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The recent announcement of a 4.5 per cent sub-quota for backward sections within minorities in the overall Central OBC quota by the UPA Government on December 22, 2011 in the wake of elections in five States, including the crucial State of (...)
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Analysing the ‘OBC-Minority’ Sub-Quota
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Saramago’s Candid Comments
27 February 2012, by Girish MishraIt is quite often said in India that a person loses his enthusiasm and vigour and the capacity to struggle against odds and acts of injustice as he becomes older. This, however, never applied to the Portuguese literary giant, Jose Saramago. Born (...) -
Russia Muscles Up: Challenges We Must Rise To Face
27 February 2012by VLADIMIR PUTIN
(On March 4 the presidential election is to take place in Russia. PM Vladimir Putin is again in the fray as he wants to become the President once more. The alleged rigging by the authorities in the recent Russian parliamentary (...) -
Indira Gandhi’s Priorities
27 February 2012, by Nikhil ChakravarttyFROM N.C.’S WRITINGS
A touch of shameless audacity marks the character of politicians when they are sustained by hardly any sense of responsibility towards the people whom they are supposed to represent. Democracy has certainly its moments of (...) -
On Taslima, Infant Mortality, Farmers’ Suicides
27 February 2012, by Amitava MukherjeeWEST BENGAL NOTEBOOK
Even the worst critics of Mamata Banerjee will admit that the West Bengal Chief Minister has street wisdom. This became evident recently over the release of Taslima Nasreen’s latest book in the just concluded Kolkata Book (...) -
Choice before South Block
19 February 2012, by SCWhile the UP election scene has hotted up with AICC General Secretary Rahul Gandhi publicly tearing a piece of paper purported to be a list of promises made by the BSP and SP before the State’s electorate, and SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav (...) -
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19 February 2012[(February 21 is the International Mother Tongue Day as declared by the United Nations in recognition of the martyrs of the language movement who fell to the Pakistani police’s bullets on that day in 1952 in Dhaka while demanding that their (...) -
Open Letter to the President, PM, Ministers
19 February 2012, by S G VombatkereURGENT APPEAL TO UPHOLD THE CONSTITUTION, DEFEND HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS, FREE SONI SORI AND LINGARAM KODOPI
Respected President, Prime Minister and Ministers,
Every year on January 26, we celebrate the Constitution of India.1 Every January 30, (...) -
An Agenda for Afghan Peace Talks
19 February 2012, by M K BhadrakumarI first met the Hazara leader, Mohammad Mohaqiq, in 1997 while serving in Tashkent. He sent word through an intermediary seeking a meeting. Mohaqiq journeyed across the Amu Darya and came over to the ambassador’s residence in Tashkent and we (...) -
Political Empowerment of Telangana
19 February 2012, by C.H. Hanumantha RaoKEY LESSON FROM ENCOURAGING PERFORMANCE OF SMALLER STATES
1. Introduction
Achieving economic growth with social justice has always been the foremost objective of economic planning in India since independence. Although the achievements in this (...)
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