by L.K. Sharma
This article is in two parts, the following is the first part. The second part will be carried next week.
A lot depends on where you come from. It affects your way of seeing.
Arriving from the India of the eighties, it seemed only (...)
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God Votes in India, Abstains in Britain
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Progress of RSS is Ominous
24 June 2018, by Kuldip NayarI find the followers of the secular ideology as fanatic as the others are. There was a furore over the visit of BJP President Amit Shah to my residence a few days ago. Criticism over telephone and e-mails were numberless. And all that they said (...) -
The Unedifying Spectacle of Educated Indians
24 June 2018by M.A. Sofi
The BJP juggernaut now sweeping large swathes of India seems unstoppable. Now with twentyone States out of a total of twentynine under its belt, it redounds to the highly effective and efficient administrative structure of the party (...) -
Lest We Forget
24 June 2018Fortythree years ago on June 26, 1975, the Emergency was proclaimed throughout the country as the ruling leadership bared its fangs nakedly displaying its dictatorial proclivities. We present here write-ups and poems that bring back the nightmare of those dark days when our freedom was sought to be snatched away and our voice throttled. —Editor
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Does it Matter?
24 June 2018, by Faiz Ahmed FaizMy tablet and my pen,
My two cherished treasures
Are snatched from me,
But does it matter?
For I have dipped my fingers
In the blood of my heart;
My tongue they sealed
But does it mater? For,
I have placed a tongue
In every link of chain
That (...) -
Opposition Parties joining to defeat BJP lack Alternate Policies
24 June 2018by S.R. Darapuri
The BJP’s chain of defeat, which started with the Gorakhpur and Phoolpur in Uttar Pradesh by- elections, has extended to defeats in Kairana and Noorpur. It has broken the invincibility myth of Modi and Amit Shah. If the (...) -
Pranab Mukherjee at RSS HQ: Images Speak Louder Than Words
24 June 2018by Ram Puniyani
Dialogue is a core part of the democratic process. The question thus is: can there be a dialogue between two opposing ideologies, the one of Indian nationalism and the other of Hindu nationalism?
We witnessed a strange spectacle (...) -
Pranabda Makes a Visit but why Now?
24 June 2018, by Badri RainaIn current parlance, here is my “takeaway” on Pranab Mukherjee’s so tantalizing visit to the RSS Headquarters in Nagpur:
First, why was he invited? However Mohanji Bhagwat may have underplayed the occur-rence as a rather routine and innocent one, (...) -
Union Budget 2018-19: Ambitious, Populist and Unprogressive Budget
24 June 2018by A.V.V.S.K. Rao
“From birth to death, our lives are affected in countless ways by the activities of government.” —Noble Laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz
Introduction
The backdrop to the Narendra Modi Govern-ment’s fifth Budget has been a domestic (...) -
In Search of a Better World
24 June 2018, by Arup Kumar SenCOMMUNICATION
All the great thinkers in history were in search of better worlds in their writings and thinking. The Indian Constitution represents our collective wisdom and suggests pathways for a better India. However, the values enshrined and (...)
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