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  Welcome Move in Korean Peninsula

  18 June, by SC
  EDITORIAL
  How do we assess the Donald Trump-Kim Jong-un summit talks at Singapore? Regardless of what the cynics have said or written—and there are many such cynics beyond those who have articulated their views within the country and beyond—the  (...)

• Losses that Cannot be Filled

  18 June
  COMMENTARY
  As we go to press news has just arrived from Srinagar that noted professional journalist Syed Shujaat Bukhari is no more. He was gunned down near his office (he was earlier the correspondent of The Hindu, and subsequently was editing  (...)

• Would RSS accept Pranabda’s Inclusive Indian Nationalism?

  18 June
  by Ram Puniyani
  Dialogue is the core part of the democratic process. The question that comes up is: can there be dialogue between two opposite ideologies on the Indian horizon, the one of Indian nationalism and the other of Hindu nationalism? We  (...)

• Russian Leader’s Question-Answer Session: Putin Emerging Longest Serving President of Russia — Challenges Persist

  18 June
  by R.G. Gidadhubli
  Vladimir Putin was elected as the President of Russia with overwhelming majority for the fourth time for a six-year term ending in 2024. Exactly one month after he was sworn in following a landslide election, to express his  (...)

• Bhindranwale Still Lives

  18 June, by Kuldip Nayar
  Indian history is replete with tragedies which, when retold, suggest that the happenings could have been avoided. ‘Operation Bluestar’ is one of them. Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, a militant, holed himself up at the Akal Takht, the highest Sikh  (...)

• Mewat Region, Raj Kishore, Ankit Saxena’s Family

  18 June, by Humra Quraishi
  MUSINGS
  This morning as I was going through the day’s newspapers what caught attention was this shocking incident coming from Haryana’s Mewat region, where a young woman was buried neck deep, in a five feet deep pit, by a village witch doctor to  (...)

• India, Nepal and the Janakpur Momentum

  18 June
  by Bhartendu Kumar Singh
  Everyday, buses full of pilgrims and tourists get stranded near Bhitta Mor, the noisy and chaotic gateway to Janakpur on the Indo-Nepal border in Bihar. Bhitta Mor is a dingy place with muddy roads (under water during  (...)

• We Must All Resist BJP’s Two-Nation Theory

  18 June, by Nikhil Chakravartty
  From N.C.’s Writings
  Ayodhya has become the epicentre of a cyclone that threatens to spell disaster for the political fabric of this country. For the fourth year now, it has virtually taken over the centre-stage of national politics.
  What has  (...)

• Intra-Tribal Disparities in Asset-acquisition in Kerala’s Wayanad District

  18 June
  by Raimol Pappachan and P. Stanly Joseph
  The tribal populations are the aboriginal inhabitants of our country and are found in all parts of India. They have been living a simple life based on the natural environment and have adopted a cultural  (...)

• Considering Cess on Liquor to Get Funds for Cow-Protection!

  18 June, by Bharat Dogra
  COMMENTARY
  Recent news reports have drawn attention to the most absurd proposal being seriously considered by the Rajasthan Government that a cess will be imposed on liquor sales and this cess will be used for cow-protection work. This amounts  (...)

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