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• The Changing Alignments

  23 September, by Nikhil Chakravartty
  From N.C.’s Writings
  The prospect of a new configuration inside the Janata Pary has been advanced by the dramatic developments in UP. It is not just a change of incumbent for the post of Chief Minister that took place with Banarsi Das taking  (...)

• In the Courtyard of Modi’s New India

  23 September
  by Arun Srivastava
  We are at a time when ideas sale, ideas are used especially for the mobile and hi tech life-style. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a perfect businessman, has been in the business of selling ideas since 2014. During the  (...)

• Assembly Elections: The Congress is not doing as badly as it seems, shows data

  23 September
  In various Assembly elections since its defeat in the 2014 general elections, the Congress has actually improved its strike-rate in terms of number of seats won as against the seats contested, although it has contested fewer seats. Not only  (...)

• Eminent Economists’ Views help in Understanding Demonetisation

  23 September, by Bharat Dogra
  COMMUNICATION
  Many thanks to Mainstream and to Prof Arun Kumar for increasing our understanding of demonetisation-related issues with such clarity. Prof Arun Kumar is, on the one hand, an eminent economist and also a top expert on black money.  (...)

• Genocide of Rohingyas in Myanmar: the Hindutva Imprints

  23 September, by Shamsul Islam
  Currently, one of the worst post-World War II genocides is underway in India’s neighbour-hood. In the Rakhine province of Myanmar (Burma), cleansing of people belonging to the Rohingya tribe (mostly Muslims and a few Hindus and Buddhists) has  (...)

• Is India Run by Dynasty?

  23 September, by Kuldip Nayar
  Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi is wrong when he says that all of India runs on dynasties. Ruling means wielding power at the Centre. Only Jawaharlal Nehru’s family has had the opportunity to do so. Nehru ruled for 17 years, his daughter  (...)

• Injuring Mother Narmada

  23 September, by Devaki Jain
  The rhetoric says that the dream of dear Mother Narmada, of flowing from Madhya Pradesh into Gujarat and irrigating lakhs of hectares, has now been fulfilled with the raising of the Sardar Sarovar Dam to 136 metres and its opening. What a  (...)

• The Nero Syndrome

  23 September, by Sudhir Vombatkere
  Prime Minister Modi chose to celebrate his birthday, September 17th, by inaugurating the Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP). There were several letters written to him, informing him in case he did not know, or reminding him in case he did know and had  (...)

• Looking for a model Military Industrial Complex (MIC)

  23 September
  by Bhartendu Kumar Singh
  Military power, along with economic power, constitute the great power edifice in contem-porary international relations. Yet, India’s attempts to consolidate its great power status is stymied by a sick and sterile  (...)

• The ‘Madam’ as Defence Minister

  23 September
  WOMEN’S WORLD
  by Garima Mani Tripathi
  “Men define women not as ‘herself’ but relative to them,” wrote Simone De Beauvoir in The Second Sex (1949). While Ms Nirmala Sitharaman’s appointment as the first (full-time) woman Defence Minister is a  (...)

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