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• Architect of India

  21 November 2016

  Dark tides roll around leaping forth gleefully
  to throw mud and slush
  at the towering Architect of India.
  The mud-slingers are there everywhere—in the press, media, social sites,
  howling foul about Nehruvian mistakes.
  Let them proclaim then, that Five Year plans were unpardonable mistakes. Oil refineries, steel plants,
  Space programmes were errors. AIR, IDPL, HAL, LIC, Railways, Barouni and Chittaranjan
  were blunders of the top order!
  Decades of tireless re-building (…)

• Obama Contributed to Donald Trump’s Triumph

  21 November 2016, by M K Bhadrakumar

  In the hurly-burly of the November 8 election in the United States, what has been largely overlooked is that in many ways the moral and political responsibility for the crushing defeat of the Democratic Party lies squarely with President Barack Obama.
  In America’s political history, seldom has America’s White working class voters abandoned the Democrats so decidedly as has happened today. Of course, there have been times such as when the southern Whites marched out with Alabama Governor (…)

• Trump triumphs

  21 November 2016, by Kuldip Nayar

  When the country’s mood is the Right, you cannot expect it to vote for Hillary Clinton who represents the Left-of-Centre if not the Left. Donald Trump’s victory is an assertion of the White who constitute nearly 63 per cent and still have the phobia of being a minority. It is an unfortunate thinking but one cannot write it off because that is what America is today.
  Once again, the thesis of isolation is coming to the fore. There have been a substantial number of people in America who (…)

• A Nascent Caste on the Horizon: the Judicial Dynasties

  21 November 2016

  by Kunal Ghosh
  During the Emergency of 1975 to 1977, called by then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, the Parliament passed laws for preventive detention of individuals and took the extreme step of suspending the Habeas Corpus. Even in 1962, during the days of the Chinese invasion in North-East India, Prime Minister Nehru’s government had promulgated an ordinance called the Defence of India Rules for preventive detention. But there was no legislation suspending Habeas Corpus. The 1975 law was (…)

• Prime Minister Modi’s Black Money Magic

  21 November 2016

  by M.C. Pindwal
  The demonetisation of Indian currency, as announced by PM Modi at 8 pm on November 8, 2016 in his address to the nation, has no solid basis. It is being argued from the government’s side that demonetisation of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 currency notes was necessary due to huge duplication in circulation upto 80 per cent. However, this is not true. No doubt these were in circulation but it is the ever increasing black money, certainly a dangerous portent to the Indian economy, that (…)

• Why the Two Greatest Indians were Denied Nobel

  21 November 2016

  by Praveen Davar
  ‘Generations to come will scarcely believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth.’ So said Albert Einstein on Mahatma Gandhi soon after his assassination on January 30, 1948. Renowned historian Romain Rolland called Gandhi the ‘greatest Indian after Buddha and the greatest human being after Christ’. If Gandhi was the greatest Indian, Jawaharlal Nehru, according to Dr S. Radhakrishnan, was the greatest Indian after the Mahatma. Dr (…)

• Legacy of Tipu Sultan

  21 November 2016

  by S.N. Sahu and Sandip Mesra
  The Government of Karnataka is celebrating Tipu jayanti. Well known and acclaimed as Tipu Sultan in history, he was a renowned warrior who courted controversy and at the same time commanded attention and admiration from scholars and historians for his manifold initiatives, innovations and, above all, accomplishments. His bravery in fighting against the British forces to save his beloved Mysore and his supreme sacrifice in laying down his life for that cause (…)

• Triumph for Family Bonding

  21 November 2016

  COMMUNICATION
  The unexpected win of Donald Trump in the US Presidential election is a blessing in disguise for a major reason. Trump, a rabid nationalist reposing faith in America for the Americans only, may adversely impact the worldwide outsourcing business of the American companies. This has robbed the Americans to get enough jobs and the youth of the less developed world to access the same. Millions of Indian men and women are now working in the outsourcing business. Their future might (…)

• The Anti-National Role of RSS

  21 November 2016, by Sandeep Pandey

  The most despicable action due to the growth of the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh’s ideology was the killing of Mahatma Gandhi. If there is one individual with whom people associate India’s identity all over the world it is Gandhi. Gandhi is a source of inspiration for many struggles globally where the marginalised fight against the oppressor and lately the environ-mental movements. The RSS will never be able to wash away this sin irrespective of howsoever Narendra Modi may try to use him as a (…)

• Artists do not die because the world needs art; Arakkal gave us pleasure by painting pain

  21 November 2016, by T J S George

  IMPRESSIONS
  It is not for nothing that every Rajnikant movie is released with uproarious publicity brouhaha, from milk abhishekam of oversize portraits to trailers exploding with the hero’s superman feats. Marketing is everything. For film folk, it is the magic line between life and death. But the principle behind it applies to writers, artists and musicians as well.
  M.F. Husain became India’s most famous artist by being in the news always. He was of course one of our best. But so was (…)