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• Studentship, Politics and Youth Culture

  29 September 2018, by Avijit Pathak

  As a teacher, I keep engaging with the young minds; and I do believe that higher education is not merely for acquiring the cognitive and technical skills for fetching lucrative jobs; it ought to generate self-reflexivity, critical thinking and intense participatory urge to create a better world. No wonder, politics—politics as an awareness of the discourse of power, or politics as a mode of collective practice for intervening in the way social/cultural/economic resources are distributed in (…)

• Remembering Shankar Guha Niyogi on his Death Anniversary

  29 September 2018, by Bharat Dogra

  Shankar Guha Niyogi was assassinated on September 28, 1991 when he was just 48, but even at this young age he had become a legendary figure. While he was adored as brother and son by the iron ore miners and other workers of Chhattisgarh to whom he devoted his entire life, at a wider level he became perhaps the most talked about example of someone who could link trade union struggles to wider issues like struggles of surrounding peasantry, social reform, workers’ own health programme, (…)

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  Mohan Bhagwat’s Frank Talk

  25 September 2018, by SC

  EDITORIAL
  Long years ago in 1991, the then Prime Minister, Chandra Shekhar, was asked at a press conference in New Delhi if he sensed the danger of a Hindu Rashtra in pluralist and secular democratic India. Chandra Shekhar brushed aside the threat with characteristic flourish, saying that if the regular assemblage of sadhus and sants at kumbh melas did not turn India into a Hindu Rashtra, such a prospect was remote in the near future. Even if the then PM’s assurance in this regard left the (…)

• Rafale Arithmetic: 126 Versus 36

  25 September 2018, by S G Vombatkere

  The ongoing Dassault Rafale deal point and counterpoint between political parties is a given, each trying to prove that the other is corrupt, when there is no need whatsoever for proof, at least in the public eye. Typically a case of the

• A Coup that Awaits the Daring

  25 September 2018, by T J S George

  There is a strategic political coup that Rahul Gandhi can execute, and thereby transform the entire landscape of the 2019 elections. Routine politicking won’t do in the present climate because Narendra Modi’s oratorical ability to attract mass attention is unrivalled and his party has the advantage of being in power. It will be foolish to see 2019 as a Modi-versus- Rahul test. The Congress should understand this unusual situation and take unusual steps to meet the challenge.
  Rahul can (…)

• Humane Faces of Kerala Flood

  25 September 2018

  by Chandrasekhar Bhattacharjee
  Kerala,

• Upstairs, Downstairs

  25 September 2018, by Badri Raina

  When Mr Mallya left town, He claims to have told the Minister he was leaving. Mallya is a gentleman from toe to crown, And the Minister does not seem to be grieving.
  While the meek are full of moral rage, And the media of butter upon the bread, The high and mighty play upon a stage Where all is always securely well-fed.
  When democracy happens at the vote The canny feed us newspeak and crumbs. We rave and rant in shrill, righteous note, Then settle back among the familiar dumps.
  Thus (…)

• The Changing Alignments

  25 September 2018, by Nikhil Chakravartty

  From N.C.’s Writings
  The prospect of a new configuration inside the Janata Pary has been advanced by the dramatic developments in UP. It is not just a change of incumbent for the post of Chief Minister that took place with Banarsi Das taking over from Ram Naresh Yadav, but an entirely new scenario for Indian politics with possibi-lities which only the blind can ignore.
  Soon after the Janata came to power in 1977, the key development within it was the axis formed between the Jana Sangh (…)

• Women Spearhead 2019 Challenge To Modi

  25 September 2018, by Mahendra Ved

  Move over ambitious, egotist men

• Russia Promotes unified Kurdish Platform

  25 September 2018, by M K Bhadrakumar

  A new organisation was founded in Moscow on August 4 known as the International Federation of Kurdish Communities. It is a significant development against the backdrop of the surge of the Kurdish problem. Kurds inhabit several countries in a wide arc from Turkey across the northern tier of the Middle East to the Caucasus and Central Asia.
  The new organisation is headed by Mirzoyev Knyaz Ibragimovich, a distinguished Kazakh intellectual of Armenian Kurdish origin