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On the Cobblestones of Freedom
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Bogey of Sedition and Curbing Secular Forces
9 March 2016by Arun Srivastava
Nationalism has been the most misused manoeuvre by the ruling establishment in India to bully the political opponents and throttle the peoples’ protest and saner voice. We have seen how this was misused in the past by the (...) -
Role of Karachi in the 1946 Naval Rebellion
9 March 2016by Aslam Khwaja
The following is a paper presented by the author at an international conference on Karachi at Karachi in November 2015. February 2016 marked the seventieth anniversary of the Royal India Navy’s Mutiny.
The Royal Indian Navy’s (...) -
Formation of the Indian Nation-State and the Future of North-East
9 March 2016, by J.J. Roy BurmanPerception about India of Intellectuals and the Colonial Legacy
Almost all the Indian historians and scholars like D.D. Kosambi, Amartya Sen, Sudipto Kaviraj wrote about the idea of India in terms of an ancient civilisation or a political (...) -
Drawing the Battle-lines
28 February 2016POLITICAL NOTEBOOK
The debate in Parliament on Rohith Vemula’s suicide and the subsequent incidents in the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) has brought out in sharp relief the respective positions of the saffron camp and the entire Opposition (...) -
PM Modi fears Conspiracies against Him
28 February 2016, by M K BhadrakumarThe following article was written just before the Budget session of Parliament that began on February 23, 2016.
There is no conceivable reason why a government which commands the support of 282 lawmakers in the 543-member Indian parliament (...) -
JNU Crackdown: Politics of Paranoia around Sedition can Singe Rajnath
28 February 2016by Bharat Bhushan
The primary casualty of the fiasco at the Capital’s Jawaharlal Nehru University and the paranoid politics being promoted in the country is not likely to be the JNU Students’ Union President, Kanhaiya Kumar, who faces fictitious (...) -
Beating of Kanhaiya Kumar in Court brings back Memories of Babri Masjid Demolition
28 February 2016, by Sandeep PandeyThe manner in which Jawaharal Nehru University Students’ Union President Kanhaiya Kumar was roughed up in the Patiala House Court premises, while being brought to be produced in the court room, in the presence of observers from the Supreme Court (...) -
The Ugly Face of ‘Hindu’ Nationalism
28 February 2016by Arup Kumar Sen
The recent arrest of the JNU Students’ Union President, Kanhaiya Kumar, on the charge of sedition, thrashing him by a section of “lawyers” in the court premises on his way to the hearing, and physical assault on the students, (...) -
JNU: What is at Stake?
28 February 2016by Shruti Jain
A mother, also a student of the JNU, was carrying her daughter on her back, straining to listen to a teacher over thousands of other students and teachers gathered on Saturday evening at the JNU administrative block. She had to (...)
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