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Open Letter to PM Narendra Modi
11 December 2016Yatin Oza, a former BJP MLA from Gujarat, who was a close confidant of Prime Minister Narendra Modi when the latter was the Chief Minister of the State, has in an open letter to him, dated November 9, 2016, blasted his demonetisation drive, (...) -
Hegemony of Ultra-Nationalism as a New World Order
11 December 2016by Arun Srivastava
The word ‘nationalism’ was the unwritten sanction for Hitler to kill six million Jews as the Germans cheerfully watched. In recent times the global fraternity is witnessing nationalism once again raising its head but this time (...) -
Envisioning Health Mobility in India
11 December 2016by Pradeep Nair
This article attempts to envision the vivifi-cation of the health sector with the substructure of technological, digital and mobile revolution in the country. The healthcare sector is the primary service provider and welfare (...) -
India and the South China Sea Dispute
11 December 2016by Supriya Sharma
The Hague’s Arbitration Tribunal on July 12 clearly backed the Philippines on the issue of the South China Sea (SCS) dispute. It also declared large parts of the South China Sea as international waters and a few as other (...) -
LEMOA: Dark Cloud over Indian Sovereignty
11 December 2016by Abhimanyu Kohar
Today in the 21st century it is not easy to directly put a nation under slavery. But for the last 20 years, various Western agendas and treaties of powerful nations are indirectly driving the weaker nations to slavery. Amidst (...) -
Maoist Killings in Malkangiri
11 December 2016by Suranjita Ray
For the last few decades now, Malkangiri district1 of Western Odisha has remained a concern of the governments both at the Centre as well as in the State. It not only ranks last in the indices of development and figures at the (...) -
How do Women Regain their Lost Glory?
11 December 2016WOMEN’S WORLD
by Fayezah Iqbal
In a world stupefied with the mantras of ‘feminism’ and ‘women emancipation’, no wonder if the women are infatuated with the thought of gaining respect and dignity only by competing with men. In the words of the (...) -
Myth of Women Empowerment in the Panchayats of Haryana
11 December 2016by Ranbir Singh and Kushal Pal
The prescription of educational qualifications by the Government of Haryana in the 2016 elections for contesting to the Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs) has been reported to be a game-changer. (Kundu, 2016) (...) -
Grim Warning from Bhopal
11 December 2016, by Nikhil ChakravarttyFrom N.C.’s Writings
It was a massacre of innocents by all counts. What happened at the Union Carbide plant at Bhopal in the early morning of December 3 was not just a tragedy but a heinous crime which killed nearly two thousand and hospitalised (...) -
Human Rights: Basic Issues
11 December 2016, by Nikhil ChakravarttyHuman Rights Day is observed on December 10 every year commemorating the day, in 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. To mark the occasion we are reproducing the following article N.C. (...)