BOOK REVIEW
CALL FOR ISLAMABAD’S TRANSFORMATION TO MAKE IT GOVERNABLE AND FOCUSSED ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Aejaz Ahmad and Zaboor Ahmad
Pakistan: Between Mosque and Military by Hussain Haqqani; Penguin Viking Books; 2016; pages 464.
Hussain (...)
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Lucid Account of Pakistan’s Existence and Future
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Lest We Forget
23 May 2016Several noted personalities passed away in the last few days,
On April 27 veteran CPI-M leader and former Education Minister in the West Bengal Left Front Ministry, Kanti Biswas, 84, breathed his last in Kolkata. He was suffering from diseases (...) -
Towards a Democratic Union of South Asia An Idea Whose Time Has Come
23 May 2016, by Bharat DograOne out of five persons in the world lives in South Asia. This is also a region where a very large number of farm animals live and where there is a rich diversity of other life forms and their diverse habitats. However, with very serious (...) -
Modi’s Nepal Conundrum
23 May 2016, by M K BhadrakumarThe India-Nepal relationship is staring at the abyss. It has been on a roller-coaster through the past two-year period of the BJP Government, and of late, hurtling down the hill uncontrollably. A tipping-point is nearing and the famous lines (...) -
Spectre of Influx
23 May 2016by Samit Kar
India is now witnessing Assembly elections in five States covering the vast expanse of the country. Of the five States where new governments are to be formed subsequent to the poll, West Bengal is now under a very long election (...) -
Would Aung San Suu Kyi succeed in freeing Burma from Army’s Dominance?
23 May 2016by Monaem Sarker
Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma’s pro-democracy leader and Nobel Peace Laureate, spent more than 15 years in detention, most of it under house arrest. She was released from her current third period of detention on Saturday, November 13, (...) -
BJP loses Face, PM lands in a Soup
17 May 2016, by SCEDITORIAL
The second phase of Parliament’s Budget session has concluded. According to statistics, this phase was the most productive of all the sittings since the Narendra Modi Government came to power at the Centre two years ago.
The most (...) -
Growing Intolerance in a Tolerant Society
17 May 2016by Ram Puniyani
Towards the end of 2015 many writers and eminent citizens returned their national honours protesting against the growing atmosphere of intolerance. The list was long and this acted as a process where some introspection took place (...) -
Myanmar: One Gentle Step at a Time
17 May 2016, by Sandeep ShastriThe newly elected NLD Government has now been in power in Myanmar for just over a month. Its historic win in the November 2015 elections was a categorical vote in favour of democratisation and transition away from military rule. Under the (...) -
Letter from Kishenji to his Mother
17 May 2016The following is a letter written by Kishenji, a former Central Committee of the CPI (Maoist), who was killed in a so-called eancounter in West Bengal in November 2011. (His full name was Mallojula Koteswara Rao.) The letter was written before (...)
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