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Trump Riding High and Set to Roll the Dice for a Summit with Putin
9 July 2018, by M K BhadrakumarIf the Trump White House had let it be known a couple of months ago that it was working with the Kremlin to schedule a summit meeting between the two Presidents, all hell would have broken loose in the Washington Beltway. But that isn’t (...) -
Singapore Summit on North Korea’s Nuclear Issue
9 July 2018by Sudhakar Vaddi
Since almost seventy long years, the Korean Peninsula is a ground for a confrontation between the North Korea officially the Demo-cratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) and the United States (US). This alone made the first (...) -
Exposing the Facade of Neo-liberal Politics of the BJP
9 July 2018by Arun Srivastava
Oblivious of the changing contour and character of Dalit politics, the RSS and its front organisations continue to pursue their old strategy of insolently denigrating the Dalits. That the members of the Sangh Parivar do not (...) -
On Kashmir
9 July 2018, by Arup Kumar SenThe failure of the democratic experiments in Kashmir has a long history. Kashmir’s strongest leader in post-colonial India, Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, was all of a sudden informed by the Superintendent of Police in August 1953, when the Sheikh (...) -
A Modicum of Truth
9 July 2018, by Kuldip NayarI feel honoured that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has taken notice of my criticism. Indeed, he praised me and said: “I respect veteran journalist Kuldip Nayarji, he fought for freedom during the Emergency. He may be a harsh critic of us but I (...) -
Fish Out of Water: Setting of the Currency Crisis in India
9 July 2018by Atanu Sengupta and Sanjoy De
In Tradition
Formal-informal transactions are not new to India. State control in almost all spheres of life alongside parallel existence of the informal sector has been the hallmarks of the Indus Valley (...) -
The OHCHR Report on Kashmir
9 July 2018, by Tapan BoseThe United Nations, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on June 14 published a “Report on the Situation of Human Rights in Kashmir: Developments in the Indian State of Jammu and Kashmir from June 2016 to April 2018”. This is (...) -
Snapshots at Border
9 July 2018Children being ripped away
from the arms of their mothers;
parents not being able to see
where their kids have gone;
from within the metal cages
heart-rending cries rising,
asking for their papi, mami—
what a scene of inhumanity!
But in the (...) -
Scanning a Landmark
9 July 2018, by Nikhil ChakravarttyFrom N.C.’s Writings
Important events are graduated into landmarks in History as they are invested with hindsight. Perhaps it would be premature to call an event a landmark on the very morrow of its happening. By this criterion, the meeting of (...) -
All is Said but not Done
9 July 2018, by Badri RainaEverything has been tried—
From cajoling to condescension,
Gentle pellets to ammunition.
These are people of a different
Kind; they think they have
A right to their own mind.
They do not know that democracies
The world-over have long left
That (...)
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