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• Lebensborn of India: Fair, Tall, Intelligent ‘Customised baby’= Lebensborn RSS in Footprints of Fascist ’Superman’ Project}

  17 June 2017, by A K Biswas

  A significant announcement in an English national daily recently to the effect that the ”RSS wing has a prescription for fair, tall ‘custo-mised’ babies”1 is a startling disclosure, com-parable to a secret project undertaken by the Nazi regime in Germany under the Fuehrer, Adolf Hitler. This has no parallel with the potential to provoke craze in millions of Indian hearts at home and abroad. According to the Hindutva outfit’s subsidiary Arogya Bharati, its health wing, a woman could deliver (…)

• Request for bringing back the Mortal Remains of Bahadur Shah Zafar

  17 June 2017

  The following letter, sent to the President, Pranab Mukherjee, from the General Secretary of the Socialist Party (India), Dr Prem Singh, on May 4, 2013, has been resent by Dr Prem Singh, who is now the President of the Socialist Party (India), on May 10, 2017 precisely four years after the first letter in 2013.
  His Excellency
  Shri Pranab Mukherjee
  President of India
  Sub.: Request to bring back the mortal remains of Bahadur Shah Zafar
  Most Respected Sir,
  The Socialist Party would (…)

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  Ominous Signals

  10 June 2017, by SC

  EDITORIAL
  The Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, returned from a trip to major countries of Europe—Germany, Spain, Russia and France—last week and has left for Astana (Kazakhstan) today to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation’s summit.
  The European visit was overdue and Modi did well to explore new avenues of cooperation with Germany while sustaining and cementing India’s strategic partnerships with Russia and France.
  The Indian Express, while analysing Modi’s European visit, has (…)

• The Barricades and Battlelines in Kashmir

  10 June 2017, by Badri Raina

  Three years into the coalition government in Jammu and Kashmir, the battlelines between the partners seem now clearly drawn. A sort of Zionist discourse seems afloat, which cautions that the governments now in the saddle both at the Centre and in the State are “different” (Ram Madhav) and the Valley must learn to know its proper place. Indeed, parts of the Valley are coming to be conceived as a sort of West Bank and some downtown areas as India’s own Gaza Strip. Mehbooba Mufti seems cast in (…)

• Start Dialogue in Kashmir

  10 June 2017

  by S. Sudhakar Reddy
  Kashmir is again in the news. Actually it is always in the news. Mainstream media is generally giving the official version, except in exceptional cases. Kashmir is really burning. The Kashmiri people are being branded as perma-nent agitators. Generations of Kashmiris are habituated to this situation. The Srinagar by-election exposed the hollowness of the adminis-tration’s claims that everything is normal except in some pockets. Only seven per cent of people voted in (…)

• Is Russian-Indian Relationship Really in Disrepair?

  10 June 2017, by M K Bhadrakumar

  The discourses in the Indian media over Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Russia within the framework of the annual summit meetings between the two leaderships have taken a bizarre turn. Modi is being caricatured as something of a car mechanic travelling to St. Petersburg with his tool kit to “repair” the India-Russia relationship.
  Even more bizarre is that the guys in Carnegie India and Brookings India have been in the forefront of the lamentations over the state of affairs in (…)

• St Petersburg Summit: Boosting Indo-Russian Economic Cooperation

  10 June 2017, by Arun Mohanty

  The Indo-Russian annual summit, taking place alternatively in each other’s capital, was this time held in St Petersburg, the northern capital of Russia and President Vladimir Putin’s home town. This is the first time when an Indo-Russian annual summit was held in summer, as India for the first time was invited to the St Petersburg International Economic Forum as the guest of honour. The St Petersburg Economic Forum, Russia’s most prestigious business platform, widely regarded as the Davos of (…)

• Brezhnev in India / Superpower with a Difference

  10 June 2017, by Nikhil Chakravartty

  From N.C.’s Writings
  Against the backdrop of PM Narendra Modi’s visit to Russia and talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin the following two pieces that appeared in Mainstream in November-December 1973 on Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev’s visit to India at that time are being reproduced for the benefit of our readers.
  Brezhnev in India
  Seven weeks ago, laying the foundation of the refinery at Mathura, Smt Indira Gandhi referred to the Soviet offer of two-million tonnes of foodgrains (…)

• DVC Still to Compensate its Displaced: Quest for Justice Kept Alive

  10 June 2017

  by Krishna Jha
  On May 5, 2014, a letter was received by the Home Secretary, Government of Jharkhand, from the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India, stating that according to the Seventh Schedule of the Constitution, the State was responsible for taking steps to prevent, detect, register and investigate crime and prosecute the criminals through law-enforcing agencies; hence, steps must be taken in the context of inordinate delay, in fact more than six decades, in granting (…)

• These are Beefy Issues

  10 June 2017, by Kuldip Nayar

  The demolition of the Babri Masjid and the ban on cattle sale for slaughter are two sides of the same coin. They reflect the prejudice of the majority community. Both are fouling the air. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government, which completed three years in office just a week ago, is blessing the different expressions of Hindutva which is slowly but firmly engulfing the entire country.
  It looks as if the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has started its preparations for the next Lok (…)