by Fayezah Iqbal
I am a Muslim and an Indian too to supplement my identity description. Despite knowing the fact that the raging times of minority hatred will add to more alienation of Muslims at every single step, I have felt a strong affinity (...)
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I Am An Indian Too
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What were the Main Incentives for Creation of ASEAN?
15 April 2016by Shubhra Bhargava
The Association of South-East Asian Nations is an economic and political organisation with ten member-nations. The ASEAN was formed on August 8, 1967. The member-states are: Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, (...) -
Defence of Constitution and Democracy: Need for Democratic Unity
15 April 2016, by Anil RajimwaleHistory often teaches through events the lessons not learnt through theory. To forget the serious history of Germany, Italy and Europe of the 1930s and other events is a serious lapse on the part of the progressive forces. The JNU events, (...) -
India’s Cost of Evading ‘Western Enlightenment’
15 April 2016by Arup Maharatna
In this essay we seek to posit that many of the major ills that presently afflict Indian politics, society, and culture are attributable, in a large measure, to its resolute escape from the core ideational and attitudinal (...) -
BJP’s Duplicity and Artful Demagogy
15 April 2016COMMUNICATION
The BJP, the ruling party at the Centre, has earned notoriety for duplicity, artful demagogy for non-implementation of promises and tall talk. It has been implementing the RSS agenda of transforming India from a secular democratic (...) -
Real Face of Hindutva Leadership
10 April 2016POLITICAL NOTEBOOK
As the pre-election tension grips several States going to polls to elect Assemblies where electoral campaign is on in full swing, the latest incident in Srinagar’s National Institute of Technology (where clashes took place on (...) -
Money Makes the Mare Go
10 April 2016, by Kuldip NayarThat the Indians have stashed money abroad was known even when I began my journalism career almost 60 years ago. The West German Government once provided us with the list of depositors. But nothing came out of it because the people involved (...) -
SC Decision to Release Saibaba on Bail
10 April 2016The Committee for the Defence and Release of Dr G.N. Saibaba wholeheartedly welcomes the decision of the Supreme Court of India to release Dr G.N. Saibaba on bail forthwith. This is indeed a much-needed and long-awaited relief for Dr Saibaba, (...) -
The Kolkata Flyover Collapse: Some Questions
10 April 2016, by Barun Das GuptaTill the afternoon of Thursday, March 31, the Hyderabad-based construction firm Iragava-puru Venkata Reddy Construction Ltd., better known by its initials IVRCL, was not a very high-profile company. But the sudden collapse of a huge slab of a (...) -
Celebrating a People’s Historian in Terrible Times
10 April 2016, by Humra QuraishiMUSINGS
On Monday, March 28, the Jawaharlal Nehru University’s Centre for Historical Studies hosted a day-long convention—Jashn-e-Azaadi: Remem-bering Bipan Chandra... celebrating the people’s historian, Bipan Chandra, and celebrating the Indian (...)
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