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June 28, 2008
On N.C.’s 10th Death Anniversary (June 27, 2008)
K.R. NARAYANAN:
Nikhilda—A Glorious Human Being
Reminiscences
by V.R. KRISHNA IYER, MRINALINI SARABHAI, P.B. SAWANT, ARUN BOSE, D. BANDYOPADHYAY, SOM BENEGAL, S. VISWAM, T.J.S. GEORGE, SURENDRA MOHAN, MRINAL PANDE, SYEDA HAMEED, NEERJA CHOWDHURY, SUHAS BORKER
GIRISH MISHRA
Rural Loan Waiver or Moral Hazard?
ASH NARAIN ROY
US’ Violation of Human Rights in Afghanistan
EDITORIAL
Sonia Gandhi has to take the Political Call
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Nikhilda through the Mists of Memory
30 June 2008, by Mrinal Pande
If one wanted to find an iconic journalist whose work straddled both the colonial period and the post-independence India, the first inspired by the spirit of Gandhian thought and the latter influenced by the many avatars of Nehruvian
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Nikhil at the Gates
30 June 2008, by Syeda Hameed
These times when life’s mad rush
Overtakes our days, inverts our rights
Your memory places a soothing palm
On my fevered brow.
I recall
You walking slowly
To light a candle at the last post
Separating India from Pakistan.
I recall
You watching
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Nikhil Chakravartty
30 June 2008, by Neerja Chowdhury
For several of us doing political reporting in the eighties and the nineties, one of the things we looked forward to were the political discussions we could have with people like Nikhil Chakravartty and Madhu Limaye. Both kept open houses and we
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A Media Legend of India’s Underbelly
30 June 2008, by Suhas Borker
Last week it was suddenly discovered that the portrait of Nikhil Chakravartty was missing from the Press Council of India’s Conference Hall where President K.R. Narayanan had unveiled it on February 28, 1999. It had been missing since mid-2003.
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US’ Violation of Human Rights in Afghanistan
30 June 2008, by Ash Narain Roy
Afghanistan has endured a quarter century of brutal wars during which human rights have been violated systematically by the occupying forces, the various regimes in power and the insurgent groups. The “war on terror” unleashed by the US promised a
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Emergency: What it meant
30 June 2008, by Amiya Rao,
B G Rao
[(Lest We Forget
Thirtythree years ago on June 26, 1975, Emergency was proclaimed throughout the country as the ruling leadership bared its fangs nakedly displaying its dictatorial proclivities. We present here write-ups and poems that bring
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Tagore for Today
30 June 2008, by Nikhil Chakravartty
[(The Editor’s Notebook in Mainstream (June 28, 1975) after the promulgation of Emergency and the imposition of press censorship appeared as follows:)]
Somewhere in the excitement of National Emergency, the editor has lost his notebook. However,
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