From N.C.’s Writings
May 3 marked the 120th birth anniversary of Vengali Krishnan Krishna Menon, the former Defence Minister of India (popularly known as V.K. Krishna Menon). Unfortunately the anniversary went largely unnoticed. He was born near (...)
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Krishna Menon: Not Millstone but Milestone
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Remembering Krishna Menon
16 May 2016, by Barun Das GuptaVengali Krishnan Krishna Menon (1896-1974) whose 120th birthday on May 3 this year quietly passed by, unobserved and unremem-bered, is now an almost forgotten hero—or villain, according to one’s perception. Krishna Menon stood like a rock by the (...) -
A Thought on Krishna Menon
16 May 2016by K. Vikram Rao
Indian’s most unforgettable Defence Minister, V.K. Krishna Menon, was not remembered in his homeland on his 120th birth anniversary on May 3. But his old friends met at the Nehru Centre in London and talked about his views on (...) -
Modi Government is acting like a Bull in China Shop
16 May 2016, by M K BhadrakumarThe following piece was written sometime ago but could not be used earlier due to unavoidable reasons. So some points made here are dated. Yet given the importance of the issues raised in the overall context we are publishing it for the benefit (...) -
Acts of Commission and Omission
16 May 2016, by Kuldip NayarAll defence deals have inbuilt commission which is paid to those who purchase arma-ments. The Congress party, after getting power soon after independence, used the money to fight the elections. Babu Jagjivan Ram, the then Defence Minister, (...) -
Fat Men and the Starving Millions
16 May 2016, by S G VombatkereThe Nation Wants to Know
That there are many issues which agitate the minds of the people is beyond dispute. But the minds of elected representatives in State and Central governments appear to be agitated on election issues or matters related to (...) -
Bangladesh: The Radical Religious Rationale
16 May 2016by Ziauddin Chowdhury
The dastardly killing of secular elements of different occupations (but mainly bloggers) by extremist fanatics in Bangladesh has roused public opinion in that country. We are reproducing, with due acknowledgement, the (...) -
Debates on the Direction of Democracy in Bangladesh
16 May 2016by Anindita Ghoshal
Bangladesh was the third country in a row to come out of a nation-making process from a colonial state to an independent one (1947-71). Nationalism played a major role in the fight against colonialism and in shaping up the (...) -
Implications of the IIT Fee Hike
16 May 2016by Monish Kumar Babbar and Sandeep Pandey
The Indian Institutes of Technology Council, headed by the Minister of Human Resources Development, Smriti Irani, based on a recommendation by its Standing Committee, has decided to increase the (...) -
Chhattisgarh: A Land of “Primitive Accumulation”
16 May 2016COMMUNICATION
Marx used the category “primitive accumulation” to characterize the violence associated with the birth of capitalism.The “robbery of the common lands”, “expropriation of the agricul-tural population from the land” and the “usurpation (...)
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