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Why arrest only the foot soldiers, when the actual masterminds sit untouched. The Hindutva rulers who insist on heaping provocative, threatening, communal, gutter-abusive taunts! They are part and parcel of the political machinery!
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Anti-Muslim Tirade: Foot Soldiers and Masterminds
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Pushing the Country Towards a Civil War
9 February 2020POLITICAL NOTEBOOK
Sometimes it becomes necessary to call a spade a spade, shorn of euphemism. The BJP is pushing the country to a civil war. For the first time since independence the country has seen such provocative and vituperative communal (...) -
Union Budget 2020-21: Figuring out its Politics and Economics
9 February 2020, by Arun KumarThe Union Budget has two goals. First, to tackle the current problems plaguing the economy which may be a continuing one or one that has cropped up in the year in which the Budget is drafted. The second goal of a Budget is to try to fulfill the (...) -
Economic Survey 2019-20: Fictitious Narratives and Ignored Reality
9 February 2020by Saumen Chattopadhyay
The Economic Survey 2019-20 (ES) which was tabled in Parliament the day before the Union Budget for 2020-21 was presented on February 1, was supposed to take stock of the Indian economy and give a vision for the future (...) -
Sri Lanka: Gotabaya plunges into true Gotabayaism
9 February 2020, by Apratim Mukarji“Gota’s Goons” is now a popular phrase in Sri Lanka. This is not surprising, because Sri Lanka’s newly elected President, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, does not believe in wasting time to get into action.
Let us talk about a recent manifestation of this (...) -
Nothing Really to Celebrate in the New Year
9 February 2020, by Humra QuraishiMUSINGS
Nothing really to celebrate this new year start, as eerie build-ups overtake, as divisive tactics together with marked-targeted-killings take place. Signs of another round of partitioning out there. It’s about time to get out all (...) -
My Vision of India 2047 AD
9 February 2020by Shyam Menon
The following is the text of the 21st D.S. Borker Memorial Lecture held at IIC, New Delhi on August 24, 2019.
Professor Ashis Nandy, Professor Aseem Prakash, Mr Suhas Borker, the Trustees of the D.S. Borker Memorial Foundation, (...) -
Dogs of War
9 February 2020, by Badri RainaThe women plant themselves, waving
The Flag, flaunting
The Preamble.
In their settled do-or-die,
They seem one with the earth they occupy.
The chill, the calumny, nor inducement
Dent the steel of their immovable intent.
Their sentient innocence (...) -
Victory of Opposition Alliance in Jharkhand Assembly Elections
9 February 2020by Prannv Dhawan and Ishaan Bansal
The results of the Jharkhand State Assembly elections represent a comprehensive electoral setback for the ruling political establishment. This setback is a major one not just because it is the first absolute (...) -
Hinduism Respects Diversity
9 February 2020by Sharad Rajimwale
When we notice that an attempt is being made these days by certain dour, orthodox forces, imagining themselves in the role of the exclusive voice of Hindu culture and religion, to enforce a uniform, homogenizing (...)
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