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Great military commanders have an aura unattainable by others. The last World War threw up a clutch of names that still reverberate in the halls of history—Patton, Montgomery, Rommel (The Desert Fox), Eisenhower, MacArthur, even Tojo, (...)
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The General who Won Classic Victories with Barefoot Soldiers and Bicycles
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Mounting Concern
14 October 2013, by SCEDITORIAL
The situation in Andhra has considerably worsened in the last few days. The indefinite strike by the Seemandhra electricity workers protesting against the bifurcation of the State and emergence of the separate State of Telangana (...) -
Vo Nguyen Giap: ‘General of Peace’
14 October 2013, by Sumit Chakravartty[(TRIBUTE
General Vo Nguyen Giap is no more. He died in an Army hospital in Hanoi on October 5, 2013 at the age of 102, according to Tuoi Tre Online. The New York Times described him as the “relentless and charismatic North Vietnamese General (...) -
Effective Act against Communal and Targeted Violence Need of the Hour Dr John Dayal’s Statement at National Integration Council
14 October 2013The following is the written statement delivered by Dr John Dayal, the Secretary-General of the All India Christian Council, at the National Integration Council meeting held in New Delhi on September 23, 2013.
Honourable Prime Minister, (...) -
Letter from Germany: Merkel Short of Absolute Majority, Reaches Out to Leftist Rivals
14 October 2013by Arani Basu
The outcome of the Bundestag Election 2013 has hardly come as a surprise. Deutschland wanted Angela Merkel to continue as the head of the country and the results are just a mere reflection of it. However, the USP of CDU’s success (...) -
Manmohan, Chidambaram Responsible for 2G Scam: Gurudas Dasgupta
14 October 2013by Kuldip Singh Arora
Armed with facts and documents, member of the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on 2G spectrum Gurudas Dasgupta on September 28, 2013 dissented with the Committee’s draft report, which gave a clean-chit to Prime Minister (...) -
There are Times when War is Better than Our Free and Fair Elections
14 October 2013, by T J S GeorgeWhat if Hastinapura were a democracy? All the turmoil about giving half the kingdom to the Pandavas could have been avoided and the matter settled through free and fair elections. The minor irritations of democracy would have persisted—like (...) -
Signs of Disquiet
14 October 2013, by Nikhil ChakravarttyFrom N.C.’s Writings
New Delhi’s latest extravaganza is the all-in wrestling match between the President versus the Prime Minister, now being played with their respective supporters backing them with gusto.
But those who are not directly (...) -
Losing Freedom to the Corporate Hawks
14 October 2013, by Suranjita RayThe government campaigns for the future prospects of Bt cotton1 to boost India’s economy as it is the second largest exporter of cotton. The recent statement in the Lok Sabha on the success story of Bt cotton and call for a ‘sensitive approach’ to (...) -
Olive Oil and the Supermom—Feminism and the Conspicuous Consumption Challenge
14 October 2013WOMEN’S WORLD
by Shruti Chopra
The singular inability of India’s feminist movement to decrypt the coded messages tucked into the aggressive marketing campaigns of giant corporates pushing products and services of subjective “goodness” is (...)
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