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Protecting Panchayati Raj in Difficult Times
31 January 2017, by Bharat DograOne of the achievements about which India can rightly be proud of is the vast network of three-tier local self-government institutions that has been created in over half-a-million villages of the country. This system of ‘panchayati raj’ gets an (...) -
Simultaneous Parliament and State Assembly Polls Strike at the Root of Federalism
31 January 2017, by Rajindar SacharPrime Minister Modi has for the last six months kept up a continuous refrain for simultaneously holding Lok Sabha and State Assembly polls and the supposed advantages that would flow from it. As was to be expected, a number of newspapers and (...) -
Republic Day, Sovereignty and the Youth
31 January 2017by Prem Singh
The Constitution of India was adopted on January 26, 1950 and we entered the world stage as a sovereign republic. Ever since January 26 is celebrated as the Republic Day, a celebration of our sovereignty. Vibrant tableaus of (...) -
“Babu Hatao, Fauji Bachao”: Trifling with the Fauj and National Security
31 January 2017, by S G VombatkereCivil-military relations are today at an all-time low and although the decades-long continuity of the bureaucratic hand is obvious in the current NDA-2 dispensation, there is also evidence of the political leadership humiliating the military. (...) -
He Stands There
31 January 2017He stands there
holding his iconic hammer
silhouetted stark against history’s horizon
watching the sickle move and meet
the full harvest of time.
He stands there
waiting for the flags of revolutionary change
flutter aloft fearlessly
and redeem (...) -
Demonetisation: A Failed Financial Dialysis
31 January 2017by V. Mathew Kurian
Money to the economy is like blood to our human body. Circular flow of money is exactly similar to the circulation of blood in our biological system. When we lack adequate blood, we become anaemic and vulnerable. In the (...) -
Bearing Witness
31 January 2017, by Sagari ChhabraI tried to write, but the word shuddered,
Looked over its shoulder in every direction,
Then broke into letters.
I tried to speak,
But the sentence hung in mid-air,
As I tried to give it utterance
It broke into a stammer.
I walked out to witness (...) -
Gandhi and West Africa: Exploring the Affinities
31 January 2017, by Anil Nauriya“There is however no hope of avoiding the catastrophe” (of increased racial bitterness) “unless the spirit of exploitation that at present dominates the nations of the West is transmuted into that of real helpful service, or unless the Asiatic and (...) -
How Barack Obama becomes a Tragic Hero of Our Times
31 January 2017, by M K BhadrakumarIn his famous existentialist essay, “The Tragic Sense of Life”, the Spanish philosopher, novelist, poet and academic, Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1936), describes people’s concern with their legacy as a “tremendous struggle to singularise ourselves, to (...) -
A Visibly Defensive PM
31 January 2017After the Prime Minister’s speech to the nation on December 31, 2016, Aurobindo Ghose of the Peoples’ Rights Organisation (Manav Adhikar Manch) observed:
“Today he was different. Sounding concilitiary and compensatory. Atoning for the unsaid (...)
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