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Gains in Doha Afghan Talks
3 August 2019, by Harish ChandolaSome progress appears to have been made in talks on Afghanistan being held in a posh Qatari hotel sometime ago to solve the 40-year old complex conflict in Afghanistan, where the Taliban at the moment controls much of the countryside. The talks, (...) -
Political Triplets of New Democracy
3 August 2019by L.K. Sharma
Three important democracies have thrown up leaders who conform to a tried-and-tested template that is a telling comment on the state of the democratic word and on our times. This template excites the common people but shocks the (...) -
RTI, Karnataka, Sheila Dikshit, A.K. Roy
28 July 2019, by SCEDITORIAL
With the BJP getting support from the parties that are fence-sitters in the Rajya Sabha to take the ruling conglomerate’s strength in the Upper House to a majority, the NDA, now in power for the second time in the country, is (...) -
Gandhi or no Gandhi, Priyanka Shows the Way
28 July 2019, by Badri RainaThe Indian National Congress has been in the doldrums no doubt.
The many autopsies that have been airing since the results of the general elections came have tended to interpret the difficulties of the Party variously in mock, commiserative, (...) -
RSS in Textbooks: Contrasting Concepts of Nation and Nation-building
28 July 2019by Ram Puniyani
Nationalism has been a matter of debate yet again. For last few years we saw individuals being labelled as anti-national for criticising the ruling government, we witnessed the attack on the JNU on the ground that it is a (...) -
Now the RTI Act
28 July 2019, by Barun Das GuptaThe RTC (Amendment) Bill which the ruling party got passed in the Lok Sabha by its sheer brute majority is of a piece with the Modi Government’s systematic and sustained efforts at subverting the autonomy of every constitutional and statutory (...) -
Political Defections in Karnataka and Goa: A Blow to Democracy
28 July 2019by Joseph Abraham
With the political environment in Karnataka and Goa getting murkier after the shameful political defections, the prophecy of Lord Acton, the famous English historian, politician and writer, that “power tends to corrupt and (...) -
Turkey Undeterred by US Sanctions Threat
28 July 2019, by M K BhadrakumarThe loss of Istanbul to an Opposition candidate in Turkey’s recent local elections was hyped up by many American commentators, especially pro-Israeli analysts, as marking the end of President Recep Erdogan’s 17-year long dominance in the (...) -
It is Sanghi Rashtravad indeed!
28 July 2019by Hargopal Singh
Assorted minds, big and small, continue to rack their brains to interpret the results of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. There is virtually a spate of opinions which widely diverge. Undoubtedly the BJP, led by the Narendra (...) -
Open Letter to the Vice-Chancellor of Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University
28 July 2019, by Shamsul IslamRespected Vice-Chancellor Dr Siddhartha-vinayaka P. Kane Saheb,
I am writing this open letter to you on a critical issue concerning the contents of the syllabus at your university. As per a communiqué of the university which must have had your (...)
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