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China’s Creeping Crypto-Colonialism: Sovereignty of Small Neighbouring Countries in Danger
29 July 2018, by Kunal GhoshChina’s Belt and Road Initiative is ostensibly aimed at helping out lesser developed countries of Asia by building infrastructure and connectivity for them. However, it is associated with certain symptoms that are ominous. China has achieved (...) -
What Jayant Sinha Should Do
29 July 2018, by Humra QuraishiMUSINGS
If the union Minister for Civil Aviation, Jayant Sinha, is genuinely repentant about garlanding the lynching-killing accused in Jharkhand, then he ought to take the first flight to the particular village in Haryana’s Mewat belt, where (...) -
A Hug!
29 July 2018What’s there in a hug?
It may be desi, bidesi or even chipko.
But two hearts come closer,
narrowing the distance.
The effect may be different:
affectionate, startling,
embarrassing or artificial.
Yet it sends out a message.
You may differ from (...) -
SC’s Plainspeak and Mob Attack on Agnivesh
21 July 2018, by SCEDITORIAL
Once again the country’s Apex Court has risen to the occasion to unambiguously meet the challenge of mob vigilantism.
“Horrendous acts of mobocracy can’t be permitted to inundate the law of the land. Earnest action and concrete steps (...) -
Too Harsh a Judgment?
21 July 2018, by Kuldip NayarPakistan’s Supreme Court has sentenced twice popularly elected Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for 10 years in prison. The general remarks about the verdict is that it is too harsh. Nawaz Sharif, who heard about the judgment in London, has said that (...) -
Was Emergency in India akin to Hitler’s Regime?
21 July 2018by Ram Puniyani
On the eve of the 43rd anniversary of the Emergency, which was imposed on the country in 1975, the BJP has come out strongly condemning the event, issued a half-page advertisement and Modi said that it was imposed to save the (...) -
Why ISRO ‘Spy Case’ Is Important
21 July 2018, by T J S GeorgeIMPRESSIONS
India’s biggest achievement since independence is its march to leadership ranks in space technology. In June last year the national space organisation ISRO put into space a rocket as heavy as 200 fully grown elephants, making it a (...) -
Modi’s Kashmir Policy has brought Disrepute to India
21 July 2018by Tapan Bose
The cynical break-up of the PDP-BJP coalition government in Jammu and Kashmir by the BJP without any prior notice is a clear evidence of its plans to continue with the policy of “no dialogue” and harsh suppression of all forms of (...) -
The Crisis in Jammu and Kashmir: Who reset the clock to 1993?
21 July 2018by Mustafa Khan
What blunder has brought such a crisis in J&K that many perceive that India is killing its own people rather than the terrorists or the armed militants fighting the Army? The long promised plebiscite has simply become an (...) -
Hindi Journalism Loses Two Stalwarts
21 July 2018, by Bharat DograCOMMUNICATION
In June Hindi journalism lost two stalwarts who were committed to justice, equality and communal harmony.
Rajkishore was widely known as one of the senior most columnists in Hindi who wrote very regularly for several leading (...)
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