MUSINGS
BJP chief Rajnath Singh sounds like a typical bluff-master when he quips that he and his party are sorry for the ‘mistakes’ committed against the Muslims. A bluff which is so horribly crude that one should not waste a second harping on it. (...)
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What Textbooks do in Gujarat
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West Asia through the Lens of US media
15 March 2014MEDIA
by Satraajit Palchoudhury
In the lexicon of the US, West Asia is described as a troubled periphery. The US diplomats always look at their West Asian counterparts with a suspicious eye. The recent stand-off between Washington and Tehran on (...) -
Obama piles Pressure on Russia
15 March 2014, by M K BhadrakumarThe US President, Barack Obama, reached out to China on March 10 to discuss the Ukraine situation. Notably, his phone conversation with President Xi Jinping is Obama’s first such exchange with a world leader outside the Euro-Atlantic zone. This (...) -
Poetics of Subalternity: Remembering Namdeo Laxman Dhasal (1949-2014)
15 March 2014, by Arvind KumarTRIBUTE
I vividly remember that sweaty summer afternoon of June 2007, when I had the opportunity to speak to maverick poet and activist Namdeo Dhasal who authored the powerful lines quoted below. I wished to speak to him in connection with my (...) -
EC Unfolds Poll Process
11 March 2014, by SCEDITORIAL
The Election Commission unfolded on March 5 the process of holding the 16th Lok Sabha poll in the country. It will take place for the first time in nine phases—from April 7 to May 12; the counting of votes will be on May 16 and the (...) -
Ukraine in Turmoil
11 March 2014, by Arun MohantyUkraine continues to be in the midst of a deep crisis provoked by the country’s ultra-nationalists in connivance with the West. Opposition parties that captured power in Kiev through a coup do not know what to do in order to resolve the (...) -
Bhuvanesh Chaturvedi: Standard-bearer of Congress’ Core Values
11 March 2014, by Neerja Chowdhurytribute
He was the quintessential backroom boy of Indian politics, and he came into his own during P.V. Narasimha Rao’s premeirship.
Bhuvanesh Chaturvedi, who died on March 2 in a Kota hospital after an illness, was Narasimha Rao’s MOS in the (...) -
Double-Speak
11 March 2014From N.C.’s Writings
On September 15, the Prime Minister of India met a gathering of eminent academics from a number of seats of learning in the Capital—Delhi University, Jamia Millia, Jawa-harlal Nehru University and the Institute of Economic (...) -
Ominous Portents
11 March 2014, by Kuldip NayarAnother Lok Sabha, 15th in the series, has concluded its five-year tenure. Whatever business that was transacted in the House was, indeed, exasperating and raucous. Unfortunately the House representing the democratic system has fallen by the (...) -
Dismantling Meta-Narratives: Women, Development and Globalisation
11 March 2014by manisha mishra
“A girl whose spirits have not been dampened by inactivity, or innocence tainted by false shame, will always be a romp...”
Mary Wollstonecraft (A Vindication of the Rights of Women, 1792, p. 87
The modern social scenario is (...)
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