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Parliamentary Elections and Gorkhaland: Message from Darjeeling
24 October 2014, by Swatahsiddha SarkarThe exposure of the Darjeeling hills towards the tit-bits of electoral politics can be traced back to 1937, the year when the first-ever elections in the hills took place. According to the provisions of the Government of India Act 1935, the (...) -
Education Perspective
24 October 2014by Sadhan Mukherjee
Have our students stopped dreaming or thinking big? Don’t they feel that in the rapidly advancing modern world they have no place near the top? Conversely, why are we not trying to educate them for the future, their own and (...) -
Towards a New Education Policy
24 October 2014by Murzban Jal
All educational work in the field in the Soviet Republic of Workers and Peasants, in the field of political education in general and in the field of art in particular, should be imbued with the spirit of the class struggle being (...) -
Welcome Decision, Disconcerting Incidents
20 October 2014, by SCEDITORIAL
Last week a fervent appeal was made in these columns to de-escalate the rising tensions along the India-Pakistan border.
The ceasefire violations and firing on the LoC and international border in J&K have gradually declined although (...) -
Notes on the Leader
20 October 2014, by Mukul DubeSince the results of the general election were declared, I have been in a state of unbelief. The country now has at its head a man who has widely been called a mass murderer, who likened a massacre of Muslim citizens to the accidental death of a (...) -
Preeti Banerjee: The Melodious Voice that first sang ‘Sare Jahanse Achchha’
20 October 2014, by Sankar RayTRIBUTE
Preeti Banerjee (nee Sarkar) bade adieu to the mundane world on August 25 at 91. She was perhaps the last living member of the central squad of the Indian People’s Theatre Assocation (IPTA), the mass front of culture of the Communist (...) -
Need to Review and Reverse the Decision on Planning Commission
20 October 2014, by Bharat Dogra“The very first thing that our future National Government will have to do would be to set up a commission for drawing up a comprehensive plan of reconstruction.”
—Subhash Bose’s Presidential Address at Haripura Congress (February 19, 1938)
One of (...) -
We will Not Allow our Respective Faiths to be Used as Instruments of Violence
20 October 2014by B.P. Singh
The following is the text of an address by the author at the World Summit 2014 organised by the Universal Peace Foundation (Seoul, South Korea, August 10-12, 2014).
Thank you, Mr President Walsh, for inviting me to speak before (...) -
Tagore and Sikhism
20 October 2014, by Amiya DevRabindranath Tagore wrote six poems on Sikh heroism and martyrdom, two in 1888, three in 1898, and one in 1935. Of them three are on Guru Gobind Singh, one on Banda Bahadur, one on Bhai Torusingh, and one on the boy, Nehal Singh.
The Guru Gobind (...) -
Suspicion against Sikhs
20 October 2014, by Kuldip NayarThe Sikhs are a small, sturdy community in India. Since it is limited in size it is very protective about its identity. It often over-reacts but that is the sign of its assertion that it does not want to be taken cursorily.
Punjab, the (...)
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