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• Statesmanship: Need of the Hour

  17 February, by SC
  EDITORIAL
  What happened today in Kashmir has once again brought back the issue of India-Pakistan confrontation on Kashmir to the forefront. The sheer magnitude of the terror strike in Avantipora in the Pulwama district, about 20 kilometres south  (...)

• The Bangladeshisation of Indian Politics

  17 February
  by Partha S. Ghosh
  Now that India’s secularism is degenerating into one of competitive Hindutva, it is being seen as the Pakistanisation of Indian politics.
  Even the liberal fringe of Pakistan, ever unhappy with all that has been happening in  (...)

• The games that Sri Lankans play

  17 February, by Apratim Mukarji
  If there is one issue on which almost every Sinhalese would agree, it is the incompatibility of federalism in Sri Lanka. Yet, their government has introduced a draft Constitution to replace the traditional executive presidency system with a  (...)

• Appropriating an Icon: RSS Celebrates Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose’s Birthday

  17 February
  by Ram Puniyani
  On this January 23, the BJP-RSS organised various programmes to honour Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose. In one of these programmes, a clash took place leading to a curfew in Kendrapada, Odisha. In different meetings organised by the  (...)

• George Fernandes — A Lifelong Rebel and Coalition-builder

  17 February
  TRIBUTE
  by Shambhu Shrivastava
  The best tribute to George Fernandes would be to acknowledge the fact that nobody, just nobody ever treated him as a Christian. He was always treated as a front-ranking leader of post-independence India. He was a  (...)

• Spectacular CBI Move in Kolkata: Reading the Social Text

  17 February
  by Arup Kumar Sen
  An unparalleled political confrontation between the Centre and State of West Bengal took place in Kolkata on February 3, 2019, over an attempted questioning of the city’s Police Commissioner, Rajeev Kumar, by CBI officials in  (...)

• Living in the Past

  17 February, by M K Bhadrakumar
  In an article on March 15, 2003, as storm clouds were gathering for the American invasion of Iraq, one of India’s best-known editors chastised our “entirely ignorant and non-serious politicians and public opinion” not to introduce “new stresses on  (...)

• Understanding Socio-political Assertion of Muslims in India Today

  17 February
  by Shamsher Alam
  As far as Indian democracy is concerned, Muslims are one of the important parts of the same. They are a decisive factor of Indian democracy. However, when it comes to map and comprehend their socio-political cons-ciousness and  (...)

• Illusionary Directionless Populist Interim Budget

  17 February
  by D.M. Diwakar
  The Union Budget is presented under the provision of “The Procedures of Financial Matters” in Articles 112 to 118 of the Constitution of India (GoI, 2015: 54-59), an intended financial proposal of the Union Government about its  (...)

• Narendra Modi is the Actual Accidental PM

  17 February, by Sandeep Pandey
  Anupam Kher’s film Accidental Prime Minister has targeted Dr Manmohan Singh who served for two terms and may be again acceptable for the job if his party regains power. But his tormentor, Narendra Modi, seems to be out of breath even before his  (...)

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