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  Battle-lines Drawn: Save the Country

  11 August, by SC
  EDITORIAL
  The battle-lines have clearly being drawn by now. Since the BJP leadership’s surreptitious manner of changing the Constitution—by revoking Articles 370 and 35A—with the country’s President signing the order to that effect and the ruling  (...)

• Stab in the Back: Kashmir Valley Finale

  11 August
  by Mustafa Khan
  PM Narendra Modi and his group were willing to wound but afraid to strike. That period has ultimately transpired. They have gored into the life-blood that was circulating in Kashmir and had kept it alive for so long. Not any  (...)

• Threat from Nuclear Weapons is Increasing

  11 August, by Bharat Dogra
  HIROSHIMA DAY (AUGUST 6) SPECIAL ARTICLE
  Nuclear weapons have been with us for 74 years. The potential of nuclear weapons to cause catastrophic damage and pose an existential threat to all forms of life is so high that the world should have got  (...)

• Report of Indian Muslims for Democracy Meeting

  11 August
  by Irfan Engineer
  A meeting of prominent citizens, professionals and intellectuals from the Muslim community along with some non-Muslim intellectuals under the platform of “Indian Muslims for Democracy” took place at the Centre for the Study of  (...)

• Call to Build Unity to Resist Fascist Onslaught

  11 August, by Barun Das Gupta
  The CPI-ML (Liberation) recently observed the 50th anniversary of its foundation and the birth centenary of the party’s founder, Charu Mazumdar, in Kolkata. A mass convention was held at the Netaji Indoor Stadium on July 30 while a two-day  (...)

• Countering BJP

  11 August
  by D.K. Giri
  The ruling BJP won a massive victory, beyond expectation of the Opposition as well as the BJP. The latter did not expect such a bumper number of seats. A good many people, mainly in the non-NDA tent, are still pondering over the  (...)

• The Socrates

  11 August, by Badri Raina
  Dear mentor, these days I think
  No end of your time in Athens.
  We have the same little men today
  Whose little brief authority spins
  Self-evident truths into “treacherous” acts,
  Letting loose the minions of state
  On those whose angst on behalf of  (...)

• Jaipal Reddy — A True Liberal

  11 August, by Neerja Chowdhury
  TRIBUTE
  “There is only one portfolio I am certain I have the right person for,” I.K. Gujral had remarked to a friend, hours before he took over as the Prime Minister in mid-1997. “It is the Information and Broadcasting Ministry for Jaipal Reddy.”  (...)

• Whither Secularism: Democratic Society and Minority Rights

  11 August
  by Ram Puniyani
  We are living in times where the social norms, the values of the Constitution have been violated times and over again. The increasing atrocities on Dalits, the lynchings of minorities in the name of cow-beef have changed the  (...)

• Bedis in Kashmir

  11 August, by Humra Quraishi
  MUSINGS
  Though the situation in Kashmir seems deteriorating but till date there is no clear indication of this Right-wing government’s policy towards Kashmir. Yes, no signs of discussions and dialogues with the Kashmiris. Also, the point is: who  (...)

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