by Binoy Viswam
The people of Kerala have given their verdict. It is emphatic, unequivocal and hence, historic. They made the LDF victorious by providing it with 91 seats in the 140-member Assembly. The UDF, led by the Congress, could secure (...)
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The Kerala Verdict
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Heat, Hate, Humbug
6 June 2016, by Badri RainaThe times are a-steaming
With heat, hate, humbug;
Victors of a street fight
Romp with ominous chug chug.
Money-spinners mark assent
To muscle brains of the day;
Celebrities do not mind being
Slaves to what golden mouth may say
Of the honest (...) -
Whither Indian Theatre: an interview with alkazi
6 June 2016, by Anees ChishtiVeteran theatre personality Ebrahim Alkazi is now ninety. In this year, a number of programmes have been launched in different parts of the country to highlight the life-time achievements of this stalwart theatre director who has produced an (...) -
An Appeal to Jat Leaders for Restraint
6 June 2016COMMUNICATION
There have been several recent newspaper reports which indicate that there are strong possibilities of the revival of the agitation by several members of the Jat community. As at the time of the previous such agitation there was a (...) -
Dividing the Nation, RSS-Style
29 May 2016, by SCEDITORIAL
The BJP-led NDA Government has completed two years today. As it observes its second anniversary, one is reminded of what happened in 1979. That was the time when the first anti-Congress government at the Centre, represented by the (...) -
Two Years of Modi Rule: Unfolding Hindutva Agenda
29 May 2016by Ram Puniyani
Introduction
Modi came to power with a bang in 2014. Riding on the support of the corporate world, the RSS combine, media blitz and sky-rocketing promises, he managed to get 31 per cent of votes and 282 seats in the Lok Sabha. (...) -
Biggest Foreign Policy Failure: Ties with Nepal
29 May 2016TWO YEARS OF MODI RULE
by Vivek Kumar Srivastava
In several ways it is conveyed that the Modi Government has performed extraordinarily well on the foreign policy front but the dark pimples are never talked about. The fact is that Modi’s South (...) -
Nationalism and Patriotism
29 May 2016by Sadhan Mukherjee
If you shout “Bharat Mata ki Jai”, you are a patriot. If you don’t for some reason, you are not only not a patriot but anti-national as well. That is the latest funda of varied Hindutva fanatics among whom are those occupying (...) -
A Judgement Affirming Constitutional Values
29 May 2016, by Sandeep PandeyThe judgement from the Allahabad High Court on April 23, 2016, quashing my termination order from the Indian Institute of Technology at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi has come as a big relief for me because it essentially is a vindication of (...) -
Nehru for Today
29 May 2016May 27 this year marked Jawaharlal Nehru’s fiftysecond death anniversary. On this occasion we are reproducing the following excerpts from the speeches and writings of Nehru that are of exceptional relevance today.
I have long been of opinion (...)
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