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Islamic State’s Defeats in Iraq
27 November 2015, by Harish ChandolaThe Paris carnage of Friday, November 13, could have been a consequence of the Islamic State’s (IS’) major losses in its war in Iraq in the previous month of October. The IS possibly wanted to demonstrate that it is still a force capable of (...) -
Treading Lightly to Freedom in Myanmar
27 November 2015, by Uttam SenThe Aung San Suu Kyi-led National League for Democracy’s clean sweep in the November 8 elections in Myanmar surprised those who thought that the embers of the 1990 outcome had finally died down. The NLD had stormed those elections as well (if (...) -
Self-Destructive Politics of BJP
27 November 2015, by Sharad Rajimwalewell under two years of its rule, the BJP Government appears to be fast losing its steam; by all indications it has started huffing and puffing. Before that it found little difficulty in whipping up sentiments in its favour in its tempestuous (...) -
Protecting Farmers, Reducing Emissions: Integrating Climate Change Concerns with Welfare of Farmers and Food Security in India
27 November 2015, by Bharat DograI. Introduction
The seriousness of climate change and the urgency of related adaptation and mitigation actions are by now scientifically well established. Despite this, its significance in terms of basic changes needed at the policy level has (...) -
Claims over Kohinoor
27 November 2015, by Kuldip NayarThe British establishment must have prevailed upon Prime Minister Narendra Modi not to mention Kohinoor during his official visit to the United Kingdom. Otherwise, it is not under-standable why he did not refer to the subject even once directly (...) -
Apne Apne Ram: The God of Politics
27 November 2015by Navneet Sharma and Pradeep Nair
Ram naam sat hai
The above sentence literally states a divine matter of fact that the Ram (the God) is the only universal truth but obtains a very different meaning in practice, usually chanted by people while (...) -
We Need No Taliban Here
27 November 2015, by Nikhil ChakravarttyFrom N.C.’s Writings
Maqbool Fida Husain is at the very centre of a storm whose after-effects are extremely relevant for our democracy—both for the democratic structure of our state and for the preservation of democratic values in our society.
It (...) -
Restoring Peace and Democracy in Chhattisgarh: Inherent Message of a Political Memoir
27 November 2015, by Gabriele DietrichBOOK REVIEW
Inside Chhattisgarh: A Political Memoir by Ilina Sen; Penguin Books India; 2014; pages: 307; Price: Rs 399.
This is an extraordinary book, based on an unusual life-journey, rooted in search of solidarity and democratic transformation (...) -
Writers, Scientists, Artists Cannot See their Land Wrecked by Fascist Forces
27 November 2015, by Humra QuraishiMUSINGS
Whilst the 2002 Gujarat pogrom was peaking, I was attending a Governing Council meet of one of the colleges here in this Capital city. Seated next to me was a woman lawyer who later became one of the spokespersons for the BJP ... Towards (...) -
Paris and Burma: Complex Global Reality
21 November 2015POLITICAL NOTEBOOK
The entire West, led by the United States, has vowed to wage a ‘fight-to-the-finish’ battle against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). Terrorists of the ISIS made a bloodbath of the innocent in a series of acts of (...)
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