This article appeared in the DNA (Mumbai) just before the Independence Day this year. It is being reproduced, with due acknowledgement, for the benefit of our readers.
As India’s 67th Independence Day approaches and speculation mounts about (...)
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True Independence Day Celebrations
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The Veto and Future Sketch
6 October 2014, by Amna MirzaThe recent proclamation by India at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) meet in Australia— that it has the right to retain higher stock-holding of foodgrains—has led to arguments over the Bali Agreement, the final Trade Facilit-ation Agreement (...) -
Real News: Mangalyaan’s Historic Feat
28 September 2014, by SCEDITORIAL
The situation in Maharashtra prior to the impending State Assembly elections has taken a new turn with the break-up of both the alliances—that of the ruling Congress-NCP combine and the one of the Opposition BJP and Shiv Sena. However, (...) -
For the people’s sake: Synchronising Sino-Indian Relations
28 September 2014, by Uttam SenIndia and China represent one-third of humanity to make their mutual relationship both illustrative and compelling. The choices and contradictions before the Sino-Indian multitude can serve as an example of what people at large have to live and (...) -
India-China Relations: In Dire Need of Proper Management to Ward Off Differences
28 September 2014by Sheel Bhadra Kumar
Relationships in international politics, especially with neighbours, are highly complicated, sensitive and volatile. Nation-states have to handle and settle their bilateral issues very delicately keeping in view others’ (...) -
China Needs to see India as an Equal. Economic Ties are No Substitute to Solving Border Problems
28 September 2014, by T J S GeorgeIMPRESSIONS
It’s a remarkable coincidence that Narendra Modi and Xi Jinping are brothers cast in the same mould. Both are believers in centralised authority, who spent their initial months in office consolidating their hold on the power (...) -
Changing the Character of Political Discourse
28 September 2014by Arun Srivastava
Narendra Modi, an RSS pracharak, could not be expected to possess a broader view of the national and global perspective as Atal Behari Vajpayee had. Modi suffered from a sense of personality complex but strove hard to project (...) -
How is the Cookie Crumbling?
28 September 2014, by Badri RainaI had concluded my last article (“Troubling Times for the Constitutional Republic,” Mainstream, Vol LII, No. 36, August 30, 2014) on a note of speculation about how Modiji’s equation with the ground-level Hindutva campaign directed chiefly at (...) -
Nation-states and Frontiers: Old Tumours or New Tremors?
28 September 2014, by Javed JabbarVIEW FROM PAKISTAN
This article was sent to us by the author for publication some time ago but could not be published earlier. —Editor
Pakistan completes 67 years as a nation-state while its Armed Forces conduct an unprece-dented campaign to (...) -
BJP Cannot Take Voters For Granted
28 September 2014by Harihar Swarup
What message does the by-elections in Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Assam and West Bengal send? One loud and clear message is that the Modi wave is losing its momentum. Coming on the heels of the setback in the Uttarakhand (...)
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