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Value System Changes Needed for a Protective World
17 February 2019, by Bharat DograWhile most people in our increasingly troubled world are too absorbed in struggles and problems of daily life to find much time for larger issues, there is nevertheless growing realisation that several serious problems are fast getting out of (...) -
Russia-Ukraine: Brotherly Ties Turning into Hostilities. How and Why?
17 February 2019by R.G. Gidadhubli
Russia and Ukraine were brotherly Slavic states with close, cordial and consistent social, economic and political relations for centuries. They were also major economically and strategically powerful Republics of the former (...) -
Trump’s Pick of Strong Men
17 February 2019Trump likes strong leadership,
But only from the Right;
When it comes to Leftwing dictators,
Trump turns democrat.
The man who ordered dismemberment
Of a critical journalist—
Being friendly with oil and investment—
Tops Trump’s approval list.
But (...) -
Triple Talaaq Bill: Limits, Ambiguities and Politics
17 February 2019by Ananya Pathak
The Opposition stood in stark condemnation, as the Triple Talaaq Bill came to be passed in the Lok Sabha on Thursday, January 3, 2019. The Bill seeks to criminalise the practice of instant triple talaaq among Muslims. Under the (...) -
Rising Roar of Faux Faith in Poll-bound India
17 February 2019by L.K. Sharma
If you hear the rising roar of faith, it is election-time in India. Belief in God is stronger than any political belief. Faith rushes to fill the ideological vacuum and goes on to cleanse politics of the residual ideological (...) -
In the Aftermath
17 February 2019, by SCThe mosque was eloquent History,
Everything else was shrouded in mythology.
Yet they, under the spell of fiery oratory,
Chose to chase the mirage of a myth,
Pull down the building
And build hatred in their hearts.
When I, a citizen of this vast (...) -
Whirligig Politics
10 February 2019, by SCEDITORIAL
One had known for quite sometime that the 2019 Lok Sabha elections would witness a no-holds-barred campaign with PM Narendra Modi firmly resolved to stay on in power and the combined Opposition determined to oust him from the office he (...) -
Mamata emerges as a Focal Point of the National Opposition
10 February 2019by Nityananda Ghosh
The sordid drama that started unfolding with a carload of CBI officials appearing out of the blue in front of the Kolkata Police Commissioner’s residence in the city on February 3, 2019, with the attempt to barge into the (...) -
Street-fighter Mamata
10 February 2019, by Humra QuraishiMUSINGS
Mamata Banerjee is indeed a fighter. The latest political developments taking off from West Bengal, where she came up with that piercing shrill cry to halt the BJP-RSS moves, is only a continuation of her determined effort to keep the (...) -
Why North-East Citizens Rebel
10 February 2019, by T J S GeorgeIMPRESSIONS
Imagine all South Indian States uniting on a platform of ethnic difference from the North, as C.N. Annadurai briefly contemplated once upon a time. Something similar is happening in the North-East. Ethnically, culturally and (...)
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