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• Karnad: One Man who was Many Men

  23 June, by T J S George
  IMPRESSIONS
  Many things will be said, and more remembered in silent wonderment, about Girish Karnad who appeared as one person but was in fact a congregation of identities—actor, playwright, director, essayist and, never forget, Urban Naxal. He  (...)

• Militarisation of Siachen: An Anomaly in India’s National Security Context

  23 June
  by Shrabana Barua
  Introduction
  It can be observed that some matters of national security, particularly those involving military action, gain special attention among other national issues most of the time. When a war is fought or a military  (...)
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  Media under Attack

  17 June, by SC
  EDITORIAL
  Lately, the media has become the target of assault by the executive. The cases of NOIDA-based journalist Prashant Kanojia and the editor and head of the NOIDA-based TV channel, Nation Live, are clear pointers to the manner in which the  (...)

• Verdict 2019: How Harmony Lost Out - Voices from Western UP Over the Years

  17 June
  by Vidya Subrahmaniam
  As in 2014 and 2017, so too in 2019, the Jats of Western UP overwhelmingly voted the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). This time they voted in even larger numbers even though there was a clear alternative before them in the  (...)

• It’s Time for a Non-Gandhi, but . . .

  17 June, by T J S George
  IMPRESSIONS
  In the Congress party’s most inglorious hour, Rahul Gandhi struck a note that was gutsy and resolute. It was brave of him to expose the selfishness of some of his seniormost colleagues. His resoluteness over the issue of resigning  (...)

• Letter from a Pakistani to an Indian Friend: Can we Please have a South Asian Union?

  17 June
  by Beena Sarwar
  The following is the text of a letter from Boston-based Pakistani academic and senior journalist Beena Sarwar to M.J. Vijayan, General Secretary of the India Chapter of Pakistan-India Peoples’ Forum for Peace and Democracy.
  Dear  (...)

• Contours of China Crisis

  17 June, by Nikhil Chakravartty
  FROM N.C.’S WRITINGS
  Thirty years ago, N.C. had left for China when the Tiananmen bloodbath took place on June 4, 1989. Apart from his despatches which appeared in The Times of India and Mainstream on the tragedy that befell that great country at  (...)

• Resounding Success of the BJP in Haryana

  17 June
  by Kushal Pal
  This is for the first time since Haryana was formed in 1966 that the saffron party made a clean sweep by winning all ten seats in the State. The party secured 57.93 per cent votes, almost double of the Congress’ vote-share and an  (...)

• We are Doing Fine

  17 June, by Badri Raina
  We just proved that in the end
  It is not the economy, stupid.
  Hindutva armed with war-like purpose
  Is a more potent Cupid.
  What if investment is zero now,
  And manufacture slightlessly lesser;
  So long as inspiring Hindutva icons
  Adorn the  (...)

• Modi 2.0 and the Demise of Communist Forces in Bengal

  17 June
  by Shiraz Sheikh
  In the recently concluded Indian elections the Right-wing forces led by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have recaptured power with a massive electoral mandate. The BJP won 303 seats out of the 543 seats with a 38 per cent  (...)

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