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• Unwarranted Censure!

  9 August 2010, by D. Bandyopadhyay

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  T.J.S. George’s vitriolic vitueeration against Mamata Banerjee as the Union Railway Minister (in his “Railways: Conspiring Against The People”, Mainstream, July 31, 2010), reflects his prejudice against her. He seems to be totally oblivious of the ugly ground realities of lethal toxicity created by the ruling CPI-M to cling on to power by means more foul than fair. The Indian Railways has route kilometre of over 65,000 km. It runs around 14,000 trains every day. It carries (…)

• Burma: India’s Betrayal of the Democratic Struggle

  9 August 2010, by Surendra Mohan

  The ethos of the Indian independence struggle was built around the concepts of human rights for all, freedom of all colonial peoples and secular plural democratic polity. This ethos guided India’s foreign policy for several decades, and India stood firmly in support of anti-colonial movements, struggles against authoritarian regimes and establishment of human dignity. Her identification with the Palestinians’ aspirations for liberation and self-rule in their land, anti-apartheid struggle in (…)

• Kashmir: Act Now before it is Too Late

  9 August 2010, by Zafarul-Islam Khan

  The following is a piece written on August 2, 2010 by the editor of The Milli Gazette. It is being reproduced from the publication for the benefit of our readers as it brings out a specific viewpoint that is held by a large section of the populace in the Kashmir Valley and hence cannot be ignored or brushed aside. —Editor
  For the last two months only bullets are talking in Kashmir. Dozens of lives, mostly school-going young men and women, have succumbed to the bullets fired by the security (…)

• K.M. Mathew Is No More

  9 August 2010

  One of the sturdy pillars of Indian journalism, K.M. Mathew, 93, Chief Editor of the mass-circulation Malayalam newspaper Malayala Manorama, is no more. He passed away at his residence in Kottayam on August 1, 2010.
  Under K.M. Mathew’s stewardship, Malayala Manorama embarked on a journey of expansion and modernisation that changed the face of newspapers in Malayalam. He has been aptly described as a “dynamic and visionary journalist” by President Pratibha Patil.
  Besides the President, (…)

• Silencing the Moderate Voice in Balochistan

  25 July 2010, by Rashed Rahman

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• Sri Lanka at Peace, But....

  25 July 2010, by Apratim Mukarji

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• Pracharak as Terrorist—On the Bhasmasur of Hindutva Terror

  25 July 2010, by Subhash Gatade

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  Hindu mythology with its plethora of gods and goddesses (which, according to a conservative estimate, numbers around 330 millions or 33 crores) has a number of stories supposedly to show the human face of the almighty. One such story talks of the creation of a demon called Bhasmasur by one of the gods himself. The said demon had the unique power of turning everything into ash if he could touch anybody’s head. The story goes that after ‘conquering’ the world the demon tries to attack his (…)

• The Beautiful Valley on the Boil

  25 July 2010, by Surendra Mohan

  Curfew continues in the cities of Srinagar, Baramullah, Sopore and Anantnag, in the Kashmir Valley and during the last ten days, there has been no improvement in the maintenance of law and order. On July 6, the Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah, visited Anantnag and admitted that three young boys had been shot dead by the security forces when they were chased by the CRPF to their homes. He promised an enquiry within 24 hours. During the month of June, several young persons were killed by the (…)

• Hindutva, Article 370 and J&K Imbroglio

  25 July 2010, by Bilal Ahmad Ganai

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• From Cicero to Sushma (via Bellary)

  25 July 2010, by T J S George

  Normal 0 0 1 573 3271 27 6 4017 11.773 0 0 0 Cicero was a Roman orator and statesman of the 1st century BC whose writings deeply influenced modern thought. He was once retained by the Sicilians to prosecute the Governor of Sicily, C. Verres, who had become unbearably corrupt and cruel. Cicero prepared the first of what was to be a six-part chargesheet against the Governor, analysing the evils of greedy administrators. That first part was so powerful in its logic that (…)