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  Weakening the Bonds

  5 November, by SC
  EDITORIAL
  Today is October 31, 2019. It is being observed as the ‘National Unity Day’ as per the decision of the Union Government to mark the 144th birth anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, the first Home Minister of independent India—a  (...)

• What does November 16 portend for Sri Lanka?

  5 November, by Apratim Mukarji
  November 16, 2019 should turn out to be a day Sri Lankans would not forget in a hurry. On that Saturday, Sri Lankans will choose their next President, opting for either the front-runner Gotabaya Rajapaksa or a no-push-over Sajith Premadasa.  (...)

• Sikh Organisations: India not a Hindu Rashtra

  5 November
  by Ram Puniyani
  The RSS ideologues and leaders regularly keep stating that India is a Hindu Rashtra. This has been most annoying for the religious minorities, particularly Muslims, Sikhs and all those believing in the Indian Constitution. This  (...)

• Gandhi’s Idea of Cleanliness and Swachcha Bharat Abhiyan

  5 November, by Sandeep Pandey
  Mahatma Gandhi’s spectacles are being used as an emblem for the Government of India’s sanitation campaign Swachha Bharat Abhiyan. Even though the Rashtriya Swayam-sevak Sangh, the ideological parent of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, abhors  (...)

• On Primary Education

  5 November, by Eduardo Faleiro
  In July 2016, the State Government constituted a Committee on Education to study the system of grants and financial support to government and government-aided primary schools and to recommend measures to improve their overall efficiency. The  (...)

• India shouldn’t lose the Afghan Plot

  5 November, by M K Bhadrakumar
  India is probably the only country to hail the “successful conduct of Presidential elections” in Afghanistan on September 28. Everyone else is holding her/his breath. Curiously, the unusually muted campaign highlighted that candidates them-selves  (...)

• Knowledge blended with Wisdom

  5 November
  by Mubashir Hasan
  The following message was sent by Dr Mubashir Hasan, a noted human rights activist and former Minister of Planning and Finance in Pakistan, on the occasion of N.C.’s birth centenary on November 3, 2013.
  Dear Sumit,
  An  (...)

• Non-Alignment, Human Rights, New: International Order, Regional Cooperation

  5 November
  by Kamal Hossain
  The following is the paper the author presented on November 5, 2013 at the last session of the two-day conference held in New Delhi in honour of N.C. on his birth centenary.
  I am privileged to have the opportunity to honour the  (...)

• Kashmir: Setting the Priorities / My Earliest Recollections

  5 November, by Nikhil Chakravartty
  From N.C.’s Writings
  In 1967, that is, fiftytwo years ago, N.C. visited the Kashmir Valley for a few days and held detailed discussions with a wide cross-section of opinion-makers and political personalities of all shades there. On his return he  (...)

• Lynching and the Ethos of Bharat

  5 November, by T J S George
  IMPRESSIONS
  Okay, so lynching is phoren. “It never happened in Bharat,” said Mohan Bhagwat, well-informed on such matters. ”It is not a word from the Indian ethos.” He then moved on to a different kind of assertion. “It is a Western plot to defame  (...)

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