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Communal fascism is the greatest enemy of Indian democracy as it aims at transforming India into a Hindu Rashtra and establish a Hindu state and is deadly opposed to the distinctive features of Indian national culture—pluralism, (...)
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Do Champions of Communal Fascism deserve any Tribute?
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Justice Katju Merits Compliments, Nothing Has Changed In Gujarat
6 March 2013, by Humra QuraishiMUSINGS
Hopefully Chairperson of the Press Council of India Justice Markandey Katju’s words come in as a hurdle in Narendra Modi’s march towards New Delhi. Katju spoke out loud and clear, and at an apt and appropriate juncture, when the EU and (...) -
They Do Not Extremists Are Extremists: Understand the Language of Reason and Peace
6 March 2013by Asghar Ali Engineer
Recently we read with great pain that the extremists in Pakistan killed several women who were active in administering the polio dose to the children. They think it is an international conspiracy to reduce the population (...) -
Political Profligacy
6 March 2013, by Nikhil ChakravarttyFrom N.C.’s Writings
After the setback suffered in the June by-election reverses, the Congress-I leadership—that is, in effect, Rajiv Gandhi himself—was expected to take a serious view of the declining prestige, influence and authority of his (...) -
Dalai Lama and the Tibetan Struggle
6 March 2013, by Kuldip NayarWhenever I see the Dalai Lama either in person or in picture, I feel that here is a man who presides over a receding culture of thousands of years and realises that it has a problematic future. Tibet is the home of this culture, a country which (...) -
Tribute: Subrata Sinha - Passionate Defender of Environment
6 March 2013, by Sankar RayThe passing away of Subrata Sinha, the former Deputy Director General of the Geological Survey of India, on January 19 (born 1932), removes from the midst of down-to-earth environmentalists and earth-scientists an exceptional character for, (...) -
The Amazing Brazenness of Mahinda Rajapaksa
6 March 2013, by Apratim MukarjiThe Sri Lankan Government and the inter-national community are gearing up for a major confrontation in Geneva in March over the alleged human rights violations that had occurred in the final stage of the war against the Liberation Tigers of (...) -
A Long-term Loss
6 March 2013by Qazi Syed Sajad
A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman thinks of the next generation. —James Freeman Clarke, Sermon
The untimely, tragic and politically surcharged execution of Parliament attack convict Moha-mmad Afzal Guru has (...) -
Threat to River Ganga and the Life of its Saviour
6 March 2013, by Madhu BhaduriSince the last two months the attention of the country and the media has focused on the Mahakumbh Mela on the shores of the holy river Ganga. In the meantime the most sincere devotee of the river has silently gone on a hunger strike to draw (...) -
Tribute: Dipankar Chakraborty
6 March 2013by Bishwajit Sen
He was a democrat to the core of his being. He always gave the “other” voice more importance than his own, even if that meant giving up some of his own preferences. One hardly comes across such a person, in the middle-class (...)
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