by Arun Srivastava
The threat of feudal violence has started resonating in rural Bihar. The manner in which the feudal forces had started taking refuge in the BJP in the wake of the Lok Sabha elections had given rise to the apprehension that the (...)
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Lingering Shadow of Feudal Oppression
2 November 2014 -
Violence In Mewat-Tauru, A Flashpoint
2 November 2014, by D.R. ChaudhryThis article was sent quite sometime ago, but could not be used earlier due to unavoidable reasons.
A simple road accident in the Tauru town of the Mewat district on June 8, 2014, so common all over India, resulting in one casualty, triggered (...) -
Arresting the Administrative Rot
2 November 2014by Pranjit Agarwala
The former DGP of Assam Shankar Barua’s suicide because of the multi-crore Saradha chit-fund scam has not only shocked the country but has also shaken the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). Whatever the merits of the (...) -
Nikhil Chakravartty’s 101st birth anniversary
2 November 2014On November 3 this year falls Nikhil Chakravartty’s 101st birth anniversary. On this occasion we are reproducing three of his writings. The first one is one of his earliest articles, published under the peudonym ‘Vanguard’ in The Calcutta (...) -
Salutations to a Dear Comrade
2 November 2014, by V R Krishna IyerWhat a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty! In form, in moving, how express and admirable! Dear Nikhil is dead. Is he? It is blaspheme to say he is dead. He dwells in the hearts of millions within Bharat and all (...) -
Nikhilda’s Eternal Silence
2 November 2014, by Madhu Dandavate -
Why I Was Drawn To Him
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Don’t Dilute or Restrict MGNREGA
2 November 2014COMMUNICATION
There are widespread apprehensions that the rural employment guarantee provisions are likely to be significantly diluted or restricted in the near future. This can take the form of restricting the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural (...) -
NREGS: Need for Reinvigoration
2 November 2014by Saumitra Mohan
With the change of guard at the Centre, lots of initiatives are being conceived. Newer schemes and programmes are being contemplated to bring about a positive turnaround in the socio-economic life of common India. Many extant (...) -
The Simulacra and Vortex of Virtual Reality: Varied Myths
2 November 2014by Saket Bihari
“The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth. It is the truth which conceals that there is none. The simulacrum is true.”
Ecclesiastes
Virtual Reality is a kind of rigmarole of offsetting the tried and tested realism of (...)
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