From N.C.’s Writings
Distinguished revolutionary Kalpana Dutt’s nineteenth death anniversary fell on February 8 this year. It came and went without hardly anyone remembering her on the occasion. Kalpana’s birth centenary on July 27, 2013 also (...)
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Kalpana Dutt
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Requiem for Nido
22 February 2014, by A K BiswasSeventeen-year-old Nido Tania, a student from Arunachal, recently fell victim to hate crime in Delhi. The signifies what is fundamentally rotten in the public life of India as a nation. India’s feeble posturing for inclusive policy has remained (...) -
Who is an Indian?
22 February 2014by Biswajit Roy
Nido Tania reminds me of Bir Nilmani Singh
I did not know Nido, the teenaged student from Arunachal Pradesh in Delhi who died following a racist, parochial attack by some locals, presumably, north Indian men. He paid the price (...) -
An Open Letter to Medha Patkar
22 February 2014, by Bharat DograRespected Medhaji,
Greetings. I’ve learnt from newspaper reports that you’re contesting the Lok Sabha election as a candidate of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).
While certainly there are some positive aspects of the AAP and I’ve myself noticed the (...) -
AAP
22 February 2014, by Badri RainaO enfant terrible, What a spanner you have thrown Into the habibual settled ways Of proprietors who can Be heard to groan at the insouciance With which you relentlessly amaze. O picaroon of politics, there seems No end to the tricks you (...) -
Parvathi Krishnan Is No More
22 February 2014As we go to press, news has come that veteran CPI leader Parvathi Krishnan, who played a leading role in mobilising working women under the banner of the All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC), has passed away. She died in a hospital in (...) -
Direct Assault on Democracy
17 February 2014EDITORIAL
”My heart bleeds to see what is happening in the House. It is sad for democracy to see that such things are happening even after all appeals for calm.”
That was PM Manmohan Singh’s reaction after four Union Ministers belonging to the (...) -
FDCA’s Appeal to Restore Peace and Harmony in Muzaffarnagar and Shamli
17 February 2014The following is an appeal addressed on behalf of the Forum for Democracy and Communal Amity (FDCA) to the Union Home Minister, Sushil Kumar Shinde, and the UP Chief Minister, Akhilesh Yadav, for restoring peace and harmony in the riot-affected (...) -
AAP Must Clear Policy Confusion: Running a Government is a Sober and Serious Business
17 February 2014, by Rajindar SacharIt is hoped that the Delhi Law Minister has understood Article 227 of the Constitution of India providing for the separation of powers between the executive and the judiciary. He, along with Chief Minister Kejriwal, had an audience with the (...) -
Other Countries do something about Racism; Our Indifference Grievously Harms India
17 February 2014, by T J S GeorgeIMPRESSIONS
The question is not whether India is racist; the question is to what extent India is racist. Biases of a racial kind have always been a feature of our public life. Sometimes they were brushed aside as clowning, like Sardarji jokes; (...)
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