Against an uncaring distant state That seems light years a (...) -
Congress must set its House in Order
9 October 2016Can the Congress Party be retrieved? This was the question posed to me. Another one is: whether or not the party is relevant. Answering the last question first, I said that a 150-year-old organisation, which has loyal members even in the (...) -
Gwadar and Chabahar: Rushing to the oil-and-trade precipice
9 October 2016, by S G VombatkerePrime Minister Modi’s bringing up “Balochistan” during his August 15 address was criticised, especially since he omitted to mention the ongoing, acute crisis in Kashmir. While the validity of the criticism of omission may hold good, mentioning (...) -
Re-reading Bengal Renaissance
9 October 2016, by Arup Kumar SenThis year is the birth centenary year of Benoy Ghosh, who is a pioneer in writing and documenting the social and cultural history of Bengal. He got attracted to Marxism in his student days. After his graduation in 1937, he started working as a (...) -
On Brics Summit
9 October 2016, by Eduardo FaleiroThe Eighth Summit meeting of BRICS will be held in Goa on October 15 and 16. The heads of state and government of the five member-countries will participate in the meeting. India has also invited the heads of state and government of BIMSTEC for (...) -
Philogagging, Hermeneutics and International Politics
9 October 2016by Ashfaq Maqsood Ali
Immanuel Kant, the eighteenth century philosopher and an idealist, while arguing that only pure reason can lead to truth, excluded almost everything derivable from sensation and experience. For him, things do not present (...) -
Why Unrest Never Dies In Kashmir?
9 October 2016by Fayezah Iqbal
In the once serene and bewitchingly beautiful Kashmir Valley, unrest and wild turbulence has spelt unimaginable horror in the lives of the people. A colossal deal of irreversible damage and destruction to the lives, property and (...) -
Farmers made Homeless and Landless by River Erosion still Waiting for Relief and Rehabilitation
9 October 2016COMMUNICATION
Imagine a farmer family leading a secure life based on its fertile fields suddenly becoming not just landless but also homeless in the span of a few hours. This has been the tragic and traumatic experience of thousands of rural (...) -
‘Surgical Strikes’ and After
3 October 2016POLITICAL NOTEBOOK
The ‘surgical strikes’ by the Indian Army in the wee hours of today at seven places in the PoK where infiltrators had assembled to cross the LoC and infil-trate into India for carrying out terror attacks, was executed with (...)
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