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Parties Ignore Human Rights
6 April 2014, by Kuldip NayarDictatorships get a fillip when democracies falter. India committed this cardinal sin when it abstained from voting at the UN Human Rights Council. A resolution was sought to be passed to seek an international, transparent inquiry to find out (...) -
BJP’s Dangerous Politics / We Must All Resist BJP’s Two-Nation Theory
6 April 2014, by Nikhil ChakravarttyFrom N.C.’s Writings
BJP’s Dangerous Politics
One of my earliest reporting experiences was the great Calcutta killing of 1946. Fierce communal passions were unleashed and thousands were done to death on both sides in the course of a couple of (...) -
Bare Facts
6 April 2014, by Badri RainaIn terms of geographical spread and demographic reach, India has one national party, namely, the Indian National Congress, and one quasi-national party, namely, the Bharatiya Janata Party—quasi because among a hundred and fifty or more (...) -
RSS-BJP, Sardar Patel and Mahatma Gandhi
6 April 2014, by Anil RajimwaleThe RSS/BJP continue to act innocent on the Mahatma Gandhi assassination issue. Fresh attempts are being made by their leaders, on the eve of the elections, to ‘clarify’ that the RSS was in no way involved in the crime. This does not convince (...) -
Defence and Self-Reliance
6 April 2014[We have come across two articles related to defence and self-reliance in Business Standard of late. Since the subject is under intense discussion in recent times we are reproducing, with due acknowledgement, the two articles for the benefit of (...) -
The Path of Revolution
6 April 2014, by Bharat Dogra‘Revolution’ has been a very inspiring word for millions of people working for creating a better world. However, vested interests have often also misused this word. So it is important to try to define ‘revolution’ in the present-day context in (...) -
Muslims and the Indian Election 2014
6 April 2014by Imtiaz Ahmad Ansari
The 16th Lok Sabha elections for the world’s largest democracy, India, will be held in nine phases from April 7 to May 12, 2014. The total number of voters for this election is 814 million. This election is important in (...) -
Media: News Medium and the Stereotypes
6 April 2014by Anil Chamadia
The Hindu, a leading English daily newspaper, carried a report on December 20, 2013 about the suicide of Dr Khurshid Anwar, an Executive Director of an NGO. He had committed suicide on December 18. In the report its (...) -
Kashmir: Modi’s Fantasies and Article 370
6 April 2014by Imran Ahmad Kichloo
“The time has come for at least a debate to find out whether Article 370 has benefited the common man in Jammu and Kashmir or not,” Narendra Modi stated recently while addressing a rally in Jammu. This reminds us of the (...) -
India: Growing Importance of Fruits and Vegetables
6 April 2014, by Gilbert EtienneFruits and vegetables (F/V) have been quite a luxury in many countries in Asia and elsewhere for centuries. When travelling from Lebanon to the border of Bengal, kitchen gardens, so widespread in Africa south of the Sahara, were not common, (...)
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