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• Historical Novel of Fascinating Sweep

  15 July 2018

  BOOK REVIEW
  by Alok Sinha
  Dangerous Dispatches by Achala Moulik; published in 2016 by National Book Trust, India; pages 379; Price: Rs 410.
  A gripping historical novel, written by an Indian, and yet faraway from the 21st century battles of Growth versus Development, of Secularism versus Hindutva et al. Full of romances and intrigues woven around quickly developing international events rewriting national boundaries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia from the last quarter of the 20th (…)

• What Option is there before India and Pakistan other than Friendship and Peace?

  15 July 2018, by Sandeep Pandey

  The India-Pakistan Friendship and Peace March from Ahmedabad to Nada Bet during June 19 to 29, 2018 concluded successfully even though the Ahmedabad Police detained the marchers for about three hours at the beginning as soon as it started from Gandhi Ashram and the Border Security Force didn’t give permission to the march at the fag end from Nadeshwari Mata Mandir to the border, a distance of 25 km. Hence the total distance of this march on foot was curtailed to about 250 km. From Gandhi (…)

• On Goa Statehood Day

  15 July 2018, by Eduardo Faleiro

  On May 30 we celebrated the Goa Statehood Day. Goa was liberated from the colonial rule in December 1961. After liberation a major controversy arose as to whether it should remain a separate territory or should merge into a neighbouring State, Maharashtra or Mysore. In 1967, an opinion poll was held, the only such referendum in independent India. It decided that Goa, Daman and Diu should remain a separate entity with the status of a Union Territory. Thereafter all the three major political (…)

• On Critical Pedagogy: ‘Teaching’ at the Margins

  15 July 2018

  by Murzban Jal and Jyoti Bawane
  The materialist doctrine that people are products of circumstances and upbringing, and therefore, changed people are products of other circumstances and changed upbringing, forgets that it is people that change circumstances and that the educator himself needs educating. Hence, this doctrine necessarily arrives at dividing society into two parts, of which one is superior to society (Robert Owen, for example). The coincidence of the changing of circumstances (…)

• Editors Guild Condemns the FIR against Deputy Editor of Mathrubhumi

  15 July 2018

  The attention of the Editors Guild of India has been drawn to the recent case of the Kollam Police in Kerala registering an FIR against Mr. Venu Balakrishnan, Deputy Editor and Anchor of Mathrubhumi News Television channel. This was following a complaint filed by local leaders of DYFI, the youth wing of the ruling CPI-M, under Sec. 153 A of IPC for initiating a discussion on the channel on an incident involving the torture of a young Muslim by the police and the ruckus in the State Assembly (…)

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  SC Upholds People’s Will

  9 July 2018, by SC

  EDITORIAL
  Yesterday’s verdict of the country’s Apex Court on the ongoing tussle between the Lt Governor of Delhi and Delhi Government is of extraordinary significance. As has been underscored by The Indian Express while analysing the verdict, there are two major points in the judgment of the five-judge Bench headed by the Chief Justice of India: “one, the ultimate legitimacy, and the consequent responsibility to exercise power on behalf of the people, lies with the elected legislature and (…)

• Emergency, Indira Gandhi and RSS

  9 July 2018

  by L.S. Hardenia
  I do not hold any brief for Indira Gandhi as far as her decision to impose Emergency is concerned. There is no doubt that the Emergency period will be recorded as a black chapter in the democratic history of the country. But certainly I have every reason to differ with Arun Jaitely when he compares Indira Gandhi with Hitler.
  Hitler perhaps was the cruellest ruler in the history of mankind. Besides destroying all the democratic institutions of Germany, which had a (…)

• Trump Riding High and Set to Roll the Dice for a Summit with Putin

  9 July 2018, by M K Bhadrakumar

  If the Trump White House had let it be known a couple of months ago that it was working with the Kremlin to schedule a summit meeting between the two Presidents, all hell would have broken loose in the Washington Beltway. But that isn’t happening. There is an eerie calm in Washington, as if Trump’s detractors have run out of ammunition.
  What explains it? First, the fizz seems to have gone out of the Russia collusion theory. Robert Mueller could keep uncovering crimes in American public (…)

• Singapore Summit on North Korea’s Nuclear Issue

  9 July 2018

  by Sudhakar Vaddi
  Since almost seventy long years, the Korean Peninsula is a ground for a confrontation between the North Korea officially the Demo-cratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) and the United States (US). This alone made the first ever US-North Korea peace summit talks, held in Singapore on June 12, 2018, significent. The diplomatic stage for the Singapore summit was prepared through the sequence of events starting from the Winter Olympic Games in South Korea officially the (…)

• Exposing the Facade of Neo-liberal Politics of the BJP

  9 July 2018

  by Arun Srivastava
  Oblivious of the changing contour and character of Dalit politics, the RSS and its front organisations continue to pursue their old strategy of insolently denigrating the Dalits. That the members of the Sangh Parivar do not nurse the sense of respect towards the Dalits is evident in their refusal to subscribe to the utterances of Prime Minister Narendra Modi that Dalits are an integral part of the Hindu society and they should be respected.
  Reluctance of the cadres and (…)