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  Ideological Struggle in Presidential Poll

  24 June, by SC
  EDITORIAL
  As we go to press, it has become clear that the country will face yet another presidential election next month. The Opposition parties, as many as 17 of them, decided today to put up, by rare consensus, a Dalit candidate of eminence,  (...)

• GJM Revives Separate Gorkhaland Demand—Darjeeling Burns Again

  24 June, by Barun Das Gupta
  The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) has suddenly revived the demand for a separate Gorkhaland and the Darjeeling hills are witnessing widespread violence. GJM supporters have repeatedly clashed with the police, burnt police and government vehicles  (...)

• Open Letter by Retired Officials on the Growing Climate of Religious Intolerance

  24 June
  The following is an open letter of sixtyfive retired officials released on June 12, 2017.
  We are a group of retired officers of All India and Central services of different batches, who have worked with the Central and State governments in the  (...)

• Criterion for Presidents

  24 June, by Kuldip Nayar
  The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) cannot hide its anti-Muslim fangs. Instead of building con-sensus behind the candidature of Hamid Ansari for presidentship, the party has appointed its top three leaders to find a candidate who commands the  (...)

• Yechury’s Letter to PM on Farmers’ Plight

  24 June, by Sitaram Yechury
  Dear Pradhan Mantri Ji,
  I am writing this letter to draw your attention to the plight of farmers across India, which has resulted in a high level of rural distress, including thousands of suicides by farmers in the past three years. There have  (...)

• Sudhakar’s Letter to Modi on Agrarian Crisis

  24 June, by Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy
  Dear Shri Narendra Modiji,
  Sub: Unprecedented Agrarian Crisis—Request for urgent special session of Parliament
  This is to bring to your attention that the country is facing an unprecedented agrarian crisis. There was famine and drought in some  (...)

• Resentment Growing over False Charges against Nikhil Dey and Other RTI Activists

  24 June, by Bharat Dogra
  Resentment is growing in Rajasthan and at the national level against some of the most senior, distinguished, selfless social activists being given a prison sentence in a 20-year-old case. The case relates to one of those struggles of Right to  (...)

• Tibet Question: A Dragon-hold and a Stifling US Agenda

  24 June
  by Pradeep Nair and Sandeep Sharma
  The United States’ ‘Tibetan Policy Act of 2002’, clearly states that ‘the US would support the aspirations of Tibetan people in order to safeguard their distinct identity’. Other provisions which follow speak  (...)

• Emergency: What it meant / Tagore for Today/ An Eye-witness Account

  24 June
  Lest We Forget 
  Fortytwo years ago on June 26, 1975, the 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  (...)

• V.P. Singh was meant to be a Dreamer, a Poet, an Artist; bad luck he ended up as PM

  24 June, by T J S George
  IMPRESSIONS
  In the political universe of India V.P. Singh rose as high as a citizen could—MLA, Chief Minister, Union Finance Minister, Defence Minister, Prime Minister, father of coalition politics. For all that, he was seen as a “failure” because  (...)

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