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• Russia’s ’Vostok 2018’ Military Exercises ’ Putin’s Show Of Strength?

  25 September 2018

  by R.G. Gidadhubli
  On August 28, 2018 the Russian Government announced that the ’Vostok-2018’ (East-2018) military exercises will be carried out from September 11 to 15, 2018. These exercises will be held in Russia’s Central and Eastern Military districts, in southern Siberia, and the Far East. In fact this will be a major military drill to take place in Russia since 1981. This was corrobo-rated by Russia’s Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu who declared that this would be the biggest military (…)

• JNUSU Elections of 2018: National Defeat of Fascist Forces or Another Optical Illusion

  25 September 2018

  by Rushda Siddiqui
  The Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ union elections of 2018 are over. The results are in and the country is witnessing something extremely historic. For the first time in the history of the JNU have elections been marred by days of drama and violence, and the country, particularly the former student community, is busy amalging the implications of the elections and the results. Now the issues facing the student are: how important were the elections and to what (…)

• Do Not Say ’Dalit’, For It Is Too Real

  25 September 2018, by Badri Raina

  It is no less than a pyrrhic historical atrocity to want to eliminate the reality of a whole section of living people by refusing them the right to call themselves what they wish.
  It is understandable that if and when asked, any court in the land would say official records should use the nomenclature

• On Unmarked Graves in the Kashmir Valley

  25 September 2018, by Humra Quraishi

  MUSINGS
  Last weekend one news report hit to such an extent that I read it more than once and it also dragged along a significant offshoot.
  Well, first the news report of Mexican investigators finding a mass grave in the state of Veracruz that contained 166 human skulls. In fact, last March, there was a similar news report of Mexican investigators finding another mass grave in the state of Veracruz where 250 human heads were found buried.
  And with this in the backdrop, I sat wondering (…)

• A Glimpse of State of Academics in Indian Universities

  25 September 2018

  by Harish C. Sharma
  I have come across an article in the recent issue of EPW on Agyeya’s Shekhar Ek Jeevni.It is a profound understanding of Western influences on Agyeya’s novel. It shows the commentator’s deep understanding of both Western philosophies and their impact on Agyeya’s mind and expression. The author in reference has worked on the writings of Agyeya who was, no doubt, first among the Indian writers deeply influenced by the Western literary aesthetics, fiction, poetry, (…)

• The Global Economy and the Trade War

  25 September 2018

  by Monaem Sarkar
  The trade war between the United States and its trading partners has created a number of downside risks for the global economy. So how is the global economy faring? How will the retaliatory tariffs imposed by the United States and China, among others, affect the global economy? These are questions that have been raised in recent policy discussions around the globe.
  The US economy is on course to post another strong showing in 2018. The US real Gross Domestic Product (…)

• Evaluating India’s New Neighbourhood Policy

  25 September 2018

  by Duryodhan Nahak
  Over the last four years, in a host of writings India’s new neighbourhood policy or neighbours first appears to be the dominant theme. Mean-while, India’s neighbourhood policy is essentially a continuity and change since the first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, who laid the edifice of Indian foreign policy in the initial years of India’s independence. Indeed, Narendra Modi, the Prime Minister-designate, surprised many by inviting all the SAARC leaders, particularly (…)

• Legal Rights of Farmers under the Farmers Right to Guaranteed Remunerative MSP for Agricultural Commodities Bill, 2018

  25 September 2018

  by Shubham Kumar and Apurva Singh

• India in Peril

  25 September 2018, by Samit Kar

  The word

• On the recently concluded two-by-two Indo-US Defence Deal

  25 September 2018, by Ashok Parthasarathi

  The editorial on the recently concluded Defence Deal with the USA [