From N.C.’s Writings
When we were young, our school-books said: “The sun never sets on the British Empire”—that meant whichever way you turned the globe, a piece of British Empire could be seen on the map. This week, in an extravaganza resembling a (...)
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Sun Sets on the British Empire
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Emergency Then; Emergency Now
7 July 2019, by Sagari ChhabraWhile yesterday’s Emergency saw the state take away an individual’s liberty, today, it is the non-state actors, fed on hate, who are taking away the life and liberty of a citizen of free India.
Just a little before the midnight of June 25, 1975, (...) -
A Tribute to Primla Loomba
7 July 2019, by Gargi ChakravarttyPrimla Loomba, popularly known as Pimmi, left us on June 24, 2019. She was outstanding as an educationist and a strong pillar of the women’s movement of our country. Though she may not have identified herself as a feminist, but her political (...) -
Hot Hot Place
7 July 2019India is now a hot hot place
In more ways than you know;
The sun bears down from above,
And Hindutva bubbles from below.
There is little inbetween—
Just despair or elation;
Some the heat incinerates,
Others like a hot hot nation.
The power and (...) -
‘We can’t turn Hindustan into Lynchistan’
30 June 2019, by SCEDITORIAL
In the midst of the intense gloom that has engulfed secular democrats of all hues of late following the return to power for the next five years of the present-day BJP run by the Narendra Modi-Amit Shah duo, the parliamentary (...) -
The GDP Growth Debate going Out of Hand
30 June 2019, by Arun KumarThe former Chief Economic Advisor, Dr Arvind Subramanian, has set the cat among the pigeons by coming out with a paper (referred to as AS below) showing that the Indian GDP growth has been over-estimated in the period 2011-12 to 2016-17 by 2.5 (...) -
US-Iran Stand-Off — How to Avoid a War
30 June 2019by Rajaram Panda
As if the North Korean issue where United States President Donald Trump burned much of midnight oil with words such as “fire and fury”, “totally destroy” flew with impunity only to be matched by “dotard”, “evil man” by the North (...) -
US Credibility dented in Iran Standoff
30 June 2019, by M K BhadrakumarThe US President Donald Trump’s reported decision abruptly to call off military strike against Iran which he’d previously ordered, highlights the growing complexity of the US-Iranian entanglement.
Indeed, it takes political courage to (...) -
The ‘Modi’fied India 2019
30 June 2019, by K.P. FabianAll of us in India, including the BJP, have been stunned by the unprecedented and unanticipated landslide victory of Modi who like a juggernaut swept across the electoral landscape smashing everything standing in its way. The Opposition has been (...) -
Reality and Fantasy
30 June 2019A family of five lives
in a small, dingy room
near the end of a blind alley.
The sunlight plays truant
from a slice of sky;
the air reeks of cow-dung,
filth from the gutter.
When night falls,
the old couple huddle
in one corner;
the daughter in (...)
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