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• Lynching of Psyches!

  5 August 2017, by Humra Quraishi

  MUSINGS
  A few years back, when I had first heard a well-known Delhi University professor talk in an open forum of the twisted history taught in the RSS-run schools, it was more than shocking as she had actually read out several of the communally provocative passages from those books... poison dripping from each one of those sentences, enough to inculcate hatred in young minds for the other—the Muslims of the country.
  Now, of course, there seems a well-planned strategy to change the very (…)

• Laloo is a Natural Target in the Fight against Corruption, but the Problem is Larger. All Parties are Guilty

  5 August 2017, by T J S George

  IMPRESSIONS
  Mention corruption, and the names of some politicians jump out like registered trademarks. Laloo Prasad Yadav is right when he says that the BJP Government is hunting him for political reasons. The government has indeed been using the CBI to hunt its opponents on a selective basis. But it is able to play politics of revenge because facts are there to exploit. Laloo has been a synonym for corruption in unique ways—the only leader who breaks laws with defiance and daring.
  When (…)

• Hindi Spread requires Patience

  5 August 2017, by Kuldip Nayar

  Whenever a State language wants to spread itself to the national sphere, it naturally meets with some resistance. The limits of both are delineated. One is confined to the State while the other has the entire country for its spread.
  The chauvinists in States have not understood it or at least not in the manner it should be. There is no competition. One is regional and the other is national. That Hindi is the national language was decided by the Constituent Assembly. The Parliamentary (…)

• The Epidemic of Lynching: It’s a crying shame on humanity

  5 August 2017

  by M.A. Sofi
  Witness the pall of gloom that has enveloped the vale of Kashmir over a long period of time and which of late has assumed staggering proportions as a result of unprecedented violence having been unleashed there following innumerable cases of state brutalities being visited upon young and old Kashmiris alike, regardless of their involvement in acts of revolt against aggression. Notwithstanding that, there are unmistakable signs writ large all over the place that tell us that (…)

• Nazism and Corporate Power

  5 August 2017

  by Arup Kumar Sen
  Very recently, I chanced upon a book, IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance between Nazi Germany and America’s Most Powerful Corporation, written by Edwin Black (Crown Books, New York, 2001). The book “tells the story of IBM’s conscious involvement...in the Holocaust, as well as its involvement in the Nazi war machine that murdered millions of others throughout Europe”. The book was born out of a moral quest. The author’s parents were Holocaust survivors, uprooted (…)

• On Continuing Caste Violence in Saharanpur, UP - People’s Alliance for Democracy and Secularism’s Public Statement

  5 August 2017

  DOCUMENT
  The following is a statement issued by the Convener of the People’s Alliance for Democracy and Secularism (PADS), Battini Rao.
  Fiftyfive Dalit houses were burnt down during the afternoon of May 5 in Shabbirpur village of Saharanpur in northern UP. The attackers belonged to the dominant Rajput community of the area. They were armed with swords, spears, and lathis, and numbered about three thousand. Several other houses were looted, and fifteen motorcycles were burnt. Twelve (…)

• Global Times Lashes out at India: Doval visit won’t sway China over border standoff

  5 August 2017

  The following is a recent editorial that appeared in China’s official organ, Global Times (July 25, 2017), bringing out its no-holds-barred attack on India over the Doklam standoff.
  India’s National Security Adviser Ajit Doval is to visit China for the annual BRICS National Security Advisers’ meeting this week. As Doval is believed to be one of the main schemers behind the current border standoff between Chinese and Indian troops, the Indian media is pinning high hopes on the trip to (…)

• Anguish, not Anger / Riding the Tiger

  5 August 2017, by Nikhil Chakravartty

  From N.C.’s Writings
  Anguish, not Anger
  The countdown for a national crisis of fearsome dimension has begun. The build-up of a nationwide communal conflict could be discerned, as one finds that the feverish activity for the building of the Ram temple at Ayodhya is having its repercussions in distant Thiruva-nanthapuram where the army has had to undertake flag march.
  The onset of the crisis was evident on July 18 when at the stroke of midnight, the marathon session of the National (…)

• Indo-Israel Strategic Relations within the framework of Hindutva Philosophy

  5 August 2017

  by Arun Srivastava
  Two remarks by the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, are yet to make any significant sense: First, the marriage between Israel and India was made in heaven. Benjamin did not elaborate the nature of the marriage, which is the male partner, and whether it could be consummated. His second remark was more hilarious but important. Exhilarated to have Narendra Modi amidst his people, Netanyahu said; “We’ve waited for you 70 years.”
  Undoubtedly Modi has been the (…)

• India-Israel Relations

  5 August 2017, by Eduardo Faleiro

  Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Israel from July 4 to 6. Modi is the first ever Indian Prime Minister to visit Israel. Indo-Israeli relations have witnessed a sharp upswing since the present government came to power and there has been an unprecedented level of bilateral visits by senior Ministers from India to Israel and vice-versa.
  The Israel-Palestine conflict is an unresolved issue of international politics dating from the end of the First World War. Palestine was a part of the (…)