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• Midnight Raids by Security Forces: A Wild Threat among Youth in Kashmir

  19 October 2018

  by Aijaz Ahmad Turrey and Tajamul Maqbool
  Life in the Kashmir Valley, especially South Kashmir, has become hell for residents on account of increasing and continued nocturnal raids by the Indian security forces, forcing people to remain wide-awake during nights to foil arrest bids. The raids were earlier limited to family members of active Hizb-ul-Mujahideen and other militant groups. But nowadays no one is free from this dreadful grip conducted by Jammu and Kashmir Police, the Army’s (…)

• CPI-M not a party of India, but of Kerala only

  19 October 2018

  by Arun Srivastava
  The Tripura election was a big setback This has been the confession of the General Secretary of the CPI-M, Sitaram Yechury, just at the time his political line of having understanding with the Congress was being challenged by his colleague, Prakash Karat. True enough, Karat should have taken the lesson from the BJP how it succeeded in building a total anti-Left Front.
  The Marxists may allege that they made all sorts of unscrupulous deals with all, including tribal (…)

• Rafale Three

  19 October 2018

  Internal documents are disloyal things, They spill the crony beans; Macron must these documents burn For more morsels of our means.
  When we say government to government, We mean boss to boss; And any boss worth his politic salt Knows well his gain or loss.
  They would have us investigate The “murky” goings-on; But what good Hindu may wish to see Us totter on our throne.
  Hence for natonal purposes We must ride Rafale, However they pin our perfidies, Or twist our tell-all tail.
  Badri Raina

• Lohia and Two Segregations of Caste and Sex

  19 October 2018

  by Vivek Kumar Srivastava
  The following article has been written and is being published on the fiftyfirst death anniversary of the Dr Rammohar Lohia (March 23, 1910-October 12, 1967)
  Gandhi and Ambedkar are usually respected as major thinkers in modern times who attempted to reform the caste system in India in their own ways, but Rammanohar Lohia was also a great contributor to the theory of annihilation of caste. He analysed the Indian caste system from a socialistic framework and (…)

• Where is Vivekananda’s India?

  19 October 2018, by T J S George

  IMPRESSIONS
  Here is the noblest summing up of civilisational values by an Indian: “I am proud to belong to a religion which has taught the world both tolerance and universal acceptance. We believe not only in universal toleration, but we accept all religions as true. I am proud to belong to a nation which has sheltered the persecuted and the refugees of all religions and all nations of the earth... Sectarianism, bigotry and its horrible descendant, fanaticism, have long possessed this (…)

• JP: Some Reflections

  19 October 2018, by Nikhil Chakravartty

  From N.C.’s Writings
  by Analyst
  On the occasion of Jayaprakash Narayan’s 116th birth anniversary on October 11, 2017 we are carrying the following piece written by N.C. under the pseudonym ‘Analyst’ after JP passed away on October 8, 1979.
  Jayaprakash Narayan has carried with him fulsome tributes from all political circles—his adherents and admirers, his adversaries and detractors. A life of ups and downs of heroic times and despairing moments. Living beyond the Psalmist’s assigned (…)

• What Invasion has Shown Up • Need for World Publicity

  19 October 2018, by Nikhil Chakravartty

  October 20 this year marks the fiftysixth anniversary of the Chinese aggression on India. On this occasion we are carrying N.C.’s ‘New Delhi Skyline’ published in Mainstream seven days after the invasion.
  A fresh appraisal of values has overtaken New Delhi with the shock of the massive Chinese aggression on the far-flung frontier from Ladakh to NEFA.
  In the course of a single week, the nation faced the dangerous implications of a militarily powerful neighbour indulging in cold-blooded (…)

• In the Context . . .

  19 October 2018

  by Sardar Amjad Ali
  With the 2019 parliamentary elections approaching, speculations over the electoral prospects of different political parties are getting more intense.
  The ‘Journo-Mastradamus’ of our time is leaving no stone unturned in speculations as to who will get most of the 542 seats in the Lok Sabha to form the next government.
  Any government overtly running with the circuitous motive and clandestine process helps not only to break the popular unity and breed a conducive (…)

• For a Better Comprehension of the Indian Federation Today

  19 October 2018

  BOOK REVIEW
  by Rajeev Ranjan Sinha
  Indian Federalism: Emerging Issues by S.K. Jain (ed.); Kalpaz Publications, New Delhi; 2017; 309 pp.; Price: Rs 900. ISBN: 978-93-5128-263-1
  Federalism is best understood as a method of promoting self-rule and shared rule and of balancing the interest of a nation with that of a region. A federal system is the constitutional arrangement that gives federalism its institutional form. India’s federal democracy has developed through successive phases of (…)

• Liberal Education and Crisis in Society

  19 October 2018

  by Shushwi Ke
  The present crisis in society is the result of systemic failure of the sites of learning in all branches. The Indian education system, either the schooling or higher education, has taken the form of utmost utilitarian or instrumental character. At a time when societal change and transformation is being witnessed at the surface level, the perception of society towards education has dramatically changed. The aspiration of citizens, particularly the ‘new middle class’, has taken (…)