by Murzban Jal
The imposing tower of misery which today rests on the heart of India has its sole foundation in the absence of education. —Rabindranath Tagore.
For the last year-and-a-half after the JNU incident, many reflections on the (...)
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Ransoming Educational Institutions: Remembering J.P. Naik’s Idea of “Educational Revolution”
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After Twentyfive Years
10 December 2017EDITORIAL
We have observed yesterday the twentyfifth anniversary of the Babri Masjid demolition, an incident in post-independence India that—like the assassi-nation of Mahatma Gandhi in 1948 and the Gujarat genocide of 2002—was not only a blot on (...) -
BJP Routed in UP Urban Local Bodies’ Elections
10 December 2017, by Sandeep PandeyOn December 2, 2017 most newspapers flashed a front-page story that the Bharatiya Janata Party had swept the urban local bodies’ elections. Pictures of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath offering sweets to one of his Deputy CMs or the State BJP (...) -
Judges Must Cross Lakshman Rekha
10 December 2017, by T J S GeorgeIMPRESSIONS
Jawaharlal Nehru showed the judiciary its place when he said in the Constituent Assembly in 1949: “No Supreme Court can make itself a third chamber. No Supreme Court and no judiciary can stand in judgment over the sovereign will of (...) -
Way to Socialism through Socialist Unity
10 December 2017by Prem Singh
This comment is about the situation that has arisen after the split in the Janata Dal (United). The comment is made by me as a citizen with a socialist background, and not as a member of the Socialist Party (India). The National (...) -
Sporting Moustache represents the New Format of Dalit Politics
10 December 2017by Arun Srivastava
In three separate violent incident at least three Dalit youths were recently thrashed in the Gujarat villages by the Rajputs for “sporting moustache”. Humiliating and thrashing Dalit youths in Gujarat for sporting moustache by (...) -
Human Rights: Basic Issues
10 December 2017, by Nikhil ChakravarttyFrom N.C.’s Writings
Human Rights Day is observed on December 10 every year commemorating the day, in 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. To mark the occasion we are reproducing the (...) -
Not Sorrow but Atonement
10 December 2017The following piece, which was published as ‘Political Notebook’ in Mainstream (December 12, 1992), is being reproduced on the twentyfifth anniversary of the demolition of the Babri Masjid. Its significance is heightened due to the ongoing (...) -
Mandir and Masjid can Co-exist
10 December 2017, by Kuldip NayarOn December 6, the demolition of the Babri Masjid would be 25 years old. Instead of making amends for what the Congress Government did in 1992 with the connivance of the then Prime Minister, P.V. Narasimha Rao, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (...) -
A Long Road Ahead
10 December 2017by Prabira Sethy and Rakesh Kumar
Introduction
India has been pitching for a permanent seat since 24 years in the expanded membership of the United Nations Security Council arguing that the existing body does not truly reflect the contem-porary (...)