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Bapu
28 January 2019January 30 this year marks the seventyfirst anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination. On this occasion we remember the Father of the Nation by reproducing the following piece by Jawaharlal Nehru written shortly after Gandhiji’s departure. (...) -
My dreams too are endless
28 January 2019My mind knows no fatigue,
Yet the withered wailing of the boughs,
Yet the numb cold on plains and meadows,
And unceasing the sky’s tears.
Life is neck-craned in expectation,
Expectation or is it a complex tune!
Carbon reddness in the blue of (...) -
Netaji on Our Freedom Struggle and India after Independence
28 January 2019On the occasion of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s 122nd birth anniversary on January 23 this year, we are carrying the following excerpts from Netaji’s speeches and writings while remembering that stalwart of our freedom struggle.
This is Subhas (...) -
Measuring the Colossus
28 January 2019, by Nikhil ChakravarttyFROM N.C.’S WRITINGS
The Republic of India is now thirty-eight years old. It has weathered many a storm and has come to be recognised as a functioning democracy. The tremendous interest of the voter to exercise his right to vote is taken as (...) -
The Third Battle of Panipat: Let us examine its True Impact dispassionately
28 January 2019by Basudev Mazumdar
BJP President Amit Shah has again got his history wrong. While inaugurating the BJP’s national convention recently on January 11, 2019 in New Delhi for giving a push to poll preparedness, he compared the ensuing Lok Sabha (...) -
Survival Crisis and Increasing Relevance of Gandhiji’s Ideas for Resolving this Crisis
28 January 2019by Bharat Dogra
I Introduction
There is a growing realisation that our world is increasingly faced with a survival crisis in the sense that the very life-nurturing conditions of our planet, which made such amazing biodiversity possible on earth, (...) -
Crossing the Constitutional Line on the Eve of Republic Day
28 January 2019, by Badri RainaUntil a week or so ago, the chief fare on the nationalist menu was clearly the Ram Mandir. Till the Kumbh took its place.
A frenetic onslaught on the nation’s attention was in evidence, as diverse recipes for a quick execution of the building of (...) -
Specifics
28 January 2019The other day I drafted a poem
and showed it to a friend.
He said: don’t generalise, be specific.
I started chronicling the specifics:
local bullying, cruel ragging,
purchasable degrees,
greased-palm delivered jobs,
adulterated sustenance (...) -
Why Farmers and Farm Workers are demanding Special Session of Parliament
28 January 2019by Gopal Krishna
Inspired by the Long March of Maharashtra farmers and farm workers, that is, the astute practitioners of democracy who walked from Nashik to Mumbai to encircle the State Legislative Assembly in Mumbai in March 2018, this year’s (...) -
Bringing Farmers to the Centre-stage
28 January 2019by Suranjita Ray
The 2019 Lok Sabha elections, to be held in a few months from now, has compelled almost all the political parties not to miss the opportunity to promise fulfilling the demands of protesting farmers. Of the various demands the (...)
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