Editorial
In four days’ time, on August 15, 2018, we will be celebrating our seventysecond Independence Day. And within less than a year the country will be holding its next general elections to elect the seventeenth Lok Sabha.
Today itself has (...)
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The Coming Struggle
16 August 2018, by SC -
Anguish, not Anger / Gandhi’s Lonely Furrow
16 August 2018, by Nikhil ChakravarttyFrom N.C.’s Writings
Anguish, not Anger
The countdown for a national crisis of fearsome dimension has begun. The build-up of a nationwide communal conflict could be discerned, as one finds that the feverish activity for the building of the Ram (...) -
India - Pakistan: Seventyone Years On, Frosty Relations Continue
16 August 2018, by Kuldip NayarIt was August 12, 1947, three days before India became free. My father, a practising doctor, summoned us, three brothers and asked what our programme was. I told him that I wanted to stay in Pakistan just as the Muslims would in India. My elder (...) -
On Independence Day
16 August 2018by Eduardo Faleiro
On August 15, we celebrate the Independence Day. On that day, in 1947, India became a free and democratic country. The British ruled India for around two hundred years. Though they came to India for trading purposes, they (...) -
Subverting Democracy without Vote-rigging
16 August 2018by L.K. Sharma
Recent events in some prominent democratic nations have highlighted the internal threats that are hard to see and even harder to counter. A military dictator can be identified.
Democracy is in the news in a Pakistan that has held (...) -
The Bangladeshi Problem in Assam: A Historical Background
16 August 2018, by Barun Das GuptaThe publication of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam on July 30 has once again raised the question: who is an Assamese in Assam? Four million permanent residents of Assam have been excluded from the NRC. Those excluded have been (...) -
Activist who brought Hope to Bundelkhand Villages is No More
16 August 2018COMMUNICATION
Bhagwat Prasad, a leading social activist of Bundelkhand region, breathed his last on August 8. As director of a major voluntary organisation of this region, named Akhil Bharatiya Samaj Seva Sansthan (ABSSS), Bhagwat Prasad was (...) -
Swachh Panchayat, Swachh Bharat: A Testimony of Twentyfive Years of Decentralisation
16 August 2018, by Bidyut MohantyThe year 2018 is being celebrated as the twentyfifth year of decentralisation at the grass-roots level all over India.
The 73rd Constitution Amendment Act 1993 was enacted with a vision of achieving three objectives through the path of (...) -
Narratives of Fake News, Lynchings and Mobocracy in India
16 August 2018by Abid Ahmad Shah
India is a country of people belonging to varied regions, religions, sects, communities, castes; etc. From the past times till date, the multiculturalism and plural ethos of this country has set a strong precedent to the world (...) -
Burying Karunanidhi
16 August 2018, by Badri RainaBury him where you will
Masters of the day,
You cannot ever bury
His work, his legacy,
He took no help from god
For his mission among the legion
Of the oppressed; his godless humanism
Was more spiritual than religion.
His school-drop-out pen (...)
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