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• The Vajpayee Legacy

  15 October, by Ashok Parthasarathi
  At a recent meeting in Delhi a group of journalists, academics, former diplomats discussed the legacy of that great public figure and national leader, Atal Behari Vajpeyee. It was agreed that Vajpayee was a remarkable man of many parts—scholar,  (...)

• ISSSP receives M.L. Sondhi Prize

  15 October
  The 2017 Prof M.L. Sondhi Prize for Inter-national Politics was awarded to the Inter-national Strategic and Security Studies (ISSSP), Bengaluru, and was received by its Director, Prof. Rajaram Nagappa at New Delhi’s India International Centre on  (...)

• Allround Decadence and Ray of Hope

  15 October, by Nikhil Chakravartty
  From N.C.’s Writings
  While there is no doubt a lot on which to attack those in authority for their dereliction in running an orderly system of governance, one has to ask at the same time why there has been such an appalling deterioration in  (...)

• Next Generation Rights to LGBT Communities

  15 October
  by G.K. Goswami and Aditi Goswami
  Introduction
  The recent decriminalising of homosexuality by the Supreme Court of India is a milestone on the bumpy road to recognise and strengthen the rights of Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals and Transgenders  (...)
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  Rhetoric and Reality

  7 October, by SC
  EDITORIAL
  Mahatma Gandhi’s 149th birth anniversary was observed this week on October 2, 2018. That was the day when the country decided to launch the year- long celebrations marking Gandhiji’s 150th birth anniversary. [Of course, with the people  (...)

• Is Cleanliness Gandhi’s Greatest Contribution to Nation-Building?

  7 October, by Devaki Jain
  It has been distressing for me to notice how the entire space for celebrating Gandhi’s 150th birth anniversary by the Government of India has been focusing on toilets: public defecation-free India. In the process of shifting public attention,  (...)

• The Judicial Archer

  7 October, by S G Vombatkere
  In a Mahabharata tale, Dronacharya—who taught the skills of warfare to the Pandava and Kaurava princes—overheard Duryodhana saying that he unjustly favoured Arjuna over others. To prove him wrong, Dronacharya decided to test his pupils, by placing  (...)

• India and the Neighbourhood: New Delhi’s Faltering Diplomacy

  7 October
  by Purusottam Bhattacharya
  New Delhi finds itself on a sticky wicket at the moment so far as its neighbourhood policy is concerned. (Neighbourhood for the purpose of this article denotes India’s immediate and smaller South Asian neighbours  (...)

• Indian Muslims: Differing Views

  7 October, by T J S George
  IMPRESSIONS
  It is the irony of ironies that (a) the Government of India banned triple talaq without getting a proper Bill properly passed in Parliament, and (b) Muslims attacked the “reform”, saying that it will not help Muslim women. Who said  (...)

• World Economy — A Decade after the Financial Crisis

  7 October
  by V. Mathew Kurian
  I. Introduction
  In 2008, America confronted a financial crisis which later spread to other parts of the world making it a global financial crisis. The financial meltdown as a contagion affected adversely the functioning of  (...)

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