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India-Germany Relations: Natural Partners in a Globalised World
6 December 2015, by Bharti ChhibberIndia and Germany share historical trade relations dating back to as far as the 16th century. Presently, Germany is India’s most important trading partner within the European Union. With India’s economic liberalisation in the 1990s, the (...) -
Afghanistan: Kunduz and the Deceit of ‘Collateral Damage’
6 December 2015by Sonali Huria and Pupul Dutta Prasad
On November 5, 2015, the international medical humanitarian organisation, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) or Doctors without Borders, released its Preliminary Internal Review1 regarding the devastating aerial (...) -
Old-time NATO the New Dinosaur?
6 December 2015, by Mohan K. TikkuStill recovering from the after-effects of the November 13 terrorist attack in Paris, President Francois Hollande followed his trip to Washington with a visit to Moscow on November 26. The United States, after all, was the traditional ‘Big Daddy’ (...) -
A Delicate Shade of Pink
6 December 2015, by Dipak MalikBOOK REVIEW
A Delicate Shade of Pink: The Lives of Hella Wuolijoki and Salme Dutt in the Service of Revolution by Erkki Tuomioja; Wisdom Tree: New Delhi; 2013; pages: Xiv+375.
A Delicate Shade of Pink by Erkki Tuomioja is a story from a distant (...) -
Myanmar’s Tryst With Democracy — The Road Ahead
6 December 2015, by Sandeep ShastriMyanmar is clearly at the cusp of momen-tous change. The excitement and sense of anticipation among the citizens in the country are palpably visible. In its journey of transition to democracy, the much-heralded elections of November 8, were a (...) -
Ramkrishna Mukherjee [November 14, 1917-November 15, 2015]
6 December 2015TRIBUTE
Ramkrishna Mukherjee, a distinguished scientist of the Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, founder of the Sociological Research Unit at the ISI at the behest of P.C. Mahalanobis, one of the designers of the National Sample Survey of (...) -
Anti-Fascism Front Launched
6 December 2015The Fasivad Virodhi Manch, an Anti-Fascism Front, was launched at a public meeting and press conference New Delhi’s Press Club of India on November 19, 2015. The meeeting was addressed by Ashok Vajpeyi, John Dayal, Ali Javed, Apoorvanand, Ram (...) -
Terror in Europe, Intolerance in India
27 November 2015, by SCEDITORIAL
Speaking at Kuala Lumpur while addressing the Indian diaspora there, PM Narendra Modi made a significant assertion last Sunday (November 22). This had not come from him in India. He underscored that terror must be delinked from (...) -
Kobad Ghandy’s Request for Urgent Appeal to Release him on Bail
27 November 2015ON GROUNDS OF AGE AND SERIOUS HEALTH CONDITIONS
Kobad Ghandy’s Request for Urgent Appeal to Release him on Bail
Kobad Ghandy wrote the following note on November 10, 2015 and sent it to us for publication in Mainstream at the earliest. It (...) -
From Paris to Beirut: Is the War Against ISIS Losing Sight of its Humanitarian Objectives?
27 November 2015by Sanjal Shastri
From the recent string of terror attacks in Beirut to the (alleged) bombing of the Russian airliner in Egypt and the carnage in Paris—all these clearly point to a strong ISIS link. It has now been more than a year since the (...)
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